East Asia: Japan

Around 6,000 early twentieth century Topical Budget newsreels drawn from the British Film Institute and Imperial War Museums cover subjects ranging from the First World War, the Royal Family, and domestic and international politics through to sport, leisure and fashion. A major British newsreel of the silent era, Topical Budget reached a weekly audience of up to five million.

This resource contains the pamphlets held in the Charles W Wason Collection on East Asia, at Cornell University Library, published from 1750-1929. These give insights into Chinese culture, history, religion, everyday life and foreign relations.

This resource contains publications from the Church Missionary Society, Church of England Zenana Missionary Society and South American Missionary Society, covering themes of evangelism, conflict and colonialism from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries.

Records of the India Office, held at the British Library, chart the history of British trade and rule in the Indian subcontinent from 1599-1947: themes covered include imperial history, maritime trade, global commerce and the history of the world's first multinational corporation.

Delve into the theatrical world of eighteenth-century society and explore how the Larpent plays reflect the politics of the time, the role of women, views on race and religion, opinions on empire, and European and British history.

Unique and extremely rare eighteenth-century periodicals, each chosen to convey the eclecticism and evolution of the publishing world between 1685 and 1835. Highlights include a complete run of The Lady's Magazine, and rare titles missed out of other collections focused on the Eighteenth Century.

Presenting content from across the globe, this diverse and comprehensive resource features thousands of audio field recordings and interviews, educational recordings, film footage, field notebooks, slides, correspondence and ephemera from over 60 fields of study, including sites in West Africa, North America, South East Asia and more.

Revealing the voices and experiences of the men and women who served in the First World War, this rich and varied collection will be an invaluable source for anyone studying and researching the Great War. Material includes letters and diaries of service people, maps, photo albums, artwork, oral histories, official documents, newspapers, posters and much more, covering all aspects of the global conflict.

A wide range of primary source material, including printed and manuscript cookbooks, advertising ephemera, government reports, films and illustrated content. It reveals the evolution of food and drink within everyday life and the public sphere. The material in this collection has been sourced from across the globe to reflect a wide range of food cultures and traditions.

Discover the histories of fifteen key commodities that changed the world through a wide range of manuscript sources, rare books, maps, advertising memorabilia, paintings, photographs and ephemera. Explore themes of exploration and discovery; imperialism and attempts at monopoly, trade Wars, translocation and economic geography, slavery, mass production, luxury, taste and the evolution of global branding.

Primary sources on the history of tourism. Bringing together collections from multiple archives, including Thomas Cook, this resource presents an untapped multi-national perspective on the evolution of affordable tourism around the world.

Explore the history of illness, treatment and disease on international front lines from 1850 to 1949.

A selection of original documents that tell the story of European and Asian migration to North America, Australia and New Zealand during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Official records from governments, shipping lines and agencies are found alongside the letters, oral histories and diaries of the migrants themselves. The resource includes material on life for successive generations, refugees and displaced persons, and those who were transported as criminals.

This multi-archive resource covers the development of the modern Olympic Games from 1896 to 1992, telling the story of the world’s biggest sporting event through primary sources while shining a light on key social and political phenomena throughout the twentieth century. This resource provides a comprehensive documentary record of the history of the Olympic Games as well as the growing prominence and influence sport had over multiple aspects of culture, society, and politics (and vice versa) around the world between the 1890s and the 1990s.

Contains an extensive range of both rare and well-known wartime publications for soldiers serving in major theatres around the world. Publications are included from many key nations involved in the conflict, such as the US, Canada, New Zealand, India, Germany, and elsewhere in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Sourced from the British Film Institute (BFI), this collection of documentary, newsreel and feature films reveals the world as seen by Soviet, Chinese, Vietnamese, East European, and Latin American filmmakers. Ranging from the early 20th century to the 1980s, material encapsulates the themes of war, revolution, news, current affairs, culture and society.

Primary source material from hundreds of fairs, including London's Great Exhibition of 1851, American fairs of the 19th and 20th centuries and 21st century EXPOs. A vital resource for students, teachers and researchers of a huge range of subjects including imperialism, race relations, gender studies, science and technology, consumer culture, architecture and design.

This resource, drawn from The National Archives, UK, presents the files of the British legation and consulates in China. Covering a range of themes, the material includes correspondence, photographs, maps, newspapers, art and pamphlets, covering the history of China and its complex relations with Britain from 1830 to 1939.

Formerly restricted British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1919 and 1980.