Colonialism
Empire On-Line offers archival and printed materials relating to the British Empire in Africa, Australasia, the Americas, Oceania, and South Asia.
Images of Colonialism largely consists of late-19th and early-20th century trade cards and illustrated European newspapers
Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820 includes personal writings by women related to the Habsburg Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the British, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, and United States Empires, and settler societies in the United States, New Zealand and Australia. To browse, open All Document Clusters.
Africa
African blue books of statistics, 1821-1953: Reports by colonial governors on the condition of their colonies.
Confidential print: Africa, 1834-1966 contains printed material, from single letters to large volumes, circulated to officials in the Foreign or Colonial Office, to the Cabinet, and to heads of British missions abroad. Nature and Scope
European colonialism in the early 20th century : German colonies to League of Nations mandates in Africa 1910-1929
HOLLIS Record
European colonialism in the early 20th century : Italian colonies in North Africa and aggression in East Africa, 1930-1939
HOLLIS Record
European colonialism in the early 20th century. Political and economic consolidation of Portuguese colonies in Africa, 1910-1929
HOLLIS Record
European colonialism in the early 20th century. French colonialism in Africa : from Algeria to Madagascar, 1910-1930
HOLLIS Record
South Asia
East India Company (1599 to 1947) offers India Office Records from the British Library. Contains royal charters, correspondence, trading diaries, minutes of council meetings, expedition reports, etc.
- Colonial discourses: series 3: colonial fiction, 1712-1933
- Curzon, India and empire: the papers of Lord Curzon (1859-1925) from the British Library, London
- The empire writes back: part one: Indian views on Britain and empire, 1810-1915, from the British Library, London
- India during the Raj: eyewitness accounts: diaries and related records describing life in India, 1712-1925
- India in the age of empire: the journals of Michael Pakenham Edgeworth (1812-1881) from the Bodleian Library, Oxford
- Indian newspaper reports, c. 1868-1942.
Digital Colonial Documents (India) offers census (1871-1901), East India Company documents, and personal reports.
Gazettes of India 1808, 1838- (incomplete)
India, Raj & Empire (1710-1947) includes diaries and journals, official and private papers, letters, sketches, paintings and original Indian documents containing histories and literary works. Scots played a central role as traders, generals, missionaries, viceroys, governor-generals and East India Company officials and the material is drown from manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland.