Search across our historical sources

If you are studying History and like the convenience of an all in one search, you will be thrilled to discover that three of our major suppliers now offer a search across all their collections. This is a great feature which could help you unearth some unexpected treasures!

Click the links below for the cross-platform searches for all the primary historical sources we obtain from AM, Gale and ProQuest:

AM

Search across the AM (previously Adam Matthew) archives with a handy link to their Help Centre containing video tutorials, including:

• African American Communities
• Archives Direct
• Archives Direct: Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969
• Archives Direct: Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980
• Archives Direct: Foreign Office Files for Japan, 1919-1952
• China: Trade, Politics and Culture
• Early Modern England
• Empire Online
• First World War
• Food and Drink in History
• Gender: Identity and Social Change
• Indigenous Histories and Cultures
• Life at Sea
• London Low Life
• Mass Observation Online
• Mass Observation Project
• Migration to New Worlds
• Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975
• Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions in Victorian Britain
• Victorian Popular Culture

Gale Primary Sources

Search across all subscribed Gale Primary Sources including the Chatham House Chatham House Archive 1920-2008 and all other Gale archives except for the State Papers:

• Archives of Sexuality and Gender
• Archives Unbound
• Associated Press Collections Online
• British Library Newspapers
• Crime, Punishmnent, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920
• Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1903-2000
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online
• 19th Century US Newspapers
• 19th Century UK Periodicals
• 17th and 18th Centuury Burney Newspapers Collection
• Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive
• The Economist Historical Archive
• Thee Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003
• Thee Telegraph Historical Archive
• The Times Digital Archive
• US Declassified Documents Online

ProQuest

Search across all our subscribed ProQuest databases, including:

• Art & Architecture Archive‎ (1860 – 2005)
• British Periodicals‎ (1681 – 1939)
• Coronavirus Research Database‎
• Country Life Archive‎ (1897 – 2005)
• Early Modern Books‎
• Early English Books Online‎
• Early European Books‎
• Ebook Central‎
• Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive‎ (1880 – 2015)
• Global Newsstream‎ (1980 – current)
• Canadian Newsstream‎
• Global Breaking Newswires‎
• International Newsstream‎
• Asian Newsstream‎
• Australia & New Zealand Newsstream‎
• European Newsstream‎
• Latin American Newsstream‎
• Middle East & African Newsstream‎
• African Newsstream‎
• Middle East Newsstream‎
• Middle Eastern newspapers
• U.S. Newsstream‎ (1980 – current)
• CBS News 60 MINUTES‎
• U.S. Hispanic Newsstream‎
• U.S. Major Dailies‎ (1980 – current)
• Los Angeles Times‎ (1985 – current)
• New York Times‎ (1980 – current)
• The Wall Street Journal‎ (1984 – current)
• The Washington Post‎ (1987 – current)
• U.S. Midwest Newsstream‎
• U.S. North Central Newsstream‎
• U.S. Northeast Newsstream‎
• U.S. South Central Newsstream‎
• U.S. Southeast Newsstream‎
• U.S. West Newsstream‎
• The Harper’s Bazaar Archive‎ (1867 – current)
• John Johnson Collection: An Archive of Printed Ephemera‎
• Periodicals Archive Online‎
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chinese Newspapers Collection‎
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Guardian and The Observer‎ (1791 – 2003)
• Historical news – newspaper articles
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: South China Morning Post‎ (1903 – 2001)
• Publicly Available Content Database‎
• The Vogue Archive‎
• Women’s Magazine Archive‎ (1922 – 2005)
• The Women’s Wear Daily Archive‎