Adam Matthew Digital

Frontier Life is a digital resource designed to enrich teaching and research, examining settlement, existence and interactions at the edge of the Anglophone world from 1650-1920. With a vast array of primary source material previously unavailable in digital form, this resource enables research into the many dynamics of frontier existence and its lasting influence across multiple regions. Primary sources from Canada include archives from the Glenbow Museum and the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives Library, Archives of Manitoba.
 

The access to the working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and his fellow writers, including Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey and Robert Southey. Includes verse manuscripts, printed manuscripts, prose manuscripts, printed verse, correspondence, diaries, travel journals, autograph albums, guide books, fine art and maps.

The primary source material for the study of the First World War, from personal narratives and printed books to military files, propaganda pamphlets and strong visual documents along with a range of contextual secondary material, including scholarly essays, case studies and interactive maps. Access to modules "Personal Experiences" and "Propaganda and Recruitment."

A resource on trans-Atlantic slavery and abolition brings together original manuscript and rare printed material from dozens of libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. Documents are presented alongside contextual essays contributed by leading academics in the field; each essay will have hypertext links to the primary sources it discusses. The project will encompass all the major themes, including: Slavery in the Early Americas; Urban and Domestic Slavery; Underground Railroad, and; Slavery Today, Legacy of Slavery.

A collection of manuscript materials for the study of medieval travel writing in fact and in fantasy. The main focus is accounts of journeys to the Holy Land, India and China. Featured authors include Ambassadors, Missionaries, Merchants, and Fantasists such as: Prester John; John of Plano Carpini, and; Marco Polo. The core of the material is a magnificent collection of medieval manuscripts from libraries around the world and dating from the 13th to the 16th centuries. These have been reproduced in colour where appropriate. These are augmented by an array of translations and supporting materials and interactive maps showing the routes of the travelers.

Mass Observation was a pioneering social research organisation whose papers provide insights into the cultural and social history of Britain from 1937 to 1965. This collection covers the end of the 'Hungry Thirties' when the impact of the Depression was still being felt; the onset of war, the Blitz and war on the home front, and; the post war world, with the rise of consumerism and television. Offers immediate and engaging evidence of major trends such as the increasing role of women in work, the birth of the welfare state, anti-Semitism and anti-communism, the growth of secularism and the increasing importance of radio, television and cinema in people's lives.

Colour digital images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to 18th, 19th and early 20th century London. It is designed for both teaching and study, from undergraduate to research students and beyond. In addition to the digital documents, London Low Life contains a wealth of secondary resources, including a chronology, interactive maps, essays, online galleries and links to other useful websites. This collection brings to life the teeming streets of Victorian London, inviting students and scholars to explore the gin palaces, brothels and East End slums of the nineteenth century's greatest city. From salacious swell's guides to scandalous broadsides and subversive posters, the material sold and exchanged on London's bustling thoroughfares offers an unparalleled insight into the dark underworld of the city. Children's chapbooks, street cries, slang dictionaries and ballads were all part of a vibrant culture of street literature. This is also an incredible visual resource for students and scholars of London, with many full colour maps, cartoons, sketches and a full set of the essential Tallis Street Views of London a unique resource for the study of London architecture and commerce. We also include George Gissing's famous London scrapbooks from the Pforzheimer Collection, containing his research for London novels such as New Grub Street and The Netherworld.

Collection of primary source documents spanning the 16^th through 20^th centuries pertaining to colonial history, politics, culture and society.

Empire Online contains a vast array of primary source documents, sourced from leading archives worldwide. Spanning five centuries (16^th – 20^th), the collection provides users with resources to explore colonial history, politics, as well as culture and society. Empire Online provides access to a broad range of document types, which are organized into fourteen main categories: exploration journals and logs; letter books and correspondence; periodicals; official government papers; travel writing; slave papers; memoirs; fiction; children’s adventure stories; traditional/ folk tales; exhibition catalogues and guides; maps; and marketing posters. Additionally, content is organized into five major thematic sections: Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969; Empire Writing & the Literature of the Empire; The Visible Empire; Religion & Empire; and Race, Class, Colonialism, Imperialism. Each of these major sections are accompanied by thematic essays—written by leading scholars—that directly relate to the primary documents. Users may refine searches by thematic section, source library, document type, and region. Advanced search feature also available.

Rare journals printed between c1685 and 1835 illuminating all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life. They offer effective coverage of the important issues of the period, and are invaluable to the study of all aspects of the eighteenth century, including crime, sport, advertising, the theatre; fashion; politics, revolution; agriculture; philosophy and religion; social issues and society life. Collection II concerns itself with British and European Literature, Theatre and popular entertainment, Politics and Religion, The American and French Revolutions, Popular morality and social life, Picturesque and Landscape, The origins and rise of Romanticism, and Exoticism and imperialism. Collection III includes Canadian, Caribbean and Indian journals to allow users to explore the ways in which major world events were reported in different areas of the globe. Collection IV concerns itself with any area of eighteenth century studies, including: the industrial revolution; radicalism; politics and government; literature (British and European), and; philosophy and religion. Collection V offer a complete run of one of the greatest periodicals of the age, The Lady's Magazine (1770 to 1832), as well as other relevant titles from the period.

Source materials from European archives intended for researching the humanities from a gendered perspective.

Defining Gender contains original source material from British and European archives for those studying history, literature, sociology, education, and cultural studies from a gendered perspective. Defining Gender is structured into five sections, each containing a substantial body original source material, together with thematic essays by leading scholars in the field: Conduct and Politeness; Domesticity and the Family, Consumption and Leisure; Education and Sensibility, and; The Body.