History

The Library provides access to an extensive range of digitised archives, most of which allow you to search through archival collections of primary sources on your topic by keyword, or to browse by subject area or the source of the collection.  

You can see the full list of digitised archives available from publishers by going to the Database A-Z and selecting ‘Archives’ as the item type.  

Access the following digital archive collections via the AM Explorer interface:

• China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980
• Confidential Print: Middle East 1839-1969
• Defining Gender 1450-1910
• East India Company Modules I, II and III
• Eighteenth Century Journals Portal Sections I, II and III
• Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings
• Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980
• Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980
• Global Commodities
• India, Raj and Empire
• Literary Manuscripts Berg
• Mass Observation Online
• Migration to New Worlds Module I
• Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape
• Victorian Popular Culture Modules I, II and III

The University of Sheffield Library provides access to an extensive range of resources to support learning and research, but there may be occasions when you need to find and access material held at other institutions - particularly for the extended research you may be doing for your dissertation or thesis.