Trial Access to 19th Century British Periodicals : Series 2 : Empire
We have trial access to an electronic resource called 19th Century British Periodicals until 15 September 2011.
The database has been added to the
Database Trials page, but you can access
it
directly (if you are on campus or via EZProxy).
From the blurb:
19th Century UK Periodicals is a major multi-part
series which covers the events, lives, values and themes that shaped the 19th
century world. It is mainly based on the repositories of the British Library,
the National Library of Scotland, the National Library of South Africa, the
National Library of Australia, and many others.
South African titles include Cape Illustrated Magazine, Cape Monthly Magazine, Lantern, and Sam Sly's African Journal.
Great War Primary Documents Archive
This archive of primary documents from the Great War period is international and presents both primary and secondary documents between 1890 - 1930.
African Newspapers database now available
Researchers at UCT now have access to the African Newspapers collection from the World Newspaper Archive.
More than 40 nineteenth- and twentieth -century African newspapers are featured and include titles from Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique,
Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
Maps of Africa to 1900 available online
From the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, comes a digital collection, Maps of Africa to 1900.
"... this collection mines not only the Library’s map collections, but also
its extensive collection of 19th century atlases and geographical
journals, including the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society
(United Kingdom), the Bulletin de la Société de Géographie de Paris
(France), and Petermanns Geographische Mittheilungen (Germany)." Royal Naval Logs of Exploration now available
The Royal Navy logs of ships on exploration is now available online from the UK National Archives.
There are 164 volumes of logbooks of the Royal Navy's voyages of scientific discovery, from series ADM 55, now available to search and download.
Mostly kept by naval captains, masters, lieutenants and masters'
mates, the volumes offer a first-hand account of the day-to-day
activities of the exploration party, giving a picture of life aboard
ship. The information in the logs and journals was used by the
Hydrographic Office to produce charts and other data.
