Points to the Past: Gale Digital Archives (Free access within BC only)Includes:
Gale Artemis: Primary Sources
... wide array of primary source material from the 17th, 18th & 19th centuries, including Indigenous Peoples: North America.
Chatham House Online Archive
... publications and archives of the Royal Institute of International Affairs is a multi-disciplinary resource bringing a 20th and 21st century world perspective to researchers and students.
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive
... historical archive that embraces the scholarly study of slavery in a comprehensive, conceptual, and global way.
State Papers Online, 1509-1714
... gathers together 16th- and 17th- century British State Papers and links these rare historical manuscripts to their fully text-searchable calendars.
Gale NewsVault
... delivers single-point access to Gale’s ever-growing collection of historical newspapers and periodicals — currently more than 12 million digitized facsimile pages from newspapers and periodicals around the world.
British Literary Manuscripts Online
... hundreds of thousands of pages of rare manuscripts, poems, plays, essays, novels, diaries, journals, correspondence, and other manuscripts from the year 1100 through the Victorian era.
Declassified Documents Reference System
... provides direct information on the critical policies and events of post World War II era, including reports from Cabinet meeting minutes, National Security Council policy statements, CIA intelligence studies, presidential conferences, State Department political analyses, and Joint Chiefs' papers.