Digitized primary sources
- Women and Social Movements, International - 1840 to Present This link opens in a new window
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An archive of digitized primary documents and teaching tools on International Women and Social Movements. Covers 1840 - current. - Women Writers Online This link opens in a new window
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Search through the texts by pre-Victorian women writers, 1400-1850. - Women's Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
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A fully digitized archive of the backfiles of several major North American women's magazines, including Better Homes and Gardens, Chatelaine, Cosmopolitan, Essence, Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, Parents, Redbook, Seventeen, WIN News, and Woman's Day. Coverage varies by publication and ranges from 1886 through 2005. - Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
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Search across newspapers and digitized collections of primary sources from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, including ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online, NCCO: Nineteenth Century Collections Online, The Making of the Modern World, The Times of London, The Illustrated London News, the Times Literary Supplement, The Economist, and many more. Covers 1604 - present (varying by source). - NCCO: Nineteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
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A rich collection of primary sources created or published in the nineteenth century.
- Digital South Asia LibraryIncludes dictionaries, colonial maps, gazetteers, images, Statistical Abstracts, and gramophone recordings (and more) dating back to the 19th century.
- The Times of India via ProQuest Historical Newspapers
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Content from Bombay Times/Times of India, dating from 1838 to about 10 years ago.
- Readex AllSearch This link opens in a new window
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Search across all of Carleton's Readex collections at once. Includes Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports, U.S. Congressional Serial Set, and World Newspaper Archive (South Asian Newspapers)
- Centre of South Asian Studies: oral history collectionA collection of interviews conducted in the 1970s and 1980s with both Indian and British people describing their experiences of life in British India, the events leading up to independence in 1947 and the early years of independent India and Pakistan.
- SAADA: South Asian American Digital ArchiveA growing collection of images, letters, oral histories and other archival material about or from South Asian Americans. Most is from the early- to mid-20th century and is in english, and often includes information related to the history of South Asia.
Film
- Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
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A comprehensive streaming video collection including documentaries, newsreels, theater, musical performances, and much more from across the disciplines.
- Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire [ca. 1897-1993](searches metadata, very few actual digitized films)
Search or browse through films depicting life in the British colonies. Of the films that are cataloged here, many have extensive critical notes written by scholars, and about a third are available to watch online. - "India" - British Pathé Films [ca. 1896-1958] (YouTube)[NOTE: This is just a sample search for the keyword "india" -- try others!]
Before television, people came to movie theatres to watch the news. Over the course of a century, it documented everything from major armed conflicts and seismic political crises to the curious hobbies and eccentric lives of ordinary people. If it happened, British Pathé filmed it. - BFI: India on Film [1899-1947]The British Film Institute released recently digitized films of colonial India on YouTube. Most are back and white silent recordings of city/village life, or events like weddings or royal processions.
- BFI: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Tibet (1899-1970)Playlist with 16 short digitized films of British people traveling across the countries.
Sample searches in Catalyst
- Subject (contains) India women biographies**Note: don't use /Indian/ - that will get you results about Native Americans!
Primary Sources in Catalyst
- SOURCES (try this first!)Any field (contains) slave*
subject (contains) sources
HINT: Also try the keyword "Documents": Any field (contains) slave* AND documents - BIOGRAPHIESSample advanced search: Any field (contains) lesbian* + subject (contains) biography
- PERSONAL NARRATIVESSample advanced search: Any field (contains) lesbian* + subject (contains) personal narratives
- DIARIESSample advanced search: Any field (contains) lesbian* + subject (contains) diaries
- NEWSPAPERSSamples advanced search: Any field (contains) lesbian* + subject (contains) newspapers
- CONTROVERSIAL LITERATURESample advanced search: Any field (contains) wom*n + subject (contains) controversial literature
- CORRESPONDENCE (i.e. letters)Sample advanced search: Any field (contains) slave* + subject (contains) correspondence
- TEXTSSample advanced search: Any field (contains) slave* + subject (contains) texts
- PICTORIAL WORKSSample advanced search: Any field (contains) slave* + subject (contains) pictorial works
