Here are some suggested databases you can use to begin exploring your individual topics
Suggested databases
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Adam Matthew - China, trade, politics & culture, 1793-1980This link opens in a new windowFeatures substantial collections of unique manuscript materials held at the library of the School of Oriental and African Studies and the British Library in London, supplemented by additional sources from Cambridge University Library, the Church Missionary Society Archive, the Council for World Missions Library, Duke University, the National Archives at Kew, the Alexander Turnbull Library at the National Library of New Zealand and Yale Divinity Library.
Adam Matthew Digital CollectionsThis link opens in a new windowContains a large range of digital primary sources from archives and curated collections around the world, spanning the arts and social sciencse and covering topics from Medieval manuscripts to 1960s ephemera.
Adam Matthew - Foreign office files for China 1919 - 1980This link opens in a new windowContains Foreign Office Files for China, 1949-1980, combined with eye-witness accounts, weekly and monthly summaries, annual reviews, reports and analyses with a synthesis of newspaper articles and conference reports, economic assessments and synopses on leading Chinese personalities.
Adam Matthew - Foreign Office Files for Southeast AsiaThis link opens in a new windowComprising FCO 15 and 25 class government papers from The National Archives, UK traces the substantial economic and industrial growth experienced by the region during this period. There is also extensive coverage of authoritarian regimes in the Philippines and Indonesia under Presidents Marcos and Suharto respectively; the establishment of Singapore as a major world port, and political and racial tensions in the region.
INFORMIT Database CollectionsThis link opens in a new windowProvides access to more than 80 databases covering a wide range of subjects. Content is sourced from publishers, associations and peak professional bodies, focuses on regional perspectives and has strong coverage of the Australian context.
Informit Abstract and Indexing CollectionsThis link opens in a new windowProvides access to databases covering a wide range of subjects. Content is sourced from publishers, associations and peak professional bodies, focuses on regional perspectives and has strong coverage of the Australian context.
Adam Matthew - Gender: Identity & Social ChangeThis link opens in a new windowDocuments the changing representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations from the nineteenth century to the present. This collection offers primary sources for the study of women's suffrage, the feminist movement, the men’s movement, employment, education, the body, the family, and government and politics.
Gale : Women's Studies Archive : Female Forerunners WorldwideThis link opens in a new windowWomen trailblazers, both individuals and organisations, who have impacted society through social reform, popular culture, healthcare and more. Largely focuses on the US, Britain, and Australia but regional coverage also extends to New Zealand, South Africa, Nigeria, Zambia, Philippines, Jamaica, Germany, India, Norway, Canada and China. The collections are sourced from a variety of prestigious institutions including the Smithsonian Institution; Library of Congress; Senate House Library, University of London; Royal College of Nursing; The National Archives at Kew, United Kingdom; State Library of New South Wales; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; London Metropolitan Archives; Amistad Research Center.
Suggested databases
Georgia
Adam Matthew - Empire OnlineThis link opens in a new windowProvides a digital resource for colonial history, politics, culture and society. Documents relate stories of the Empire from French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese and German points of view, and from Indigenous peoples of Africa, India and North America.
Adam Matthew - Migration to new worldsThis database documents European emigration to the United States, Canada, and Australasia during the 19th and 20th centuries (1800-1924). Digitised documents include personal diaries, letters, travel journals and scrapbooks supplemented by original maps, objects, emigration pamphlets, shipping papers and rare printed material. Includes: Module I: The Century of Immigration, Module II: The Modern Era.
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U.S. Intelligence on Asia 1945-1991This link opens in a new windowHolds declassified documentary records about the successes and failures of the U.S. intelligence community in the Far East during the Cold War (1945-1991). Particular emphasis is given to America’s principal antagonists in Asia during the Cold War era.
Gale: Primary SourcesThis link opens in a new windowProvides an interactive research environment that allows researchers to cross-search: 19th Century British Newspapers; 19th Century Collections Online; 19th Century U.S. Newspapers; Asia and the West : Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange; British Politics and Society; Daily Mail Historical Archive; Daily Mail Historical Archive; Economist Historical Archive; Europe and Africa : Commerce, Christianity, Civilization and Conquest; Evolution of flight 1784 - 1991; Financial Times Historical Archive; Illustrated London News Historical Archive; Listener Historical Archive; Nineteenth Century British Newspapers; Nineteenth Century Collections Online; Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers; Photography: The World Though the Lens; Science, Technology and Medicine 1780 - 1925; Smithsonian Collections Online; The Independent (London); The Independent Archive; The Independent on Sunday (London); The Making of Modern Law : Legal Treatises, 1800-1926; The Making of the Modern World; The Telegraph Historical Archive; Times Digital Archive; Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive TSL; U.S. Declassified Documents Online; Women : Transitional Networks; British Library Newspapers Part V; 18th Century Collections Online; Archives of Human Sexuality and Identity to discover and analyse content in new ways.