ONLINE PRIMARY SOURCES AND RELATED WEBSITES

Empire's Children: An online resource for tracing and telling family histories as they relate to the British Empire. The site accompanies the Channel Four television documentary.

Colonial Film: Detailed information on over 6000 films showing images of life in the British Empire. Over 150 films are available for viewing online. You can search or browse by country, date, topic, or keyword.

Institute of Commonwealth Studies: This research center at the University of London has dozens of useful links for researchers and students.

BBC Archive: An online archive of hundreds of film and radio recordings of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) dating back to the 1930s.

The Evolution of State and Politics in Colonial India © Professor Peter Robb, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Digital South Asia Library: Information about contemporary and historical South Asia including full-text documents, statistical data, electronic images, cartographic representations, and language instruction.

Project South Asia: A digital library of resources on South Asia for colleges and universities

The British Library: A catalogue of thousands of documents and scanned images relating to the British Empire from the library's vast collections.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Contains over 56,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and the British Empire from earliest times to the 2003. (access from LC server only.)

National Archives of India: The repository of the non-current records of the Government of India holding them in trust for the use of administrators and scholars. Originally the Imperial Record Department founded in 1891 and transferred to New Delhi in 1926.

Royal Geographical Society: Founded in 1830, the RGS has sponsored many missions of scientific and geographic exploration throughout the British Empire and other parts of the world (especially in sub-Saharan Africa the polar regions).

UK Gazettes Online: Official Newspapers from London, Edinburgh, and Belfast.

Royal Photographic Society: Founded in 1853 with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as patrons, the Society's mission today, as in 1853, is "to promote the Art and Science of Photography".

British Empire Links: Contains links to institutes, online courses, and data relating to the British Empire.

Institute for British and Irish Studies: An Internet clearinghouse run by the University of Southern California listing electronic resources in British and Irish Studies.

British Raj Bibliography: This site contains links to comprehensive bibliographies of modern South Asian history for graduate students at Oxford University and the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.

Victoria Research Web and Victorian Web both contain useful links for research on the British Empire.

Views of the Famine: A catalogue of English and Irish newspaper articles and illustrations relating to the Irish famine of 1845-49.

Portcullis: An electronic catalogue containing descriptions of around three million records from the archives of Parliament.

BOPCRIS: The British Official Publications Collaborative Information Reader Service is a web-based bibliographic database for records and publications between 1688 and 1995 with abstracts and digitised full-text versions of a limited number of documents.

Early English Books Online (EEBO): Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.

Eighteenth-century Collections Online (ECCO): Contains over 180,000 titles including books, pamphlets, essays, and broadsides published in Britain and abroad during the eighteenth century in English and other languages.

Gerritsen Collection: The largest online resource for documents and primary sources relating to women's history (access only from LC server).

Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: Documents relating to foreign policy of the Irish Free State between 1923 and 1932. This site is sponsored by the National Archives of Ireland, the Royal Irish Academy, and the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Ireland.

DIPPAM: Documenting Ireland: Parliament, People and Migration. An online virtual archive of documents and sources relating to the history of Ireland and its migraion experience from the late 18th to the late 20th centuries.

Convict Transportation Registers Database: This database sponsored by the Queensland State Library in Australia contains data from 1787 to 1867 compiled from the British Home Office (HO) records. You can find details for over 123,000 of the estimated 160,000 convicts transported to Australia in the 18th and 19th centuries including names, term of years, transport ships, and more.

ANZAC Commemorative Site: This official site of the Government of Australia Department of Veterans Affairs contains information about the Australian and New Zealand forces in the Dardanelles Campaign of the First World War. For other empire war memorials see the Somme Heritage Centre of Northern Ireland and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

High resolution images of British imperial architecture in India, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), Singapore, Penang (Malaysia), and various works in the "Moghul Style" (courtesy of Victorian Web).

Historical maps of India: Contains antique maps of British India; links to Internet sites related to British India.

British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia (BACSA): This UK organization raise funds to maintain British gravesites in South Asia and is a valuable resource for family research and historians of British India.

Rudyard Kipling Society: Photographs, biographical data, literary selections, and commentary from Anglo-India's greatest writer.

Harappa: Educational website with hundreds of articles, photos, lithographs, and postcards from British India.

Centre for First World War Studies: Academic center at the University of Birmingham dedicated to supporting scholarship and advancing knowledge about World War I.

Sources related to Imperialism: Imperialism: analyses, motives & attitudes, celebrations & objections; India under British rule.

Sources related to Islamic History: Sufism, Islamic nationalism, Islam & liberal democracy, Islam & 19th century European imperialism, maps.

Sources related to Nineteenth-century Britain: Radicalism, liberal reform, social class, Ireland, Victorian sensibility, Victorian literature.

Sources related to India since 1900: The Indian National Congress, Mahatma Gandhi, British policy in India in the 20th century.

Sources related to Decolonization: Retreat from Empire, the Non-Aligned Movement.

Sources related to general Indian History: The Mughal Empire, Western expansion, Indian nationalism, India since Independence, Pakistan since Independence.

Prof. Campion's other course directories of online resources: HIST 217 Modern South Asia, HIST 224 Modern Britain, HIST 400 Politics and Society Modern Ireland, HIST 450 The Victorians, HIST 450 The British Raj: India, 1857-1947