Colonial & Post-colonial Studies
All users on-campus; SOAS students and staff only off-campus
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Cambridge Histories Online
The complete Cambridge Histories series (some 270 volumes published since 1960) and some volumes in the New Cambridge Histories series
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House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
Access to sessional papers from the early 18th century to the early 21st centuries
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Times of India Digital Archive: 1838-2003
An easily searchable database of this major newspaper covering key events in the history of India and the British Empire. An excellent resource for political, social and cultural history.
On campus use / Off campus use
Web Resources
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Centre for South Asian Studies: film collection
Collection of mainly amateur films made in India and Pakistan from the 1920s to the 1940s -
Centre for South Asian Studies: audio collection
Digital recordings of interviews complementing the Centre’s film collection. Mainly in English, with some content in Hindi, Urdu etc. -
Colonial Film: moving images of the British Empire
Bibliographic archive of over 6,000 films dating from the 19 th to mid-20 th centuries. 150 are available to view online -
E-corpus
Collection of digitized texts from a consortium of French universities and academic institutions including material on French imperial interests and colonies -
National Archives
Public, personal and government records dating from the medieval period onward -
Medical history of British India
From the National Library of Scotland’s India Papers series – 44 documents on public health measures and disease prevention dating from 1868 to 1920 -
Political discourse: theories of colonialism and postcolonialism
Looks at English postcolonial and post-imperial literature in context. -
Reviews in History (Institute of Historical Research)
Search and browse book reviews on all topics by academics or experts in their field.