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Foreign Office Files for China, 1918-1980
Publication coverage: 1919-1980
The complete Foreign Office Files concerning China, Hong Kong and Taiwan for the period 1919-1980.Foreign Office Files for India Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980
Publication coverage: 1947-1980
This collection of files from the Foreign Office (later the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) and Dominions Office focuses on the political and social history of India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.Foreign Office Files for Japan
Publication coverage: 1931-1952
Foreign Office Files for Japan consists of digitized files from the British Foreign Office regarding Japan.Foreign Office Files for the Middle East, 1971-1981
Publication coverage: 1971-1981
Foreign Office Files for the Middle East consists of digitized files from the British Foreign Office regarding the Middle East.
Fossilworks provides query, download, and analysis tools that utilize the Paleobiology Database's large relational database assembled by hundreds of paleontologists from around the world. The two websites and their predecessors have been used by professional researchers, students, and the public since 1998. The Fossilworks copy is refreshed daily. The data are owned by the contributors and the website and software were created by John Alroy. The site is housed at Macquarie University.
Publication coverage: 1855-1922
Weekly, illustrated newspaper published by Frank Leslie that combined stories about politics, art, science, travel, and war, as well as literature.Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement & Colonial Encounters
Publication coverage: 1650-1920
Frontier Life is a collection of primary source documents, videos and other information pertaining to the life on various frontiers that arose from the movements of Europeans to Africa, Australasia and North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.