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Contains various visual and documentary primary sources, such as official and personal photographs, manuscripts, rare printed material, artwork, objects and film, Secondary sources include interactive maps, scholarly essays, and an illustrated chronology.
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.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.Ask Us
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This resource provides access to International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions & literal translations of aria and art song texts. The extensive IPA Source library has over 15,761 professionally translated and transcribed titles including texts of arias, art songs and liturgical texts in French, Italian, German, Spanish English, and Latin and represents works from 923 composers and 1,143 poets
Trial runs from 2/6-2/27
Database Trial: IPA Source
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