View of a ruined castle at night. 1992.37.1.30 c. 1760 Gilpin, John Bernard, Capt. (1701-1776) Pen and wash on paper. "The Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage, Grasmere, UK" Material sourced from The Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage, Grasmere, UK 11-Sep-23 Adam Matthew Digital Limited
The NC State University Libraries now provides access to several collections of newspapers, primary accounts, government documents, and more, highlighting European history and culture from the 1500s to the present.
Providing a firsthand account of the daily lives, events, and debates that shaped 18th to early 20th century Britain, the British Library Newspapers highlight diverse regional attitudes, cultures, and vernaculars that were otherwise left uncaptured in the time period’s national press. With more than 240 newspaper titles, explore topics from working class movements and the industrial revolution to women’s advice columns.
London Low Life features on-the-ground accounts from the streets of London: slang dictionaries, cartoons, and street cries encompass working class culture and street life of the 19th century. The collection includes holdings from the Lilly Library and special collections at Indiana University, Bloomington.
The rest of the collections provide European perspectives on topics from colonization to imperialism, to daily life and culture.
The collections are:
Name | Link |
Newspaper Archive: Global collection | |
British Library Newspapers | https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/databases/british-library-newspapers |
Central Asia, Persia and Afghanistan, 1834-1922. From Silk Road to Soviet Rule | https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/databases/central-asia-persia-and-afghanistan-1834-1922 |
Apartheid South Africa 1948-1980 | https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/databases/apartheid-south-africa-1948-1980 |
Church Missionary Society periodicals | |
Confidential print, North America, 1824-1961 | https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/databases/confidential-print-north-america-1824-1961 |
Eighteenth century drama | |
Confidential print. Africa, 1834-1966 | https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/databases/confidential-print-africa-1834-1966 |
Confidential print. Latin America, 1833-1969 | https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/databases/confidential-print-latin-america-1833-1969 |
Confidential print. Middle East, 1839-1969 | https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/databases/confidential-print-middle-east-1839-1969 |
Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement & Colonial Encounters | |
The Grand Tour | |
Literary Manuscripts, Victorian Manuscripts from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg collection of The New York Public Library | |
Literary manuscripts. 17th and 18th century poetry from the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds | |
London Low Life | |
Macmillan cabinet papers, 1957-1963 | https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/databases/macmillan-cabinet-papers-1957-1963 |
Medieval family life | |
Medieval travel writing | |
Migration to new worlds: The century of immigration | |
Perdita manuscripts | |
Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape | |
Travel writing, spectacle and world history | https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/databases/travel-writing-spectacle-and-world-history |
Women in the National Archives | |
Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions in Victorian Britain | https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/databases/poverty-philanthropy-and-social-conditions-victorian-britain |
Early Modern England: Society, Culture and Everyday Life, 1500-1700 | |
East India Company, Module I: Series A-D. Trade, Governance and Empire, 1600-1947 | |
East India Company, Module II: Series G. Factory Records for South Asia and Southeast Asia, 1595-1830 East India Company, Module III: Series G. Factory Records for China, Japan and the Middle East, 1596-1870 Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings | |
East India Company, Module III: Series G. Factory Records for China, Japan and the Middle East, 1596-1870 | |
East India Company, Module IV, Series E, Correspondence: Early Voyages, Formation and Conflict | |
East India Company, Module V. Series E: Correspondence: Domestic Life, Governance and Territorial Expansion | |
Africa and the New Imperialism: European Borders on the African Continent, 1870-1914 | https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/databases/africa-and-new-imperialism |
Mass Observation Project, Module I: 1980s | https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/databases/mass-observation-project-1981-2009 |
Mass Observation Project, Module II: 1990s | https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/databases/mass-observation-project-1981-2009 |
Mass Observation Project , Module III: 2000s | https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/databases/mass-observation-project-1981-2009 |
Foreign Office Files for Japan, 1919-1952: Section I, 1931-1945 | https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/databases/foreign-office-files-japan-1919-1952 |
Questions about these resources can be sent to Emily Cox, Collections & Research Librarian for Humanities, Social Sciences, & Digital Media. Purchase suggestions can be submitted using our Suggest a Purchase form.
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