Have You Met Adam Matthew (Digital) Yet?

The Harvard Libraries have acquired several digital collections from the UK publisher, Adam Matthew Digital, and since these collections seem likely to be of interest to many researchers in my areas of liaison, I'd like to make sure you know about them. They include:

China, Trade, Politics & Culture, 1793-1980: Sources from the School of Oriental and African Studies and the British Library, London: a project that provides a wide variety of original source material detailing China’s interaction with the West from Macartney’s first Embassy to China in 1793, through to the Nixon/Heath visits to China in 1972-74;

Defining Gender Online: Five Centuries of Advice Literature for Men and Women (1450-1910): ten thousand images of original documents focusing on advice literature for men and women;

Empire On-Line: provides access to images of original documents and printed materials relating to the British Empire in Africa, Australasia, the Americas, Oceania, and South Asia;

India, Raj and Empire: drawing upon the manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland, this searchable online resource provides access to digital facsimiles of diaries and journals, official and private papers, letters, sketches, paintings and original Indian documents containing histories and literary works. The collection documents the relationship between Britain and India in an empire where the Scots played a central role as traders, generals, missionaries, viceroys, governor-generals and East India Company officials. The dates of the documents range from 1710 to 1937;

Macmillan Cabinet Papers On-Line: provides online access to nearly 30,000 images of original documents from the Macmillan administration (January 1957-October 1963) as well as materials from the first three months of the Douglas-Home administration (October-December 1963); and

Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007: a portal for slavery and abolition studies, bringing together documents and collections covering an extensive time period 1490-2007, from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world.

If you take a look, you'll see what extraordinary resources they can be to support your research and teaching. Hope this information is useful!

At your service,
Cheryl