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| RAND report dealing with policy making on the use of force in the US and Russia. Includes case studies for both countries. | |
| Collection of documents relating to British Labour history and early socialist movements. Includes information on the British tenants movement, tenant rent strikes, and Tom Maguire, one of the founders of the British Labour movement, and provides posters from riots and revolutions. | ||
| Collection of resources on British Labour history resources on the Web. Includes links to information on the Tolpuddle Martyrs, and working, health and living conditions during the industrial revolution, covering topics such as child labour, urban development, mining, and farming. | ||
| Graphical and numerical guide to presidential elections in the USA, showing voting trends and results. A news service detailing elections worldwide is also provided. | ||
| Details the sequence of events leading to the resignation of Richard M. Nixon as President of the United States in 1974. Provides a profile and timeline tracing the development of the scandal, and presents the articles of impeachment against the President and a number of important speeches from the period. These include Nixon's resignation address, and President Gerald Ford's subsequent pardon of his predecessor. Also features speculation on the identity of the contact responsible for passing information in the case to journalist Carl Woodward. | ||
| Over 140 entries that examine the struggle for parliamentary reform in Britain between 1700 and 1832. Topics include Parliament in the 18th Century, Radical Publishers and Reform, The Scottish Martyrs, and Reform of The Monarchy. | ||
| An international journal examining textual, cultural and political postcolonialisms. Contains articles, reviews and book titles on related topics. | ||
| Compilation of results of all post war UK General Elections, and a list of Cabinet members from the resulting administrations. Access to selected party manifestos is provided. | ||
| Traces the history of political cartoons in the US from the early nineteenth century onwards. Features samples of cartoons covering topics such as women's suffrage, the America First campaign of 1915, and Theodore Roosevelt as the personification of American imperialism. Also offers the complete Congressman Pumphrey satire on political corruption in 1907 Washington, and information on cartoonists such as Frederick Opper and Homer Davenport. | ||
| Biographies of over 50 members of parliament who had an important influence on British history. | ||
| Outlines significant legislation relating to Roosevelt's New Deal programme in the 1930s, and offers biographies of the prominent personalities involved. | ||
| Extensive links to presidential, gubernatorial, US Senate and Congress candidates and political parties across the spectrum, as well as election results and news. Covers all 50 US states, with illustrated political history articles, political issue debates, an online political bookstore and political memorabilia. | ||
| A collection of over 52,000 images which are free for educational use by the UK higher education community. The collection comprises images of textiles, paintings, ceramics, metalwork, Chinese and Japanese art, Indian art, furniture, glass, photography, sculpture, costume, theatre and manuscripts, Picture Post magazine images (covering social history in Britain from 1938 to 1957), six areas of British history (the Irish troubles, history of sport, women's history, development of the mass media, UK politicians and Labour history), with editorial input from academics, journalists and archivists, and images from the James Valentine collection (a postcard archive of photography over the past 100 years), plus items from the George Cowie and Robert Adam photographic collections. | ||
| Project which aims to develop a collaborative multimedia database of resources relevant to teaching and research on the Northern Ireland conflict. The CAIN server holds resources specific to the Northern Ireland 'Troubles' held within the partner institutions, elsewhere in the region, and in other countries. The CAIN Project is also a gateway to more general network resources on ethnic conflict. | ||
| Collection of audio materials relating to US politics and political history. Each resource is accompanied by name of speaker, date of delivery, subject, and, where available, a written transcript. Material can be browsed according to date, speaker, and title, or searched by keyword. | ||
| Comprehensive resource containing thousands of full text documents, articles, and links to Web pages concerning aspects of world and political history from the 12th century to the present day. | ||
| Biographical information on prominent individuals in the Labour Movement, including pre socialist writers, socialist writers and philosophers, and members of organisations such as the Fabian Society, the Social Democratic Federation, and the Labour Party. | ||
| Offers primary data chronicling the 1933 1945 Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, providing information on World War II and the Great Depression period. Photographic, sound, and video materials have been digitised and include images of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor. Also features information on diplomatic dealings between the United States and Germany and the Vatican prior to America entering World War II. | ||
| Offers biographies of prominent political figures in the USA including John Calhoun, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Harry S. Truman. Also features information on US political parties and pressure groups. | ||
| Full text of most of the Marxist documents written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. | ||
| Collection of audio materials relating to US politics and political history. Each resource is accompanied by name of speaker, date of delivery, subject, and, where available, a written transcript. Material can be browsed according to date, speaker, and title, or searched by keyword. | ||
| Searchable resource relating to European social, political, and economic history. Provides articles, government and key note documents, and book extracts. Organised by region as well as by topics such as colonialism, enlightenment, industrial revolution, Napoleonic wars, war and conflict, and agriculture. | ||
| Listing of political resources for almost every country in the world, with links to parties, organisations, government, media and results of recent elections, where available. | ||
| Collection of documents and photographs depicting the life of Bertrand Russell, a liberal thinker and philosopher. Biographical information concerning his parents, grandparents, childhood, family, friends, awards, and rise to fame is featured, together with an account of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament conducted in 1959. | ||
| Digitised collection of original American satirical cartoons drawn by Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904 1991) relating to World War II. All featured drawings were published in PM newspaper between 1941-1943. Material is arranged in chronological order. | ||
| Collection of resources concerning political philosophers and historical political movements. Includes full text political works, journal articles, and selected books, and covers the philosophies of ancient Greece, Christianity, Enlightenment, British Empiricism, Utilitarianism, and Socialism. Some material is in Italian only. | ||
| A selection of documents issued by Brazil's national government between 1821 and 1993. Includes presidential reports and messages, ministerial reports and issues of Almanak Administrativo, published annually by the Brazilian Royal Court between 1844 and 1889. Most information is in Portuguese. | ||
| Describes the background to, and conduct of, the controversial anti Communist investigations led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1940s and '50s. Offers biographies of informers, investigators, spies, and those blacklisted as a result of the investigation. | ||
| Virtual exhibition exploring the nature of Italian fascism in the early twentieth century. Includes digital reproductions of original documents and covers political, educational, social, and racial policies. | ||
| Image collection depicting posters and political artworks from riots, revolutionary movements, and popular struggles around the world. Presents graphics relating to Paris 1968, the Spanish revolution and civil war, the black power movement, and Irish republicanism. | ||
| Uses interviews, quotes, statistical data, and news reports to represent the political situation in Scotland, past and present. Features relevant aspects of Westminster, Scottish, and European Parliaments, as well as local government, with special sections on the Falkirk West and Anniesland by elections in 2000. Data comprises elections maps, and opinion polls, with political themes of the economy, nuclear bases, and the break up of the United Kingdom being explored. | ||
| Biographies of over 25 Chartists, and information on Chartism in relation to newspapers, art and legislation. | ||
| Aims to provide a continually developing collection of politically aware and representative materials, which span all areas of political persuasion and cultural representation. Location, preservation, promotion, and dissemination of ephemera in printed, recorded, visual, and in the oral traditions, is the key aim of the Centre, for the education of popular political expression worldwide. | ||
| Image collection depicting posters and political artworks from riots, revolutionary movements, and popular struggles around the world. Presents graphics relating to Paris 1968, the Spanish revolution and civil war, the black power movement, and Irish republicanism. | ||
| Traces the history of political cartoons in the US from the early nineteenth century onwards. Features samples of cartoons covering topics such as women's suffrage, the America First campaign of 1915, and Theodore Roosevelt as the personification of American imperialism. Also offers the complete Congressman Pumphrey satire on political corruption in 1907 Washington, and information on cartoonists such as Frederick Opper and Homer Davenport. | ||
| Archive of political commercials on radio and television. Over 56,000 items in a browsable catalogue presented online. Items date back to 1936. | ||
| Biographies of over fifteen Prime Ministers who held office between 1780 and 1900. | ||
| Charts the life of Oliver Cromwell (1599 1658). Discusses his parliamentary and military careers, outlines his religious views, and lists quotations by and about Cromwell. | ||
| Brief histories of ten British political parties and pressure groups, and the results of the twenty general elections between 1832 and 1918. | ||
| Record of the former British Prime Minister and the 1990 97 administration. Includes biographical information about John Major, content of speeches, photographs, and full text of the 1992 and 1997 Conservative Party General Election manifestos. | ||
| Searchable collection of images depicting political scenes in the US, also browsable by era or by topic including tolerance, abolition, civil rights, the Capitol and related buildings, and presidents. Each entry is accompanied by a brief description and keywords. | ||
| Information about legislation between 1700 and 1920, including the 1801 Act of Union, the 1804 Corn Laws, the 1882 Married Women's Property Act and the 1913 Cat and Mouse Act. | ||
| Aims to encourage research into the history of the European Communities, to promote public interest in the development of European integration and to ensure greater transparency in the functioning of the European institutions. Original European Community files, produced in Brussels and Luxembourg, have been deposited. In addition the Historical Archives also seek to acquire papers of European politicians or officials, or archives of European associations, parties and organisations that have played a crucial role in the creation of Europe. | ||
| List of documents relating to democracy, the fall of communism, and post communist Europe. Contains barometer surveys of New Russia, New Baltic, and New Korea, and abstracts of publications on topics such as economic enterprise and privatisation, social protection and poverty, and parties and elections. Provides a facility for ordering the full text of these articles online. | ||
| Collection of links to government and politics resources around the world. Resources are arranged by geographical region, then by country, and then by type. Also includes resources covering international and transnational issues and resources relating to political thought, ideology and theory. | ||
| Collection of photographs by photographer Fred Maroon, who was granted access to the Nixon Whitehouse for nine months in 1970 to take photos for a behind the-scenes book, and continued to document the administration over the next four years, culminating in the Watergate proceedings and Nixon's resignation. The photographs are grouped by chronological theme, including the re-election campaign, the Watergate hearings and the final days of the administration with explanatory text and quotes from a 1998 oral history interview with Maroon. Other features include an interactive timeline and notes on the exhibit. | ||
| A detailed examination of Victorian society, religion, philosophy, economics, literature and arts, politics, gender issues, and science. Also provides a list of links to related resources, with an emphasis on the literature and arts of the Victorian Britain. | ||
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