Digital Archives

North America: 

Colored Conventions Project, and Community Contributors. “Black Digital Humanities Projects & Resources(Opens in new window).” Google Drive, 2017. 

Gallon, Kim. The Black Press Research Collective(Opens in new window). Teaching resources, research fellowships and a links to a broad range of digitised archives covering the African-American press, contemporary and historical. 

Pyle, Kai Minosh.Gaa-Ozhibii’igejig: Writing published by 19th century Anishinaabe people.(Opens in new window) Includes open-access, full text editions of works by Jane Schoolcraft, Peter Jones, George Copway, Maangwedaas and many other Indigenous American authors. 

Caribbean: 

Legacies of British Slavery(Opens in new window). Landmark project by University College London researchers led by Prof. Catherine Hall which includes a database of all the individuals who received compensation from the British state for their loss of property after the abolition of slavery. Also includes teaching resources and projects on the legacies of British slavery in the Caribbean more broadly. 

Aljoe, Nicole, and Elizabeth Maddock Dillon. East Caribbean Digital Archive(Opens in new window). Boston: Northeastern University, 2017. 

Digital Library of the Caribbean(Opens in new window). Gainesville, FL: University of Florida, 2011. 

Gil, Alex, and Community Contributors. “Directory of Caribbean Digital Scholarship Data Sheet(Opens in new window).” Google Drive, 2020. 

Hawthorne, Walter, et al. Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade(Opens in new window), 2018. 

South America: 

Hayward, Jennifer and Michelle Prain Brice The Anglophone Chile(Opens in new window) project includes digital surrogates of many anglophone newspapers published in Chile. 

Africa: 

Centre for Curating the Archive, University of Cape Town. The Digital Bleek and Lloyd(Opens in new window). Notebooks, drawings, stories by Khoisan people collected by Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd. Notes on the Indigenous contributors also included. 

Vokes, Richard. “History in Progress Uganda, Part 1: The Ham Mukasa Archive (EAP656)(Opens in new window).” In Endangered Archives Programme. London: British Library, 2013-14. 

Wahu-Mũchiri, Ng’ang’a. Ardhi Initiative: An Africana Digital Humanities Project(Opens in new window) Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2020. 

Wisnicki, Adrian S., and Megan Ward, eds. Livingstone Online(Opens in new window). New version, second edition. College Park, MD: University of Maryland Libraries, 2017. 

Wisnicki, Adrian S., ed. One More Voice.(Opens in new window) Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska-Lincoln. New dawn edition, 2021-22. 

Australasia and the Pacific: 

The Papers Past(Opens in new window) archive of Maori and English newspapers published by the National Library of New Zealand also has great nineteenth-century coverage. 

The ERC-funded SouthHem(Opens in new window) archive of library and book catalogue from the Australian, New Zealand and southern African British settler colonies, 1780-1870 is a terrific resource for anyone interested in book history. Project led by Prof. Porscha Fermanis and based at University College Dublin. 

School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Missionary Collections.(Opens in new window) 

The Trove(Opens in new window) archive of digitised  historical Australian newspapers published by the National Library of Australia has a very comprehensive nineteenth-century section. 

India: 

Singh, Amardeep. Corpus of Colonial South Asian Literature(Opens in new window). 

Black and Indigenous Britain: 

The African People’s Historical Monument Foundation: The Black Cultural Archives.(Opens in new window) A wealth of information on Black British history and experience. 

Bristol Archives, and Bristol Museum & Art Gallery. British Empire & Commonwealth Collection(Opens in new window). Bristol, UK: Bristol Archives, 2020.  

The George Padmore Institute(Opens in new window) has materials relating to black British and European resistance and anti-racist history and activism.  

Rice, Tom. Films for the Colonies(Opens in new window). University of St Andrews: 2020.