British Online Archives (BOA) is one of the UK’s leading academic publishers and online repositories. We have access to the following collections:
Apartheid Through the Eyes of South African Political Parties
BBC handbooks, annual reports and accounts, 1927-2002
BBC Listener Research Department reports, 1937-c.1950
British Government Information and Propaganda, 1939-2009
Colonial Africa in Official Statistics, 1821-1953
Colonial Law in Africa, 1808-1919
Colonial Law in Africa, 1920-1945
Colonial Law in Africa, 1946-1966
Communism and Popular Culture in the 20th Century
Communism Culture and Society in the 20th Century
Communisms and the Cold War, 1944-1986
Independent Labour Party Records, 1893-1960
Liverpool shipping records: imports and exports, 1820-1900
Prosecuting the Holocaust: British Investigations into Nazi Crimes, 1944-1949
Records from Bethlem Royal Hospital, 1559-1932
Reporting on Africa: Apartheid to Pan Africanism, 1949-1995
Slave trade records from Liverpool, 1754-1792
Slave trading records from William Davenport & Co., 1745-1797
Slavery through Time: from Enslavers to Abolitionists
The East India Company: Laying the Foundations
The East India Company: Corrupt Governance & Cruelty in India
Trade Unionism & the Chartist Movement, 1833-1910
Zimbabwe Under Colonial Rule in Government Reports, 1897-1980
**Additional trial access to the following collections is available during May-June 2025:
London Life, 1965-1966
Slavery, Exploitation, and Trade in the West Indies, 1759-1832
The Sphere, 1900-1964
Kenya Under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1907-1964**