Library & Cultural Services: History: Social and Cultural History

Social and Cultural History

Australian Women's Weekly
Digitised archive of the Australian Women's Weekly from 1933 to 1982.

British periodicals
British Periodicals provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images. The Library has access to Parts I, II, III and IV.
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Crime, punishment & popular culture
Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920 from Gale is a digital archive comprising more than 2 million pages of original source material. Useful for the study of nineteenth century crime and criminal justice, popular culture, social history, legal history, and literature.
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Ebony magazine archive
Ebony has been a leading African-American magazine since publication commenced in 1945. It focuses on news & stories important to the Black community in the US.
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Internet Archive Magazine Rack
Huge collection of free digitised magazines. Many on computing & gaming, but also covering hobbies, popular culture, women's magazines, etc.

Mass observation online
This resource offers revolutionary access to one of the most important archives for the study of social history in the modern era (1937-1956). Explore original manuscript and typescript papers created and collected by the Mass Observation organisation, as well as printed publications, photographs.
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Mass Observation Project
Launched in 1981 by the University of Sussex as a rebirth of the original 1937 Mass Observation, its founders' aim was to document the social history of Britain by recruiting volunteers to write about their lives. Still growing, it is an important source for qualitative social data in the UK.
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Observing the 1980s
This resource brings together ‘voices’ from both the Mass Observation and the British Library Oral History collections. This material offers a unique and inspiring insight into the lives and opinions of British people from all social classes and regions during the 1980s.

Screenonline
Devoted to the history of British film and television, and to Britain's social history as revealed by film and television, the site features video clips from the collections of the BFI Archive, alongside stills, posters and press books, and recorded interviews with film and television personalities.
Vogue archive
A searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution colour page images. Pages, advertisements, covers and fold-outs are included, with rich indexing enabling researchers to find images by garment type, designer and brand names.
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Women's magazine archive
An archive of the backfiles of leading women's interest consumer magazines, from the late-19th century through to 2005. Issues are scanned in high-resolution colour, with non-article items such as advertisements included, and feature detailed article-level indexing.
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