SubjectsPlus: HIST 354 Modern European Women

Historical Abstracts
Historical coverage of  the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Articles from 1800 jouranls are indexed, same dating back to 1955.

Humanities International Complete
Full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,300 journals and more than 2.9 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 1,200 journals.

JSTOR
An archive of more than 1200 core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Fulltext back to their date of first publication to within the current 2-5 years.

ebrary
ebrary's Academic Complete is a growing ebook collection offering online, full-text access to over 70,000 titles in all academic subject areas.

Colonial Discourses - Series 1: Women, Travel & Empire, 1660-1914
Print Location: Microfilm PN 6071 W72 C64 1998
A microfilm collection of early travel accounts by women and women's experiences in India, Africa, Australasia, and Canada. Focus on British women writers.
Guide to the collection: http://library.truman.edu/microforms/colonial_discourses.asp

Defining Gender, 1450-1910

A digitized collection focusing on many aspects of gender, sexuality and culture in Great Britain. The wide range of original sources include ephemera, pamphlets, commonplace books, diaries, periodicals, letters, ledgers, manuscript journals, poetry, receipt books and conduct and advice literature. The collections and contextual essays by leading scholars are grouped into these five main themes:

• Conduct and Politeness
• Domesticity & the Family
• Consumption & Leisure
• Education & Sensibility
• The Body

Parish Register Typescripts
Print Location: Microfilm CD 1068 A2 C53 1969
This collection has two parts. One part is the Parish Register Typescripts (Microfilm CD 1068 A2 C53 1969). This part contains copies of church records--marriages, baptisms and burials--from the 16th to the 19th centuries from parishes in London, the Midlands and Southern counties of England.

Guide: http://library.truman.edu/microforms/parish_register_typescripts.asp

The other part is Parish Records, Churchwarden Accounts and Vestry Minutes. (Microfilm CD 1068 A2 P3).  It is a microfilm of a manuscript.  It has no guide.

Times (London) Digital Archive 1785-2008
The Times Digital Archive is an online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of The Times, one of the most highly regarded resources for the 19th – 20th Century history detailing every complete page of every issue from 1785.

*Note: full text of articles from current issues of The Times are avaialbe in these databases: 
LexisNexis Academic
Newspaper Source

Working Class Autobiographies from the British Library, London
Print Location: Microfilm HD 8393 A1 W67 1986
This collection is based upon The autobiography of the working class: an annotated critical bibliography edited by John Burnett, David Vincent, and David Maynell and reflects the rich variety of life and personal experience of the nineteenth century working class in Great Britain selected from autobiographies from the British Library, London.  Part One contains 103 different works and extracts from individual autobiographies for the period 1792-1889, and Part Two contains 65 different works and extracts from individual autobiographies for the period 1890-1920. These autobiographies include military and maritime adventures, spiritual memoirs, thieves tales, and accounts of self-improvement and the pursuit of knowledge.