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Welcome to British Online Archives from Microform Academic Publishers
Microform Academic Publishers offers scholars and academics the primary sources to advance their research within the humanities and social sciences. This online archive enables users to access our unique resources from any location with internet access. The archive has a wide range of items to interest those researching territories colonised by Britain including: America, India, Africa, the West Indies, New Zealand, Australia and Melanesia. Documents include records made by the East India Company and the records of missionaries from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. The collection contains a range of sources that relate to both politics and history, these range from the Parliamentary Labour Party papers and the Anti-fascist newsletters of the International Transport Workers' Federation to the records of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and on to The British Union of Fascists’ newspapers and secret files. Our documents include British Broadcasting Corporation records and trade directories alongside further content to be found by selecting the ‘List Collections’ option on the above menu. Samples of most collections are freely available and you can feel confidence in using these services which are provided by a company with over fifty years of archival preservation and publishing experience. To buy a licence to access any of the digitised collections on BOA, including both institutional and individual user accounts, visit our online shop. The digitised collections which comprise this website are drawn both from recently scanned or microfilmed manuscripts and archives and from our extensive catalogue of microform publications.
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Jamaican material in the Slebech papers
Part 4 of the BOA series: British records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900. This collection comprises a careful selection of documents from the extensive Slebech Estate archives now held in the... (more...)
The papers of Sir Mark Sykes, 1879-1919 : the Sykes-Picot Agreement & the Middle East
Born in 1879, an only son, Sir Mark Sykes succeeded his father in 1913 as 6th Baronet with large estates in Sledmere, East Yorkshire. By then he had already distinguished himself... (more...)
Australian records in the USPG archive
This collection of C series records (C/AUS), along with selected volumes from the series of copies of letters sent and received (CLR & CLS), consists of files relating to the establishment... (more...)
Parliamentary Labour Party papers, 1968/69-1993/94
The Parliamentary Labour Party is the organisation of Labour members of Parliament (MPs) founded in 1906. Included in this collection are all the minutes of the Party Meetings, the Liaison Committee... (more...)
Papers relating to the Jamaican estates of the Goulburn family of Betchworth House
Part 5 of the BOA series: British records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900. These documents deal with the history of Amity Hall plantation, a sugar estate in Vere Parish, Jamaica, and... (more...)
New Zealand & Polynesian records in the USPG archive
This collection comprises the C series records relating to the early history of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia (C/NZ), along with selected volumes from the series of... (more...)
Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist periodicals
Although Methodism has come to be associated most closely with the Protestant Christian denomination founded by John Wesley (1703-1791), the term was already current in the seventeenth century, encompassing a number... (more...)
Anti-fascist newsletters of the International Transport Workers' Federation
These two newsletters published fortnightly by the ITF (i.e. Internationale Transportarbeiter Foederation) between 1933 and 1945. Based on analyses of other newspapers of the day, the editorial policy was to give... (more...)
South Asian records of the USPG
The documents in this resource come from the archives of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG). Some are true archives, arising from the work of... (more...)
The correspondence of Arthur C. Murray, 3rd Viscount Elibank
This correspondence is of interest to historians chiefly for the light it casts upon Anglo-American relations and the foreign policy of Franklin D Roosevelt. Arthur Murray was a Scottish Liberal MP... (more...)
BBC Listener Research Department, 1937-c.1950
The "Audience Research Reports of the BBC", covering the period 1937-c.1950, present the early research of the British Broadcasting Corporation's pioneering Listener Research Department (LRD) into wireless listening in Britain nationwide... (more...)
Universities' Mission to Central Africa
The UMCA was founded in the late 1850s, after the return of Dr David Livingstone from the region in 1857. This "high church" Anglican society drew its missionaries initially from the... (more...)
Records relating to the slave trade at the Liverpool Record Office
Part 1 of the BOA series: British records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900. These primary sources preserved at the Liverpool Record Office constitute one of the best collections in British archives... (more...)
South American Missionary Society records, 1844-1919
Part 8 of the BOA series: British records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900. Includes most of the material held in the SAMS archives for the period up to 1919. When originally... (more...)
The archives of the Associates of Dr Bray to 1900
Part 12 of the BOA series: British records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900. The body of records consists primarily of correspondence files, minute books and financial reports for the institution established... (more...)
BBC handbooks, annual reports and accounts, 1927-2001/2
This collection, covering 1927-2001/2, includes all the handbooks, annual reports and accounts published by the British Broadcasting Corporation during the 20th century.
In addition to financial data relating to the BBC's... (more...)
Journal, annual sermons and reports of the SPG, 1701-1870
Part 7 of the BOA series: British records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900. This collection offers a range of documents which reveal details of the lives the missionaries of the USPG... (more...)
David Irving's private research collection
David Irving is a British historian of World War II. He achieved notoriety when he was accused of Holocaust denial, particularly after 1996, following the unsuccessful attempt to clear his name... (more...)
Papers of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies, 1694-1709
Part 6 of the BOA series: British records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900. The Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies, better known as the Darien Company, was created... (more...)
Ecclesiastical, court and land records in the Manchester Cathedral archives
Manchester Cathedral is one of only a handful of Anglican cathedrals that hold their own archives on site. Dating from 1361 to the present day, its archives cover the parish functions... (more...)
Collected papers of the Bolton Whitman Fellowship
Part 13 of the BOA series: British records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900. Regarded as the father of American poetry, Walt Whitman (1819-1892) maintained an active correspondence with this obscure group... (more...)
Liverpool street and trade directories, 1766-1900
Part 9 of the BOA series: British records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900. The city's importance began to grow following Parliament's decision in 1698 to end London-based Royal African Company's official... (more...)
The Indian papers of Colonel Clive and Brigadier-General Carnac, 1752-1774
The papers of two leading actors in the East India Company in mid-18th century Bengal from the National Library of Wales. Chiefly in English, but with an array of original correspondence... (more...)
The Indian papers of the 4th Earl of Minto
The papers of Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, the 4th Earl of Minto, (1845-1914), Viceroy of India between 1905 and 1910, cover a period of dramatic and momentous change in the history of... (more...)
The British Union of Fascists : newspapers and secret files
On Thursday the 23rd of May 1940, after a lengthy period of surveillance by the security services, Sir Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists (BUF) which he... (more...)
Dissertations read to the Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh
Founded in 1737, this is the oldest student society of its kind in the United Kingdom, whose members were duty-bound to deliver a dissertation for examination by their peers.
This collection... (more...)
The Canadian papers of the 4th Earl of Minto
Part 14 of the BOA series: British Records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900. The Canadian Papers of the 4th Earl of Minto (1845-1914) are an important collection of documents that cover... (more...)
Early colonial and missionary records from West Africa
Part 10 of the BOA series: British records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900. This resource comprises selected documents from a number of different microfilm collections, including: early Gold Coast records from... (more...)
West Indies material in the archives of the USPG, 1710-1950
Part 11 of the BOA series: British records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900. Founded in 1701 to act as the spearhead of the Anglican Church overseas, the SPG was initially active... (more...)
War diaries from the Imperial War Museum : the Great War
The last known First World War combat veteran died in May 2011 and the last known First World War service veteran died in February 2012 (the year of writing). However, the... (more...)
American material in the archives of the USPG, 1635-1812
Part 2 of the BOA series: British records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900. The importance of the material in this collection from historical research lies not merely in their religious content,... (more...)
Gold Coast records from the archives of the USPG, 1886-1951
As outlined in the short history entitled The beginning of Africanisation : the dawn of the missionary motive in Gold Coast education by F.L. Bartels, the SPG's mission was originally... (more...)
The Meerut Conspiracy Trial, 1929-1933
Part 1 of the BOA series, People & Protest in Britain and Abroad, 1800-2000.
On 20 March 1929, thirty-one people, suspected of either communist or trades unionist affiliations, were arrested across... (more...)
