Welcome to British Online Archives from Microform Academic Publishers

Microform Academic Publishers' online gateway to British archives builds on a tradition of over fifty years at the forefront of archival preservation and publishing in Britain. Our intention is to provide scholars with remote access to entire primary sources for the purpose of academic study and research across many disciplines in humanities and social sciences, including: minutes of political parties; reports of national institutions; official government publications; commercial archives relating to the Industrial Revolution, the slave trade or colonisation; the papers of individuals prominent in the history of Britain and its Empire during the modern era; the Communist Party of Great Britain, missionary, naval and other records relating to Africa, Asia and the Americas. Files from most collections are freely accessible as examples, giving you an impression of the range of resources available and of the quality of the images.

The digitised collections which comprise this website are drawn both from recently scanned or microfilmed manuscripts and archives and from our extensive catalogue of publications. Individual access accounts from £15.00 for one week or from £35.00 for five weeks or more.

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Wesleyan-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...)

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...)

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