Our collections

The Social History Archive collections

The Social History Archive comprises more than 2,700 different datasets with over 375 million digitised images of original records and 3.5 billion transcriptions and indexes. Plus, ...you’ll find more than 40 million newspaper pages from over 1,000 different publications. This enormous digital archive has been created over decades in partnership with many of the world’s leading record repositories and publishers.

To address specific research themes or academic requirements, you can access dedicated collections. Each collection contains a wealth of primary source material on a given topic, geographic region or timeframe.

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