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Trial access to Empire Studies – AM Scholar

By Sarah Gilmore, on 8 May 2025

UCL has trial access to Empire Studies – AM Scholar until 3rd June 2025. Please note that PDF download options are not available during trials.

Empire Studies – AM Scholar offers an array of sources for the study of the British Empire. It features material on British colonial policy and government; perspectives on life in British colonies; the relationship between gender and empire; race; and class.

Highlights include:

  • Letterbooks and personal papers of Duncan Campbell, a key figure in the founding of the Sydney colony in New South Wales
  • Manuscript sources on the condition of indigenous women and the extension of suffrage to women within the Empire from The National Archives
  • The personal papers of Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales from 1810-1821
  • Correspondence and papers relating to Jamaican plantation life in the eighteenth and nineteenth-centuries

Please send feedback on this resource to your subject librarian.

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