UCL has trial access to Digital National Security Archive, Mexico-United States Counternarcotics Policy, 1969-2013 until 1st April 2023.

Digital National Security Archive, Mexico-United States Counternarcotics Policy, 1969-2013 comprises of 1,877 documents which trace the impact of U.S. drug policy on Mexico-U.S. relations from the Nixon administration through the first term of the Obama presidency.

The collection begins with Operation Intercept, President Nixon’s unilateral attempt to stem drug traffic by nearly closing the Mexico-U.S. border, and follows the relations between the hemisphere’s largest consumer of illegal drugs and a principal producer and transit point for those substances. It chronicles the impact of U.S. drug policy on Mexico-U.S. relations; the infusion of U.S. counternarcotics aid in the form of equipment, training, and joint eradication programs; the transformation of drug control from a law enforcement issue to a national security concern; the increased role of the Mexican military in drug control; the rise of Mexican cartels, drug violence, and official corruption; and efforts, through the Merida Initiative, to support judicial reform, institution-building, and institutionalization of rule-of-law.

The set includes detailed reporting on crop eradication campaigns such as Operation Trizo, Operation SEAM, and Operation Condor; Federal Bureau of Investigation reports on the 1985 killing of agent Enrique Camarena; and records on the U.S. extraordinary rendition of Humberto Alvarez Machaín. The documents also examine the effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement on the drug trade, the escalation of drug-related violence in Mexico and on the U.S. border, and implementation of the Merida Initiative.

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UCL has trial access to the Church Missionary Society Archive and the Church Missionary Society Periodicals from Adam Matthew until 2nd April 2023. Please note that PDF download options are not available but double clicking on thumbnails shows a larger high-res version.

Church Missionary Society Archive is a repository of source materials on the work of the Church Missionary Society, founded in 1799 as an Anglican evangelical movement and still active today. It includes records of both the CMS and the many other missionary societies which have become associated or amalgamated with it over its lifetime.

Highlights include:

• Central records of the CMS and papers of key individuals associated with it
• Records of the the Loochoo Naval Mission (1843-1864), the first recorded Anglican and Protestant mission in Japan
• Archive of the Society for Promoting Female Education in China, India and the East
• Records of the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society

Church Missionary Society Periodicals encompasses publications from the CMS, the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society and the latterly integrated South American Missionary Society. Documenting missionary work from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, the periodicals include news, journals and reports offering a unique perspective on global history and cultural encounters.

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UCL has trial access to the Subculture Archives until 28th March 2023.

The Subculture Archives is an educational and cultural research resource of primary sources exploring 100 years of youth culture through the scenes, styles, and sounds that forged them. From Rave, Punk, Rockabilly to Grime. From the world’s leading collection of youth culture history.

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UCL has trial access to BBC Monitoring: Summary of World Broadcasts until 10th March 2023.

BBC Monitoring was founded in 1939 at the start of WWII. Its purpose was to listen to radio broadcasts and gather open-source intelligence to help Britain and its allies understand global dynamics and assess emerging global threats. Over the next 60 years, the scope of its monitoring grew quickly. Trained specialists transcribed broadcasts of speeches, current affairs, political discussions, and social and cultural events worldwide. Transcripts, in turn, were translated into English, then read by experts who carefully selected critical content for publication. Finally, selections were summarized and curated into daily reports that comprise the Summary of World Broadcasts. These original daily reports often included commentary and evaluation by subject matter experts, as well as synopses and specialist briefings.

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UCL has trial access to The Tablet and The Catholic Herald until 2nd March 2023.

The Tablet is a weekly Catholic journal which has been reporting on events of significance for over 170 years. It provides an international coverage of religion, current affairs, politics, social issues and the arts.

The Catholic Herald is one of Britain’s leading Catholic publications, published monthly as a magazine. As well as carrying topical news items from the UK and the world, the Catholic Herald contains reviews and publishes in-depth interviews and special supplements for Easter and Christmas.

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UCL has trial access to Wiley Digital Archives: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland archive until 26th February 2023.

Wiley Digital Archives: RAI archive contains nearly one million pieces of unique content, including research data, papers, fieldwork, drawings and photographs, and a wealth of previously uncatalogued material. The digitized collections within this archive contain materials and datasets relating to the study of history of anthropology, religion, race and culture, world history and politics, the history of empire and colonialism, and gender studies.

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UCL has trial access to Cambridge Shakespeare: The Works and Worlds of Shakespeare Online until 31st March 2023.

Cambridge Shakespeare hosts prize-winning content from Cambridge University Press, with integrated playtexts and notes, reference material and related multimedia resources.

The online platform includes:

• The complete bestselling New Cambridge Shakespeare series (41 volumes)
• The New Cambridge Shakespeare: The Early Quartos series (7 volumes)
• Shakespeare in Production (14 volumes)
• The award-winning The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare; over 300 transhistorical, international and interdisciplinary essays on Shakespeare and contexts
• A new version of Emma Smith’s The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide, exclusive to Cambridge Shakespeare
• Multimedia resources for Shakespeare’s works, curated by the Folger Shakespeare Library
• The platform will be updated with new content as soon as it is published
• New for 2022 Shakespeare Survey – with access to all editions.
  • Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year’s textual and critical studies, and of the year’s major British performances. The virtues of accessible scholarship and a keen interest in performance, from Shakespeare’s time to our own, have characterised the journal from the start.
  • The books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs.

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UCL has trial access to History Commons: Weimar and Nazi Germany until 3rd February 2023.

History Commons: Weimar and Nazi Germany is the only digital English language primary source archive on Germany that spans the entire interwar period from the 1918 armistice to the outbreak of World War II. It includes nearly 600,000 pages of declassified, exclusive, previously undigitized files sent to the UK Foreign Office from embassies, covert contacts, and other sources.

History Commons: Weimar and Nazi Germany documents an intense time of hyperinflation, political extremism, and seizures of power. It details the aftermath of World War I, recovery following the war, the Great Depression, and Hitler’s rise, providing contemporaneous accounts, documents, reports, and correspondence of how Western democracies struggled with fascism and autocracy.

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UCL has trial access to Black Ballad until 17th January 2023.

Black Ballad is the only women’s media publication and data operation in Britain exclusively dedicated to telling the stories and sharing the experiences of Black women in Britain and the wider diaspora.

Society is becoming more and more conscious of the different lived experiences of Black women and the wider Black community, not just because of race but due to the intersection of gender, class, sexuality, ability and other identities. Black Ballad explores race, race relations and Black identities in academia, chronicling Black women’s experiences as they have navigated the changing landscape of the world’s political, social and economic experiences that include Covid-19, Black Lives Matter, health inequality, the ethnic pay gap, Queer Rights and more.

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UCL has trial access to Archive Finder including ArchivesUSA and NIDS UK/Ireland until 16th December 2022.

Archive Finder is a current directory which describes over 220,000 collections of primary source material housed in thousands of repositories across the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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