Black Thought and Culture provides approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to the present. The collection is intended for research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art. The collection begins with the works of Frederick Douglass and is targeted to include the works of W.E.B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, Alain Locke, Mary McLeod Bethune, Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Bunche, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Angela Davis,Thurgood Marshall, James Baldwin, Jesse Jackson, Ida B. Wells, Bobby Seale, Cornel West, Michael Eric Dysonand many others. When complete, the collection will include the first-ever complete full run of the Black Panther newspaper.
Black Thought and Culture is intended to present a wide range of previously inaccessible material, including letters by athletes such as Jackie Robinson, correspondence by Ida B. Wells, prefatory essays by Amiri Baraka, political leaflets by Huey Newton, and interviews with Paul Robeson. Much of the material is fugitive, and almost twenty percent of the collection has not been published previously.

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Explore a stunning collection of rare books, games, ephemera, and artwork from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that reveals the socio-cultural history of these times. Showcasing innovative new publishing methods characteristic of the golden age of children’s literature, from mass-produced chapbooks to richly illustrated ‘book-beautifuls’, this resource examines the way in which new concepts were introduced to young readers, encouraging an engagement with the imagination which went on to fundamentally shape established notions of childhood.

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Decolonization: Politics and Independence in Former Colonial and Commonwealth Territories database brings together material from within former British colonies and Commonwealth nations, alongside some from former French and Portuguese territories. It is a valuable primary source material created for local audiences by local actors during a period of enormous global change. After the Second World War decolonization movements around the world gathered pace, and from the small port colony of Aden to the vast Indian sub-continent, new borders were set and new nations built.
This database contains material representing various historical viewpoints related to race, gender, terrorism, and other subjects, and includes a variety of terms applied to different groups of people reflecting ideas and prejudices at their point of creation.
Some of these terms and attitudes will appear pejorative and expressive of ideas that are no longer regarded as acceptable, such as segregated and apartheid systems, and imperial or colonial rhetoric. Researchers are also warned that these materials may contain images of and references to deceased persons, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. These materials are provided for academic research and teaching purposes, and Gale does not endorse any specific views contained within the content.

Disability in the Modern World: History of a Social Movement is a welcome addition to the field of disability studies. This collection brings together key primary and secondary materials for students and researchers on the history of disability. Disability in the Modern World is an important resource for libraries to better support diverse scholarship.

Archival runs of 26 of the most influential, longest-running serial publications covering LGBT interests. Includes the pre-eminent US and UK titles – The Advocate and Gay Times, respectively. Chronicles more than six decades of the history and culture of the LGBT community. In addition to LGBT/gender/sexuality studies, this material also serves related disciplines such as sociology, political science, psychology, health, and the arts. Some publications may contain explicit content. Coverage: 1954 - 2015

An online resource hosting books, periodicals, and archival materials documenting LGBT political, social and cultural movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day. The collection illuminates the lives of lesbians, gays, transgender, and bisexual individuals and the community with content including selections from The National Archives in Kew, materials collected by activist and publisher Tracy Baim from the mid-1980s through the mid-2000s, the Magnus Hirschfeld and Harry Benjamin collections from the Kinsey Institute, periodicals such as En la Vida and BLACKlines, select rare works from notable LGBT publishers including Alyson Books and Cleis Press, as well as mainstream trade and university publishers.

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A collection of men’s-interest magazine backfiles serving research in men’s studies/history but also offering important additional perspectives for women’s studies. It includes some of the earliest publications of this type – National Police Gazette and Argosy – and covers key topics such as fashion, sports, health, and arts/entertainment.

Coverage: 1845 - 2015

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An archival research resource comprising the backfiles of leading women's interest consumer magazines. Issues are scanned in high-resolution color and feature detailed article-level indexing. Coverage ranges from the late-19th century through to 2005 and these key primary sources permit the examination of the events, trends, and attitudes of this period. Among the research fields served by this material are gender studies, social history, economics/marketing, media, fashion, politics, and popular culture.

We have access to:

Women's Magazine I
Women's Magazine II

Women's Issues and Identities provides the opportunity to witness history from the female perspective. Offering coverage of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it allows for the serendipitous discovery of commonalities among a variety of archival collections.

Women's Issues and Identities spans multiple geographic regions, providing a variety of perspectives on women's experiences and cultural impact. Within the archive can be found fascinating historical records from Europe, North and South America, Africa, India, East Asia, and the Pacific Rim with content in English, French, German, and Dutch.

A collection of Proquest databases in the Arts & Humanities subject area for King's users.

Additional databases may be available via Senate House

JSTOR offers academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.

King’s subscribes to the following collections within JSTOR:
19th Century British Pamphlets
Arts & Sciences I-XV Collection
Business I Collection
Business II Collection
Ireland Collection
Jewish Studies
Language & Literature Collection
Life Sciences Collection
Music Collection
Political Science
Film Studies
Language and Literature
Philosophy
Religion
Sociology
Business and Economics

Via JSTOR books, King's currently has access to over 54,000 titles from over 42 publishers.

PAO – formerly PCI Full Text - is a major online periodical archive that contains hundreds of journal backfiles in the humanities and social sciences. The date range is 1770-2000. A hive of hundreds of digitised journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. It provides researchers with access to more than 200 years of scholarship, spread across a wide variety of subject areas.

Note: King's College London users have access to Collections 1 to 10 and JISC special collections 1 and 2

Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content; since 1995, its electronic journal collections have supported a wide array of research needs at academic, public, special, and school libraries worldwide. MUSE books and journals, from leading university presses and scholarly societies, are fully integrated for search and discovery.
King's only subscribes to selected journals

Ebook Central is an ebook platform. King’s have purchased over 21,200 titles covering a range of subjects and provides further access to over 176,350 titles.

Formerly known as BHI: British Humanities Index.

An international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities, HI indexes over 400 internationally respected humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK. It covers current affairs, political science, religion, law, history, archaeology, education, economics, environment and gender studies.

Updated monthly with approximately 1,500 records added; it also has the capability to link to electronic full text of many journal articles

Blackwell Reference Online is an online library giving access to over 500 reference ebooks. The collection covers topics from across the humanities and social sciences and includes the critically-acclaimed Blackwell Companions and Handbooks in addition to other valuable reference materials such as dictionaries, encyclopedias and concise companions with integrated seamless links to standalone major reference works on the Blackwell Reference Online platform.

Cambridge Companions are a series of authoritative guides, written by leading experts, offering lively, accessible introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics, and periods.

CCO offers thousands of comprehensive and accessible essays on major authors, periods and genres, written by experts and designed for student readers.

King's users have access to the complete collection of Cambridge Companions, which is divided into three subsections: Literature and Classics; Philosophy, Religion and Culture; and Music.

Contains over 400 volumes published since 1960 over 15 academic subject areas including: American History, British History, Economic History, General History, History of Science, History of the Book, Language & Linguistics, Literary Studies, Music, Philosophy, Political & Social Theory, Regional History, Religious Studies, Theatre Studies & Performing Arts and Warfare.

Oxford Bibliographies Online combines elements of an annotated bibliography and an encyclopaedia to offer a time-saving resource. Annotations indicate what is included in the work whilst personalisation features allow saving, annotating and sharing of citations and searches.

King's has access to the following modules:
African American Studies
Biblical Studies
Classics
Islamic Studies
Philosophy
Victorian Literature

An illustrated collection of more than 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past. Updated 3 times a year with new biographies and additions to articles already published.

The accepted authority on the evolution of English, this is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words. Traces the usage of words through quotations from a range of international English language sources. Updated quarterly.

Oxford Handbooks Online covers many different subject areas and the series contains in-depth, high-level articles by scholars at the top of their field. King's has access to all collections.

Oxford Reference Online: The Core Collection brings together 100 well-known and trusted dictionaries, reference books and Encyclopedias, into a single cross-searchable web database. The Premium Collection offers all of these, plus added functionality and more detailed information from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series, plus the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. ORO provides integrated, consistent coverage of a broad range of subjects: everything from General Reference, Language and Quotations to Science and Medicine, and from Humanities and Social Sciences to Business and Professional.

Oxford’s scholarly editions provide trustworthy, annotated primary texts for scholars and students.

OSEO currently includes writers active between 701 and 1901, plus Classical Latin and Greek authors — from Aristotle, Austen, Bentham, Catullus, Dickens, and Donne through to Plato, Virgil and Wordsworth. It contains over 1,500 scholarly editions — the equivalent of more than 760,000 print pages

The complete text of selected Oxford books. King's subscribe to the full or partial sets below and some additional single titles

Business & Management
Classical Studies 2007 - 2013
Economics & Finance
History 2011 - 2013
Law
Literature 2011 - 2013
Music 2011 - 2013
Philosophy
Political Science
Religion