Research Guides: COLQ-345: Migrant Lives: Digital Collections

Primary Source Databases

These databases are available to Amherst College students, faculty, and staff.

Documents on British Policy Overseas
Primary-source documents from Britains Foreign and Commonwealth Office, shedding light on diplomatic history throughout the twentieth century.
Mass Observation Online
Primary-source collection containing original manuscript and typescript papers created and collected by the Mass Observation organization, as well as printed publications, photographs, and interactive features.
Times Digital Archive (1785-2019)
A full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of the Times, also known as the London Times

Birmingham Black Oral History Project (Birmingham Museums Trust)
"The Birmingham Black Oral History Project (BBOHP) was founded in Handsworth in 1990. The project aimed to ‘collect, preserve and disseminate the spoken history of Birmingham’s black population’. The collection includes oral history interviews with 21 people conducted between 1990 and 1992, who originated from the Caribbean, South Asia and covered a range of themes including first impressions, religious experiences, education, experiences of racism, identity, as well as their thoughts on the future."
Windrush Stories (Museum of London Docklands)
Oral histories, photographs, and literature by and of members of London's Afro-Caribbean communities.