Databases A-Z

Gender: Identity and Social Change includes primary sources for the study of gender history, women’s suffrage, the feminist movement and the men’s movement. Other key areas represented in the material include: employment and labour, education, government and legislation, the body, domesticity and the family. Explore records from men’s and women’s organisations and pressure groups, detailing twentieth-century lobbying and activism on a wide array of issues to reveal developing gender relations and prevalent challenges.

GenderWatch enhances gender and women's studies, and gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) research by providing authoritative perspectives from 1970 to present. This well-established and highly reviewed resource offers over 260 titles, with more than 240 in full-text, from an array of academic, radical, community and independent presses. Researchers and teachers may access more than 219,000 full articles on wide-ranging topics like sexuality, religion, societal roles, feminism, masculinity, eating disorders, healthcare, and the workplace.

These are reports from the Genetics and Public Policy Center, which was affiliated with Johns Hopkins University's Berman Institute of Bioethics. The reports cover areas of reproductive policy and law, from 2002-2006.

This database is the definitive cross-cultural resource for information on women's history. It spans more than four centuries and 15 languages and includes over two million pages in full image. Users can trace the evolution of feminism within a single country, as well as the impact of that country's feminist movement on other countries and their movements. The Gerritsen Collection also provides immediate access to many primary sources from around the world that were previously available only in a limited number of rare book rooms.

Spanning 100 years, this collection of annuals, comics, magazines and newspapers allows users to explore how magazine and print culture both inspired and restricted girls as they navigated their journey toward adulthood. It offers a look into the changing lives and societal expectations placed on girls and young women in the UK, US, and Australia throughout the twentieth century.

The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) was established in 1919 as the League of Red Cross Societies, with the goal of expanding the humanitarian activities and reach of the existing network of Red Cross Societies. Its archives, held at the IFRC headquarters in Geneva, cover the work of the IFRC around the world and include material focused on relief services to refugees and displaced persons after conflicts, campaigns for public health and community health, disaster aid in the wake of drought, flood, famine, earthquakes, and other events, programmes for community development and resilience, and support for nursing and youth activities. The records made available in this new digital archive offer insight into foreign aid and humanitarian practices, government policies and local responses to environmental and man-made disasters, as well as rare details and perspectives of disaster events as they happened.

A Global History of Epidemics, 1800-1970 brings together unique primary sources to enable research into a pivotal part of history for public health and medicinal advancement. Through a broad range of sources including correspondence, official reports, diagrams, photographs and film footage, researchers can explore developments in disease prevention, outbreak management, sanitation and public welfare as well as track the spread and treatment of major epidemics and pandemics across the globe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This collection illuminates world affairs and the development of US foreign policy from World War I through the twentieth century, examining a broad range of military, economic, political and social developments. The records of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) also reveal the climate of public opinion at key points in twentieth century history. The individuals and topics selected for meetings and studies illustrate which world issues were deemed important during specific times.