Trial access to Access Africa by Newsbank is now active and will run until 24 April 2026.
Access Africa provides the full text of millions of current and archived news articles that researchers can use to pinpoint sources, compare perspectives and track subjects historically and geographically. This robust resource includes more than 780 titles from most countries in Africa, including four image editions from South Africa:
Business Day
Sowetan
Financial Mail
Sunday Times
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Sunday Times, South Africa’s largest Sunday newspaper
The World Religion Database contains detailed statistics on religious affiliation for every country of the world. It provides information from country censuses as well as best estimates for every religion to offer a definitive picture of religion and non-religion in the past, present, and future.
The World Christian Database provides comprehensive statistical information on global Christianity, other world religions, and Christian activities in all 237 countries. Extensive data are available on thousands of Christian denominations, ethnolinguistic people groups, cities, and provinces.
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Esmé Howard (1863-1939) was an influential British diplomat during the early 20th century. As a young man, he worked as private secretary to the British ambassador in Berlin and witnessed the forging of the recently unified Germany. During the 1900s, he held various diplomatic positions in Crete, Budapest, and Berne and between 1913 and 1919 he was posted to Stockholm and was mainly trusted with tackling blockade diplomacy during the First World War. The zenith of his career occurred between 1924 and 1930, when he was a successful British ambassador to the United States. Upon his retirement in 1930 he was elevated to the House of Lords for his work in Washington.
This collection contains extensive material collected over the fascinating and fruitful life of Esmé Howard. This includes a plethora of personal correspondence with important figures, further correspondence, memorandum, and other material from his many diplomatic occupations, his personal diaries, and files documenting his personal estate. As such, the collection offers a compelling account of British diplomacy during and after the First World War.
The Social History Archive provides access to a continuously expanding collection of British, Irish, and former Empire historical records, with new documents added every week.
Our holdings currently include more than 2,880 record sets, comprising over 473 million images and 3.6 billion transcribed entries, and spanning the thirteenth century to 2025. Together, these records cover census returns, military records, directories, government papers, parish registers, and much more. Our high-quality digitised records are sourced from both national institutions and hundreds of local archives and repositories, including The National Archives and many other key partners.
Our records offering is continuously growing, not only through the addition of new record sets but also through ongoing updates of images and transcribed entries to existing record sets. Extensive indexing and bespoke search fields enable researchers to locate material with precision and make the most of their research.
These records cover an extraordinary range of subjects, including demography and prosopography, education and labour, Empire and decolonisation, institutions and welfare, crime and protest, local history, migration and movement, media and communication, religion and dissent, warfare and conflict, women’s history, and more.
This breadth makes them an indispensable resource for research across the humanities, social sciences, and beyond. They are equally valuable in teaching, offering students the chance to work directly with primary sources, compare perspectives, and sharpen their skills in historical analysis.
This trial is available on and and off campus for current students and staff of the University of Cambridge and on campus to readers at the University Library.
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This module includes the confidential original correspondence relating to Malaysia and Singapore as well as a register of out-letters of the Federated Malay States and a collection of post-1940 maps and plans of British Malaya. To these are added ten-plus Hong Kong-related collections of Colonial Office files, Prime Minister’s Office correspondence and papers, Cabinet Office committee files, Ministry of Defense registered files, and British Council registered files. Together these records provide a perfect complement to modules 1- 3 of the series on the history of Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
There are three series that focus on Malaysia and Singapore. The Confidential Original Correspondence in CO 537 covers the period of 1873-1953, dealing with topics and events such as prisoners of war and civilian internees, disposal of Japanese assets, conduct of Sultans of Malay states, Chinese community and Chinese affairs, Indonesian influence in Malay Peninsula, Malayan Union and Federation of Malaya, United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), and labor situation and communism. CO 787 contains a register of out-letters of the Federated Malay States during 1920-1926 while CO 1054 includes a few maps and plans of British Malaya.
A total of twelve series of government files and publications have been selected that focus on the history of Hong Kong from 1844 through 1997. PREM 3, 8, 11, 13, 15, 16, and 19 contain correspondence and papers of the British Prime Minister’s Office between 1941 and 1997. These PREM series, together with DEFE 11 (Ministry of Defence: Chiefs of Staff Committee: Registered Files) and CAB 165/623 (Cabinet Office: Committees Files), present the British central government’s evolving perspective, policies, and attitude toward the colonial city in terms of such topics as trade, international relations, the defense of Hong Kong, and negotiations with the People’s Republic of China government on the future of the city.
In comparison, the Hong Kong sessional papers (CO 131, 1844-1966) and Government Gazettes (CO 132, 1846-1960) are collections of papers produced by the local colonial government in Hong Kong in its day-to-day administration of the city in every aspect, reflecting what happened on the ground in the colony. The sessional papers are documents presented to the Legislative Council meetings, including administration reports, executive council minutes and memoranda, and committee reports. Among them administration reports are released annually, consisting of reports on general administration and specific topics including law and order, public health, education, defense, public works, and undertakings of government. As the official publication of the Government of Hong Kong, the Gazettes contain government/departmental proclamations and notifications on appointments of senior government officials and members of statutory bodies, as well as public tenders. They also include legal supplements on newly enacted or amended ordinances, regulations, and bills.
Lastly, Part IV has incorporated the British Council Hong Kong office’s registered files (BW 94) produced during 1946-1996. These consist of quarterly and annual reports, management reports, and country briefs, covering the office’s policy, budgets, and activities organized such as book exhibitions, visits of international cultural figures, and language courses offered, forming a good complement to the formal British government papers as represented in other series through a non-governmental lens.
Trial access to El Pais Historical Archive (1976-2023) is now active and will run until 27th March 2026.
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Founded on 4 May 1976, six months after the death of dictator Francisco Franco, El País was created as an independent paper dedicated to the promotion of democratic ideals in post-Franco Spain. Today, El País is the most circulated daily newspaper in Spain and it is a national newspaper of record, covering local, national, and international news. El País is a highly readable, serious, literate newspaper appealing to diverse interests and schools of political thought.
El País has been offering coverage of global events since 1976. This offering represents a rich historical archive of Spanish-language news from a pro-democracy newspaper. With El País, researchers can dive deeply into a distinctly European-Spanish perspective on historical events, culture, society, politics, sports, and more.
Access is available on and off campus for current staff and students of the University. On campus access is available for readers at the University Library.
The Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics offers the most comprehensive reference work on Slavic languages ever published, with some 400 articles. It provides authoritative treatment of all important aspects of the Slavic language family from its Indo-European origins to the present day, as well as consideration of the interaction of Slavic with other languages.
OnePetro is an online collection of technical documents, full text journals, and conference proceedings to support the oil and gas exploration and production industry.
Users can sign in as individuals under Uiversity of Cambridge institutional account. This affiliates users with the subscription for 90 days so that they don’t have to visit OnePetro via the library network. At the end of 90 days, users will need to visit OnePetro from University of Cambridge institutional connection and sign in again to re-affiliate under the University of Cambridge subscription.
To do this, when you have already logged in via institutional connection ‘Register’ can be found to the left of University of Cambridge on the menu bar on the landing page. It can also, be accessed from the ‘sign in’ menu to the right of University of Cambridge
Trial access to North Korean news databases NK News, NK Pro and KCNA Watch is now active and will run until 31 March 2026.
These independent specialist databases provide current information relating to North Korea, including analysis and news in English as well as advanced searching of archived North Korean media (news, magazines, and TV). In addition to the main NK News site, we will also have full access to NK Pro and KCNA Watch during the trial.
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Update – this trial has been extended to include Korea Pro, which provides daily analysis on South Korea’s foreign relations, politics, society and economy.
Cambridge University members now have trial access to Renmin Ribao Digital Archive 人民日报 (1946-2012), the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China.
This trial is active now and ends 31 March2026.
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Renmin Ribao (人民日报, People’s Daily) is the central newspaper of record for the modern Chinese state. Since 1946, Renmin Ribao has published the official policies and viewpoints of China’s central government and has been the voice of the upper echelons of power in the People’s Republic of China.
Renmin Ribao publishes authoritative reports by government and party leaders, politically oriented speeches and articles, and covers major events at home and abroad. The newspaper is also important for the editorials, regarded as rather authoritative statements of government policy, covering politics and culture, communist theory and philosophy, and Marxist economics.
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