Collection Content
Resource Types:
Archival materials
Correspondence
Drawings
Government publications
Legal documents
Maps
Newspapers
Photographs
Reports
Transcription
Major Languages:
English
German
French
and Italian

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Content Details:
Topics covered | Multi-archive collection provides a wide-ranging and in depth look at the emigration of peoples from Great Britain, mainland Europe and Asia during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, covering the following main topics: Motives for Emigration; Departures: Port Conditions and Organisation; Ships and Shipping Lines; Journey Conditions; Arrivals: Ports and Early Experiences; Religion, Ethnic Identity and Community; Responses to Immigration;Politics, Legislation and Governance; Onward Trave; Permanent Settlement and Successive; Remigration |
Geographic coverage | Covers the migration of people from Britain, Europe and Asia to North America and Australia |
Chronological coverage | 1800-1924 |
Source format(s) | Primary sources complimented by additional contextual research and teaching tools. Document types include: Correspondence, manuscript, printed books, printed extracts, photographs, objects, pamphlets, personal accounts, ephemera, legal papers, illustrations, shipping papers, watercolours, reports, leaflets, newspapers, postcards, maps, ship plans, periodicals, oral history (audio), 360 objects, posters, scrapbooks, sheet music, oral history (video). Contextual features include: An interactive data map showing emigration and immigration patterns for The US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand over time; Interactive floor plans of migrant housing in New York; Specially commission photographs of the Star of India ship; A photographic tour of the Grosse Ile quarantine station; Thematic essays written by leading academics; Biogrpahies of immigration agents |
Total titles | 2,437 |
Total pages | 372,285 |
Major language (s) | English |
Digital collection launch date | Publication of Module 1: November 2015 |
Completion date | Module 1 is now available. Publication of Module 2 will be in 2017 |
Collection ongoing | Module 2 (The Modern Era) will be published in 2017 |
Update frequency | One further module in 2017: Module 2 content will be made available in one release in 2017 as a supplement to Module 1 and contained within the same portal |
Available supplements | Compatible content available in other Adam Matthew titles can be cross-searched through 'Archive Explorer' if an institution has access to these other collections. Module 2 content will be made available in one release in 2017 as a supplement to Module 1 and contained within the same portal |