Description:
A collection of over 70,000 images of original manuscripts and printed material, 1492-1969, taken from libraries and archives around the world, including Africa, the Americas, Australasia, Oceania, and South Asia. The collection is currently divided into five thematic sections:
I. Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969
II. Empire Writing and the Literature of Empire
III. The Visible Empire
IV. Religion and Empire
V. Race, Class, imperialism and Colonialism