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HIST 2940: Sports and Empire: Selected Sources by Geographic Areas

Africa

National Library of South Africa Digital Collections
Reporting on Africa: From Apartheid to Pan-Africanism, 1949-1995
Colin Legum (1919-2003) was a South African journalist and writer on African politics
South African History Online
Good resource for background information, and often links to primary and secondary source collections on specific topics.

Asia

National Archives of India
National Library of India
Includes some digital primary sources.
South Asia Open Archives

Caribbean

Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)
dLOC is a cooperative of Partners within the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean that provides users with access to Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials held in archives, libraries, and private collections.

Britain and France

Gallica - Presse Sportive
French. Links to the sports newspapers in the Biblioteque Nationale's digital collection. Sporting news from the 19th through the mid-20th centuries. Search all of Gallica for additional types of materials.

U.K. Parliamentary Papers This link opens in a new window
Features the richest and most detailed primary sources for the history of the past two centuries, and are fundamental to an understanding of current legislation, policy-making and the political environment of the UK.