Welcome to the SOAS Digital Collections.
As a world leader in the study of Africa, Asia and the Middle East, SOAS, University of now make selected collections available for online use. Its digital collections include archives and manuscripts, photographs, maps, books and journals, newspapers, oral histories, films and audio. Nearly all are available freely, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, all year round. While some of this content is protected by copyright, all of it can be used with attribution under Creative Commons licence CC BY-NC.
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Archives & Special Collections
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Archives & Special Collections
Digital resources from the holdings of the Archives and Special Collections, SOAS, University of London
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Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf Collection
An online resource for the historical study of tribal cultures in South Asia and the Himalayas. The photographic archive of Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf (1909-1995) at SOAS is recognised as the world's most comprehensive visual documentation of tribal cultures in South Asia and the Himalayas.
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Illustrating Persia
Illustrating Persia
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Islamic Manuscripts Gallery
Previously known as the Yale-SOAS Islamic Manuscripts Gallery, here are found only the resources contributed by SOAS. Resources, while primarily drawn from Islamic communities, are also drawn from Christian, Jewish and other religious communities and traditions in what is often known as the Islamic World.
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Islamic Manuscripts Online
Collections of Islamic & Middle Eastern manuscripts in various SOAS Collections
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J.P. Mills Collection
James Philip Mills (1890-1960) worked as an anthropologist-administrator in northeast India during most of the first half of the twentieth century and was later Reader in Anthropology at SOAS. His several ethnographies of Naga groups are still regarded as authoritative. His collection of approximately 1,500 images are held at SOAS and the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. The images in the SOAS repository are almost entirely from a set of albums holding black and white prints.
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John Charles Oswald Photographs
John Charles Oswald Photographs
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Palm Leaf Manuscripts & Pothi Texts
A collection of palm leaf manuscripts and palm leaf like paper books from the collections of SOAS, University of London
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Papers of Reginald Follett Codrington Hedgeland
RFC Hedgeland Collection
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Robert Morrison Papers and Library
The papers and library of Robert Morrison
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SOAS Picture Archive
SOAS Picture Archive
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William Dawes' Notebooks
William Dawes' Notebooks
Special Formats
SOAS Repositories
Languages
NEWSPAPERS
The Americas & the Caribbean
The F.G. Bailey Papers
The Dr Cyrus Ala’i’s Map Collection of Persia
The Oriental (San Francisco)
