Database of some 60,000 images of original manuscript and printed documents along with scholarly interpretive essays on empires (with emphasis on the British empire). Empire On-Line will eventually have five sections:

1. Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969 (available now)
2. Empire Writing and the Literature of Empire - Winter 2003/4
3. The Visible Empire - Winter 2004/5
4. Religion and Empire - Winter 2005/6
5. Race, Class and Colonialism, c.1783-1969 - Winter 2006/7