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The Nineteenth Century Stage brings together primary source material from archival collections in the UK, USA and Australia to reveal the shifting and expanding theatre world of the nineteenth century. Featuring material such as prompt books, programmes, company records, photographs and playbills, users can explore the multi-faceted nature of the nineteenth-century theatre industry, the lives and careers of well-known actors and actresses and the production, performance and reception of popular plays of the time.

This multi-part resource will contain a century’s worth of correspondence from the British legation and consulates in the cities of imperial and republican China, documenting Sino-British relations and myriad aspects of Chinese history from 1830 to 1939. Themes explored in the sources include politics, diplomacy, international relations, trade and the economy, military conflict, public health, missionaries, migration, war and revolution.

In order to use the Gale Digital Scholar Lab tool you need to create an account so that you can save sets of content and the analyses that will be run on those content sets. The Lab is a single research platform where you can apply natural language processing tools to raw text data (OCR) from your institution's Gale Primary Sources holdings, or from uploaded OCR. Gale Digital Scholar Lab is organized in three broad steps: Build, Clean, and Analyze.