The ISL recently acquired the Adam Mathew Digital product Confidential Print: Middle East. The resource is accessible here.

What can be found in this product? From the website, “The Confidential Print series, issued by the Foreign and Colonial Offices since c. 1820, is one of the fundamental building blocks for research that should be possessed by any academic library and one of the most important series produced by the British Government.

The series originated out of a need for the Government to preserve all of the most important papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices. Some of these were one-page letters or telegrams; others were large volumes or texts of treaties. All items marked ‘Confidential Print’ were printed and circulated immediately to leading officials in the Foreign Office, to the Cabinet and to heads of British missions abroad.”

The resource is full of excellent primary documents geared to students studying Empire, colonial studies, Middle East and Western (British) relations, and Middle East history between 1839-1969.