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June 19, 2019
On trial: African American Newspapers and Times-Picayune TAGS: 19th century | 20th century | African-American history | Archives | Black history | cultural history | databases | history | Newspapers | primary source | social history | United States Thanks to a request from a student in HCA the Library currently has trial access to two newspaper databases from Readex, African American Newspapers, Series 1, 1827-1998 and New Orleans …Continue reading →
Explore black history through Archives Unbound TAGS: 19th century | 20th century | Africa | African-American history | Archives | correspondence | databases | history | International Relations | Letters | Manuscripts | Newspapers | official documents | periodicals | personal papers | Politics | primary source | social history | United States In this week’s blog post I wanted to highlight a number of primary source databases that you have access to at the University that allow you to discover more about …Continue reading →
Trial access: The NAACP Papers Collection TAGS: African-American history | Black history | databases | history | NAACP | primary source | United States Thanks to a request from a student in History, the Library currently has trial access to The NAACP Papers Collections 1-6, part of ProQuest History Vault. These collections are the …Continue reading →
Edinburgh Research Archive Statistics: May 2019
An intern’s first impressions
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From Barbed Wire to the BBC: The Writings of Tom Burns
Introduction Throughout his career as researcher, lecturer and finally Professor of Sociology, Tom Burns was...
A New Profession
From 1 October 1928 The Edinburgh School of Social Study and Training, established in 1918,...
