On trial: Prosecuting the Holocaust: British investigations into Nazi war crimes TAGS: 20th century | Archives | Britain | databases | Europe | history | Holocaust | official documents | primary source | World War Two I’m happy to let you know that the Library currently has trial access to the brand new digital primary source collection, Prosecuting the Holocaust: British investigations into Nazi war crimes, …Continue reading →

A New Profession TAGS: Archives | Social Work | students From 1 October 1928 The Edinburgh School of Social Study and Training, established in 1918, was to be incorporated into the University. Students at the school had been entitled to …Continue reading →

Spotlight on: FBI Files TAGS: 20th century | America | Archives | Black history | Cold War | Communism | databases | history | Hollywood | McCarthy Era | McCarthyism | official documents | Politics | primary source | Radicalism | social history | Spotlight on | surveillance | United States This is part of an occasional series highlighting some of the digital resources available at the Library that will be of interest to students and staff in History, Classics and …Continue reading →

On trial: State Papers: Eighteenth Century (Parts I and IV) TAGS: 1700's | 18th century | Archives | Britain | correspondence | databases | Europe | history | International Relations | Letters | Manuscripts | official documents | Politics | primary source Thanks to a request from a HCA student the Library currently has trial access to Parts I and IV of State Papers Online: Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782 from Gale. Part I …Continue reading →

Cataloguing the correspondence of Thomas Nelson & Sons TAGS: Archives | students Cataloguing the correspondence of Thomas Nelson & Sons Last January, our intern Isabella started a 10-week placement at the CRC, as part of her MSc in Book History and Material …Continue reading →

On trial: digital collections relating to the slave trade and slavery in the West Indies TAGS: 17th century | 18th century | 19th century | 20th century | Africa | Antigua | Archives | Black history | Britain | Colonisation | correspondence | cultural history | databases | empire | Europe | history | International Relations | Jamaica | Manuscripts | missionaries | North America | official documents | Politics | primary source | Scotland | Slave trade | slavery | social history | West Indies *The Library has now purchased access to the collection ‘Slavery: supporters and abolitionists, 1675-1865 ’. See New to the Library: Slavery: supporters and abolitionists, 1675-1865* Thanks to a request from …Continue reading →

On trial: Archives of Sexuality & Gender TAGS: 16th century | 17th century | 18th century | 19th century | 20th century | 21st century | Archives | Books | Britain | correspondence | cultural history | databases | e-books | Europe | gender studies | history | Letters | LGBT+ History | LGBT+ studies | Magazines | Manuscripts | Politics | primary source | social history | United States | World War Two *The Library has now purchased access to Archives of Sexuality & Gender. See New to the Library: Archives of Sexuality & Gender* Thanks to a request from staff and students …Continue reading →

On trial: Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War TAGS: 20th century | Archives | Britain | cultural history | databases | Europe | First World War | history | Magazines | primary source | social history *The Library has access to Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War until 31st July 2024 as part of ProQuest Access 350.* Thanks to a request from …Continue reading →

New to the Library: The Baltimore Afro-American TAGS: 19th century | 20th century | Archives | Black history | cultural history | databases | history | Newspapers | Politics | primary source | social history | United States | World War Two I’m happy to let you know that the Library now has access to the digital archive of The Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988) from ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Founded in 1892 it is …Continue reading →

On trial: Tanzania and Malawi in records from colonial missionaries, 1857-1965 TAGS: 19th century | 20th century | Africa | Archives | Black history | Britain | correspondence | databases | history | journals | Magazines | missionaries | primary source | UMCA | Universities' Mission to Central Africa *The Library has now purchased access to the ‘Tanzania and Malawi in records from colonial missionaries’. See New! Tanzania and Malawi in records from colonial missionaries, 1857-1965.* Thanks to a …Continue reading →