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April 20, 2025
Trial access: Second World War primary sources TAGS: Berlin | correspondence | databases | history | International Relations | Newspapers | poland | Politics | primary source | World War Two *The Library now has access to these two resource. See Archives abound in Archives Unbound* I’m pleased to let you know that we currently have trial access to two online …Continue reading →
‘Encounters of a mathematician’… TAGS: Berlin | Centre for Research Collections | Edinburgh University Library | Edinburgh University Library Special Collections | Holocaust | mathematics | music | Professor Sir Godfrey Thomson | University of Berlin | University of Edinburgh | University of Manchester | University of St Andrews | University of Sussex | Walter Ledermann For the last few weeks, I have been cataloguing the papers of mathematician, Walter Ledermann (1911-2009). The collection largely composes of highly mathematical letters from Thomson to Ledermann. Having the …Continue reading →
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