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 →

On trial: Socialism on Film TAGS: 20th century | Archives | Asia | China | Cold War | Communism | Cuba | databases | Fascism | film | history | Holocaust | International Relations | moving images | Politics | primary source | russia | Spain I’m pleased to let you know that the Library has been given the opportunity to trial for a second time the fascinating Socialism on Film: The Cold War and International …Continue reading →

Freedom to read, freedom to believe #BannedBooksWeek TAGS: Bible | censorship | Christianity | Diversity | Holocaust | islam | Judaism | twentieth-century A guest post by Eleanor Rideout, IS Helpdesk Assistant Banned Books Week, held the week of September 24th in 2017, is an annual celebration of the freedom to read. New …Continue reading →

Jewish Studies Collections at New College Library : nineteenth and twentieth centuries TAGS: Holocaust | Israel | Jewish | Judaism | middle east | New College Library | nineteenth-century | twentieth-century The British Association for Jewish Studies Conference to Edinburgh at New College today covers a wide range of topics under its theme of ‘Jews on the Move’ including the theme of …Continue reading →

USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive TAGS: Armenia | China | databases | film | genocide | Guatemala | history | Holocaust | interviews | Politics | primary source | Rwanda | survivors | United States | video I’m pleased to let you know that the Library currently has trial access to the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive®. You can access this online archive via the E-resources …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 →

The Rescue that never was – remembering Holocaust Memorial Day #HMD2013 TAGS: Church of England | Funk | Holocaust | Jewish | Judaism | New College Library | Pamphlets | rare books | Theology & Ethics | twentieth-century | war Holocaust Memorial Day marks the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945, and remembers those who died in the Holocaust and under Nazi persecution, and during subsequent genocides, …Continue reading →