New to the Library: Service Newspapers of World War Two TAGS: 20th century | Africa | Archives | Asia | Australia | Britain | Canada | cultural history | databases | Europe | gender studies | history | India | International Relations | new zealand | Newspapers | primary source | social history | United States | World War Two I’m really pleased to let you know that following a successful trial the Library now has access to Service Newspapers of World War Two from Adam Matthew Digital, a brand …Continue reading →

On trial: Migration to New Worlds II: The Modern Era TAGS: 19th century | 20th century | Archives | Asia | Australia | correspondence | databases | emigration | Europe | history | Immigration | journals | Letters | Manuscripts | new zealand | official documents | primary source | Refugees | United States The Library currently has trial access to Migration to New Worlds II: The Modern Era from Adam Matthew Digital. The Modern Era presents thousands of sources focusing on the growth …Continue reading →

‘Der Tag’, Grand Fleets, and ‘Kia ora’: HMS New Zealand and the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet, 21st November, 1918 TAGS: Armistice | Der Tag | Forth Estuary | German Fleet | H.M.S. New Zealand | Kia Ora | Navy | new zealand | P. J. Voysey | Scapa Flow In March 1991 the Government of New Zealand presented Edinburgh University Library with the Library of New Zealand House, London. The New Zealand Studies Collection has recently been catalogued and …Continue reading →

Employ.Ed Hidden Collections Intern – Weeks 5 to 6 TAGS: Careers | employ.ed | hidden collections | Intern | lesya ukrainka | new zealand | RAB | robert bruce | ukrain Three quarters of the internship now behind me, I have decided to focus on actually finishing off projects that I have been working on – and that means the New …Continue reading →

Employ.Ed Hidden Collections Intern – Weeks 2 to 4 TAGS: Annexe | Careers | Hidden | Intern | Nelson Archive | new zealand | Polynesian Society | Projects | Thomas Nelson Halfway through the internship, so here comes another update from the Annexe. These few weeks have been a lot more eventful than I would have expected. Let me try and …Continue reading →

A puzzle of Presbyterian history TAGS: Christianity | Divinity | Funk | New College Library | new zealand | nineteenth-century | Pamphlets | Presbyterian | rare books | World Christianity Today the School of  Divinity welcomes Dr Hugh Morrison, a visiting Fellow from Otago, who is speaking at the World Christianity Research Seminar on “Doing religious history ‘down under:’ challenges …Continue reading →