On trial: Krokodil Digital Archive TAGS: 20th century | Archives | cultural history | databases | history | Magazines | Politics | primary source | russia | social history | Soviet Union Thanks to a request from a student in HCA the Library has trial access to Krokodil Digital Archive from East View. The complete archive of what was once the leading …Continue reading →

On trial: Chatham House Online Archive TAGS: 20th century | 21st century | Africa | Americas | Archives | Asia | Britain | databases | Europe | history | International Relations | middle east | official documents | Politics | primary source | russia Thanks to a request from staff in HCA the Library currently has trial access to Chatham House Online Archive from Gale. This digital resource contains the publications and archives of …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 →

The Development Of Avant-Garde Art And Ideas 1905-1924 TAGS: 1900s | 1910's | 1920s | art | Avant-Garde | Europe | European | history | PhD | russia | Russian | West | Western | youtube The film above is a review of the artworks referenced in the first three volumes of a four volume Ph.D. thesis by Ivor Davies from 1974: Certain Aspects Of Art …Continue reading →

Trial access: Socialism on Film TAGS: 20th century | China | Communism | databases | Eastern Europe | film | history | Latin America | moving image | Politics | primary source | russia | Vietnam And finally…Adam Matthew have given the Library trial access to their just released resource Socialism on Film. This impressive collection of documentaries, newsreels and features reveals the world as seen …Continue reading →

Missionary to the North – The Paterson Bible Collection TAGS: Bible | Biblical Studies | Funk | missions | New College Library | rare books | russia | World Christianity In early 2014 we began work to catalogue the Paterson Bible Collection, as part of the Funk Cataloguing Projects at New College Library. This collection of over 300 Bibles in …Continue reading →

Geoffrey Herbert Beale TAGS: Archives | epigenetics | genetics | geoffrey beale | john innes | malaria | medical research council | paramecium | plasmodium | russia Two weeks ago, when we posted about the Lysenko Controversy in Soviet Russia, mention was made of Geoffrey Beale’s interest in and knowledge of the Russian language and scientific history. …Continue reading →

The Lysenko Controversy: Soviet Genetics and Edinburgh TAGS: 1939 | crew | Edinburgh | genetics | geoffrey beale | internation genetics congress | lysenko | mendel | mendelism | propaganda | russia | soviet | stalin | USSR | vernalisation Britain has been fortunate in the freedom it has enjoyed to carry out scientific research; something which has not always been the case with other parts of the world. The …Continue reading →