VE Day: through our online resources TAGS: databases | digital archives | dissertation | e-resources | film | history | Library | newspaper archives | online resources | primary source databases | primary sources | research | resources | second world war | VE Day | Victory in Europe Day | World War II Today, 8 May 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe Day) when people in Britain and Allied nations across the world celebrated the unconditional surrender of …Continue reading →

Trials ending this weekend TAGS: Alexander Street Press | Anthropology Online | Black Freedom | China Core Newspapers Full-text Database | China Reference Works Online | China Statistical Yearbooks Database | China Yearbooks Full-text Database | databases | Digital National Security Archive | Ethnographic Video Online Series | History Vault | Immigration | Law and Society since the Civil War | NAACP | Plantations | Politics and Society 1960-1975 | ProQuest | Slavery and the Law | trial | US Military Intelligence Reports 1911-1944 | Vietnam War | Women's Rights | World War II Last chance to try out these databases! From Alexander Press we have 3 databases on trial until Sunday 13th July. Anthropology Online provides a wide range of written ethnographies, field …Continue reading →

‘The old conditions cannot continue, and some new form of political and economic existence must be found’ TAGS: CRC | Dr Friedrich M Urban | Edinburgh University Special Collections | Nuremberg rally | Professor Sir Godfrey Thomson | World War II All of history seems to be contained in the letters of ordinary people living in extraordinary times.  We may know what backdrop will emerge, but there are seldom enough traces …Continue reading →

The Story of One TAGS: Ann Lingard | Cafe Scientifique | Cognitive ageing | Fionna Carmichael | Linda Kosciewicz-Fleming | Lothian Birth Cohorts | Michael Davenport | poetry | Professor Ian Deary | World War 2 | World War II In 1932 and 1947, every 11 year old child in Scotland was given an intelligence test*.  This fact is referred to throughout the blog. Its the reason Thomson was famous …Continue reading →