We have recently added several new products from Adam Matthew Digital to our collections. See below for more details.
Travel Writing, Spectacle, and World History
This resource brings together hundreds of accounts by women of their travels across the globe from the early 19th century to the late 20th century. Students and researchers will find sources covering a variety of topics including; architecture; art; the British Empire; climate; customs; exploration; family life; housing; industry; language; monuments; mountains; natural history; politics and diplomacy; race; religion; science; shopping; war. Different forms of travel writing are included, ranging from unique manuscripts, diaries and correspondence to drawings, guidebooks and photographs.
This resource contains full colour images of the original medieval manuscripts that comprise the Paton, Cely, Plumpton, Stonor, and Armburgh family letter collections along with full text searchable transcripts from the printed editions, where they are available. The original images and the transcriptions can be viewed side by side.
Literary Manuscripts: 17th and 18th Century Poetry from the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds
This project offers literary scholars the opportunity to examine complete facsimile images of 190 manuscripts of 17th and 18th century verse held in the celebrated Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds. The database includes first lines, last lines, attribution, author, title, date, length, verse form, content and bibliographic references for over 6,600 poems within the collection.
Taking the phenomenon of the Grand Tour as a starting point, this resource explores the relationship between Britain and Europe between c1550 and c1850, exploring the British response to travel on the Continent for pleasure, business and diplomacy. The Grand Tour includes the travel writings of various British artists, writers and thinkers, revealing how interaction with European culture shaped their creative and intellectual sensibilities. It also includes many writings by forgotten or anonymous travelers, including many women, whose daily experiences offer a vivid insight into the experience and practicalities of travel over the centuries.
This collection is comprised of sources from the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Library, Chicago. The Graff Collection is a mixture of original manuscripts, maps, ephemeral material and rare printed sources, that may serve as a dynamic teaching and research resource.
Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan
Sourced from the British Foreign Office files, this resource allows for the study of political and social history of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan in this period. It includes content on Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and Kashmir, as well as other frontier regions. Among other things, the threat posed by China and the Soviet Union is analyzed in detail.
Foreign Office Files for China, 1949-1980
This project addresses a crucial period in Chinese history, from the foundation of the People’s Republic, in 1949, to the death of Zhou Enlai and Mao, the arrest of the Gang of Four and the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. Available are the complete British Foreign Office Files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in this period. These files are important because Britain was one of the first countries to recognize Communist China.
Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape
Presenting the manuscript collections of the Wordsworth Trust, this digital collection offers students and researchers of the Romantic period access to the working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and his fellow writers, including Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey and Robert Southey. Also included are art pieces by such eminent artists as J.M.W. Turner, John Constable and Benjamin Robert Haydon.
Rock and Roll, Counterculture, Peace and Protest
This collection focuses on original archival material – manuscript, typescript and ephemera – from key libraries in Britain and America, providing the primary sources that will enable students and scholars to examine these issues in detail and at first hand:
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Changing Lifestyles, 1950-1975
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Youth Culture
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Student Protests
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Mai ‘68
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Popular Culture; TV; Music; Movies
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Civil Rights; Women’s Liberation; Minority Groups
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The Space Race
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Consumerism; Credit Cards; Computers
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Vietnam War
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Nuclear Disarmament
