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Trial
Trial dates: 26 April - 25 June 2023
Discover material from the British Isles and Europe for the period 1450-1700 sourced from over 225 libraries worldwide. This collection covers literature, art, architecture, philosophy, religion, politics, history and linguistics.
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Trial
Trial dates: 2 June - 1 August 2023
Engage with important primary sources, offering insight into many aspects of the conflict, including government policy, the war in the Pacific, and the war in Europe.
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Alternate Name(s): Gale Cengage Irish nationalism Irish independence Fenianism Roman Catholic Church Catholicism Irish diaspora Land League Irish literary revival
Explore national and regional newspaper titles published Ireland from the late 18th to early 20th centuries.
This module (Part VI) complements content available for Library members in British Library Newspapers.
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Discover a stunning collection of rare books, games, ephemera, and artwork from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Showcasing works for young readers, trace the ideas that shape established Western notions of childhood.
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Alternate Name(s): Gale Cengage African Trade Union Papers Political Pamphlets from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies British Commonwealth of Nations Imperial Conference of British Empire Leaders decolonisation colonial imperial revolution
Discover materials from within former British colonies and Commonwealth nations, alongside some from former French and Portuguese territories. Created for local audiences by local actors, these materials reflect a period of enormous global change as decolonisation movements gathered momentum post-World War II.
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Alternate Name(s): Archives Unbound Gale Cengage Winterthur Museum and Library domestic management home economics cookbook housekeeping household management
Enjoy centuries of recipes and housekeeping advice with this trove of cookbooks and domestic management books from as early as 1730 through to the 20th century.
This is a part of the Archives Unbound database.
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Alternate Name(s): South East Asia South Asia East Asia Malaysia Singapore Indonesia Malayan Emergency guerrilla coup history communism
Gain insight into the significant changes that took place in Southeast Asia during 1963-1980, including the creation of Malaysia and the response to this from the wider region.
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Witness the lives of seafarers in the Anglo-American maritime world during the period 1600-1900. Firsthand accounts and court records depict life onboard merchant and naval vessels, whalers, pirate ships and more.
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Alternate Name(s): Nineteenth Century Collections Online NCCO invention epidemiology electricity engineering astronomy astrophysics natural selection geology mineralogy chemistry natural history public health entomology
Explore scientific, technical, and medical knowledge and ideas from "the last great age of discovery" (1780 to 1925). Follow the development of modern science and its method across more than 3.5 million pages of journals, books, reports, and personal documents. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.
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Alternate Name(s): British Film Institute
Explore the lives of the late Victorians and Edwardians captured between 1895 and 1913 by some of Britain’s earliest film pioneers and innovators. Featuring film collections, as well as video interviews, exhibitions and essays by experts.
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