HCA Librarian http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/hcalibrarian Blogging on library news, resources, services and skills for staff & students in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology Tue, 04 Aug 2020 08:45:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.1 106690370 Spotlight on ProQuest History Vault http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/hcalibrarian/2020/07/27/spotlight-on-proquest-history-vault/ Mon, 27 Jul 2020 09:04:47 +0000 http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/hcalibrarian/?p=3451 Continue reading ]]> Interested in American history? Then ProQuest History Vault may be exactly what you are looking for.

History Vault gives you access to millions of pages of cross-searchable, full-text/full-image documents including articles, correspondence, government records, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries and more, documenting the most widely studied topics in 18th- through 20th-century American history. It’s a fantastic resource for those teaching, learning or researching in the areas of history, African American studies, women’s studies, political science, social sciences, sociology, and international studies.

You can access ProQuest History Vault via the Databases A-Z list or Digital Primary Source and Archive Collections guide.

History Vault splits it’s collections into 8 themes:

  • Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle
  • Southern Life, Slavery, and the Civil War
  • American Indians and the American West
  • American Politics and Society
  • International Relations and Military Conflicts
  • Women’s Studies
  • Workers, Labor Unions, and Radical Politics

These themes contain a huge range of collections, often split into multiple modules, and some highlights include:

NAACP Papers
With a timeline that runs from 1909 to 1972, the NAACP Papers document the realities of segregation in the early 20th century to the triumphs of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and beyond.

American Indians and the American West from 1809-1971
This module contains several collections focusing on the interaction between American Indians and the U.S. government in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Notable collections in this module from the 19th Century focus on Indian Removal from 1832-1840, the U.S. Army and American Indians in the years from the 1850s-1890s, including detailed coverage of Indian Wars.

Women at Work during World War II
This collection consists of two major sets of records. First, Records of the Women’s Bureau documents the Bureau as an investigative agency, a clearinghouse for proposed changes in working conditions, and a source of public information. Second, Women in the U.S. Military, Correspondence of the Director of the Women’s Army Corps, 1942-1946 documents the women who served in the Women’s Army Corps. Every topic of importance to the WAC is covered in the correspondence, with an emphasis on issues such as recruiting, personnel matters like discipline and conduct, education, gender roles and race.

Southern Life and African American History, 1775-1915, Plantation Records 1 and 2
These 2 modules document the far-reaching impact of plantations on both the American South and the nation. Plantation records are both business records and personal papers because the plantation was both the business and the home for plantation owners.

Screenshot from FOLDER: 102597 -012-0012 Pinkerton criminal cases: Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch Gang bank robberies, First National Bank of Winnemucca

Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency Records, 1853-1999
During its colourful 150-year history, Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency, the oldest company of private investigators in the United States – founded by Allan Pinkerton in the 1850s – pursued some of the nation’s most notorious criminals, like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Jesse James, Alfred Brady, John Dillinger and countless others. This fascinating collection, digitized in History Vault from the Library of Congress holdings, includes files on some of the Pinkerton’s most well-known cases. It offers exciting research opportunities in criminology, sociology, the history of law enforcement and labor relations.

Law and Society Since the Civil War
This module consists of 11 collections from the Harvard Law School Library, highlighting three Supreme Court Justices, the first Black federal judge, high-profile cases, and insights into developing ideologies and laws, as far back as 1861 with the Papers of Oliver Wendell Holmes, which span from the Civil War to the Great Depression. The Papers of Louis D. Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter provide a behind-the-scenes view of the Supreme Court between 1919 and 1961. The Frankfurter Papers are of special note because they reveal how the Supreme Court approached the Brown v. Board of Education decision, the landmark school desegregation case that is well documented in other History Vault modules.

Revolutionary War and Early America: Collections from the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1721-1860
The success of the musical Hamilton has led to increased interest in this pivotal period in American history. This module on one of the most-studied periods in American history consists of 26 collections from the holdings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the first North American historical society and the first library to devote its primary attention to collecting Americana. The collections digitized by ProQuest from the holdings of the Massachusetts Historical Society focus on the Colonial Era, the Revolutionary War and the Early National Period, with some collections extending into the Civil War era.

Labor Unions, and the American Left in the 20th Century
This module consists of a wide range of collections documenting the American workers and labor unions in the 20th century, with a special emphasis on the interaction between workers and the U.S. federal government. The collection opens with Strike Files of the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as records on U.S. government surveillance of radical workers. Materials in this collection provide a view into the evolving policies of intervention in labor disputes and documentation on the major strikes between 1894-1920, as well as a window into the daily operations of private industry during a time of radical social change.

History Vault allows you to cross-search through all collections and modules at one time (which can be a useful way of finding documents in modules you may not have thought to look at) but you can also search or browse the individual modules within each theme.

To get an overview of how you can use History Vault why not watch this video on Researching Women in the Civil Rights Movement Using ProQuest History Vault.

As another example you can watch Researching Social Movements with Primary Sources (ProQuest History Vault) video.

And History Vault is just one platform, the Library has access to a wide and varied range of digital primary source databases that cover complimentary areas (and completely different). The Digital Primary Source and Archive Collections guide allows you to discover all resources available to you.

The Library has access to ProQuest History Vault until 31st December 2021 as part of ProQuest Access 350.

You can access ProQuest History Vault via the Databases A-Z list or Digital Primary Source and Archive Collections guide.

Access is only available to current students and staff at the University of Edinburgh.

Caroline Stirling – Academic Support Librarian for History, Classics and Archaeology

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ProQuest Access 350: 600 years of world history http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/hcalibrarian/2020/06/24/proquest-access-350-600-years-of-world-history/ http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/hcalibrarian/2020/06/24/proquest-access-350-600-years-of-world-history/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2020 11:01:17 +0000 http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/hcalibrarian/?p=3433 Continue reading ]]> I’m very pleased to let you know that University of Edinburgh Library has set up a new subscription with ProQuest that gives you access to almost all available ProQuest digital primary source databases until 31st December 2021.

ProQuest Access 350 allows you to explore 600 years of world history online and will help enrich learning, teaching and research at the University across a range of subject areas and topics including History, the Arts, Literature and Social Sciences.

Content includes:

  • Around 300 new primary source databases from ProQuest and Alexander Street Press
  • 230M+ pages of collections, spanning 600 years of history
  • Large collection of historical periodicals, with 325+ years of coverage
  • Archive of 50+ newspapers covering 350 years
  • Comprehensive collection of UK and US government documents
  • Increased collection diversity with databases focussing on black history, women’s history, LGBT+ history and indigenous history.

The Library is currently working on the huge task of integrating all of this new content into DiscoverEd, Databases A-Z, databases by subject, subject guide to primary sources and the subject guide to newspapers and magazines. This will take a bit of time but a number of databases have already been added.

We’re also planning to run a series of online seminars to open up this content to staff and students over the summer so look out for more details on this soon.

In the meantime why not take a look at the resources that will be becoming available via ProQuest Access 350 in the ProQuest Primary Sources Catalogue (pdf)? This does include databases the Library already has access to via ProQuest but also lists the vast number of new databases we will be getting.

You may also like to explore the huge range of digital primary source databases you already have access to at the Library via the Digital Primary Source and Archive Collections guide and the Newspapers, Magazines and Other News Sources guide.

Caroline Stirling – Academic Support Librarian for History, Classics and Archaeology

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On trial: State Papers Online Eighteenth Century http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/hcalibrarian/2020/05/22/on-trial-state-papers-online-eighteenth-century-2/ Fri, 22 May 2020 13:13:32 +0000 http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/hcalibrarian/?p=3412 Continue reading ]]> Thanks to a request from a PhD student in HCA the Library currently has extended trial access to State Papers Online: Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782 Parts I-IV from Gale. This covers the final section of the State Papers series from the National Archives in the UK before the series was closed and replaced by the Home Office and Foreign Office series in 1782.

You can access State Papers Online: Eighteenth Century via the E-resources trials page.
Access is available on and off-campus.

Trial access ends 30th June 2020.

State Papers Online: Eighteenth Century comes in 4 parts and we have access to all 4 during this trial.

  • Part I: State Papers Domestic, Military and Naval and the Registers of the Privy Council
    Part I focuses research on British domestic politics and society in an age punctuated by plots, rebellions, uprisings, and financial crises. Part I offers you online access to approximately 300,000 folios from the reigns of King George I, King George II, and part of the reign of King George III, plus military, naval, and plantation registers, sherriffs’ lists, and State Papers of Scotland and Ireland.
  • Part II: State Papers Foreign: Low Countries and Germany
    Part II expands on the domestic papers in Part I and presents the first section of the foreign papers during the reigns of George I, George II, and George III until 1782, when the State Papers series ends.
  • Part III: Western Europe
    Part III has papers relating to France, Portugal, Spain, Malta, the Italian States and Rome, Genoa, Tuscany, Venice, Savoy and Sardinia, Sicily and Naples. It also includes the Royal letters and Treaties series. Tehse are the papers written or received by the secretaries of state in their conduct of British diplomacy and intelligence gathering. They document the relationship of the Hanoverian monarchs with the rulers, governments and commerce of Western Europe. You will also find narratives of each country’s history running through the letters and reportt as events, debates, discussions, conversations and gossip are relayed back to London.
  • Part IV: Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Turkey
    Part IV covers nations and events at the borders of Europe and European power, through letters, memorials and treaties pertaining to Denmark, Sweden, Poland and Saxony, Prussia, Russia, Turkey and the Barbary States. It also includes papers sent to the British Secretaries of State from foreign ministers in England, and ‘confidential’ and intercepted letters, discussing wards, colonial ambitions and diplomatic alliances.

You can access these State Papers Online: Eighteenth Century via  E-resources trials.
Access is available on and off-campus.
Trial access ends 30th June 2020.
Feedback welcome.

The Library already has access to 2 collections from State Papers Online, Part II: The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Foreign, Scotland, Borders, Ireland and Registers of the Privy Council and The Stuart and the Cumberland Papers from the Royal Archives, Windsor Castle. You can access both of these via the Digital primary source and archive collections guide.

The Library is also trialling all other parts of the original State Papers Online database. This can be accessed via the E-resources trials page and is also available until 30th June 2020.

Please note, trial access to a resource is an opportunity for our staff and students to try a resource out and give feedback on its quality and usefulness. However, if we trial a resource this is not an indication that we plan to or will be able to purchase or subscribe to the resource in the near future.

Caroline Stirling – Academic Support Librarian for History, Classics and Archaeology

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New to the Library: Trismegistos http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/hcalibrarian/2020/05/18/new-to-the-library-trismegistos/ Mon, 18 May 2020 11:39:46 +0000 http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/hcalibrarian/?p=3396 Continue reading ]]> I’m happy to let you know that further to a request from staff in HCA the Library now has a subscription to Trismegistos, an online resource that aims to surmount barriers of language and discipline in the study of texts from the ancient world, particularly late period Egypt and the Nile valley (roughly BC 800 – 800 AD).

You can access Trismegistos via the Databases A-Z list and Classics subject guide.

The core component of Trismegistos (TM) is Trismegistos Texts, currently counting 823212 entries. When the database was created in 2005, it focused on providing information (metadata) on published papyrological documents from Graeco-Roman Egypt. Since then the geographical scope has been widened to the entire ancient world, the time period covered was broadened to between BC 800 and AD 800, and the database was expanded to include epigraphic material as well.

This means that Trismegistos increasingly wants to be a platform where information can be found about all texts from antiquity, thus facilitating cross-cultural and cross-linguistic research.

Several aspects of the Texts database have been elaborated in the course of successive projects and have become separate databases linked with the core Trismegistos Texts database.

  • Collections database
    Built on the Leuven Homepage of Papyrus Collections, this is a set of currently 4064 modern institutional and private collections of texts and their 255708 inventory numbers. It is searchable both separately and in the Texts database.
  • Archives database
    Built on the Leuven Homepage of Papyrus Archives, this is a set of currently 551 collections of texts in antiquity, mainly in Egypt, and the 19992 texts that are part of these archives. It is searchable separately, leading to the texts themselves.
  • People database
    Building on the Prosopographia Ptolemaica, this is a complex set of prosopographical and onomastic databases. It currently contains 511977 attestations of personal names of non-royal individuals living in Egypt between BC 800 and AD 800, including all languages and scripts and written on any surface.
  • Places database
    Expanding the geographic database of the Fayum project, this is a set of currently 56582 places in Egypt and increasingly also outside (in view of the expansion of TM to the ancient world in general). It contains the currently 228398 attestations of toponyms in texts from Egypt (BC 800 – AD 800), but is also linked to the provenance field in Trismegistos Texts.
  • Bibliography
    As abbreviations are often different in the various disciplines, a Bibliography has also started to be created which resolves many of the short references we use in Trismegistos.

For first time users have short video user guides available at https://www.trismegistos.org/academy/.

Trismegistos was a freely available resource for many years and parts of it are still available as open access but as of the start of 2020 they have had to implement access via subscriptions to institutions instead, as a way of ensuring a funding stream so they can keep the resource going.

You can access Trismegistos via the Databases A-Z list and Classics subject guide.

Access is only available to current students and staff at the University of Edinburgh.

Caroline Stirling – Academic Support Librarian for History, Classics and Archaeology

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On trial: State Papers Online http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/hcalibrarian/2020/05/14/on-trial-state-papers-online/ Thu, 14 May 2020 11:07:43 +0000 http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/hcalibrarian/?p=3389 Continue reading ]]> Thanks to a request from the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) the Library currently has trial access to 3 further collections from the State Papers Online database from Gale. State Papers Online offers original historical materials across the widest range of government concerns, from high level international politics and diplomacy to the charges against a steward for poisoning a dozen or more people.

You can access the 3 collections on trial via the E-resources trials page.
Access is available on and off-campus.

Trial access ends 30th June 2020.

The 3 collections the Library has trial access to are:

  • Part I: The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Domestic
    Part I delivers the complete series of State Papers Domestic for the Tudor era, encompassing every facet of early modern government, including social and economic affairs, law and order, religious policy, crown possessions, and intelligence. The collection is of immense value to researchers of religious history, chronicling social unrest in England as it pitched back and forth between the religious positions of its rulers: from the boy-king Edward VI’s promotion of the Reformation, to Mary I’s bloody reassertion of Catholicism and Elizabeth’s loyalty to Protestantism and enduring suspicion of Catholic plots.
  • Part III: The Stuarts and Commonwealth, James I – Anne I, 1603-1714: State Papers Domestic
    Part III is a collection of English government documents originating primarily from the seventeenth century. The Stuarts’ internal struggles come to life through a wealth of primary source documents from one of the most compelling and turbulent eras in Britain’s social, political, and religious history. Among the more than one million pages of manuscripts, researchers will find accounts of the English Civil War, the execution of Charles I, and the invasion of William of Orange.
  • Part IV: The Stuarts and Commonwealth, James I – Anne I, 1603-1714: State Papers Foreign, Ireland and Registers of the Privy Council
    Part IV is a collection of English government documents originating from the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The Stuart era was witness to great changes, civil war, and transformation, particularly affecting matters of religion and politics that are still influential today. State Papers Online, Part IV charts international affairs throughout periods of revolution and upheaval in Britain and Europe’s history.

You can access these 3 collections via  E-resources trials.
Access is available on and off-campus.
Trial access ends 30th June 2020.
Feedback welcome.

The Library already has access to 2 collections from State Papers Online, Part II: The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Foreign, Scotland, Borders, Ireland and Registers of the Privy Council and The Stuart and the Cumberland Papers from the Royal Archives, Windsor Castle. You can access both of these via the Digital primary source and archive collections guide.

Please note, trial access to a resource is an opportunity for our staff and students to try a resource out and give feedback on its quality and usefulness. However, if we trial a resource this is not an indication that we plan to or will be able to purchase or subscribe to the resource in the near future.

Caroline Stirling – Academic Support Librarian for History, Classics and Archaeology

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On trial: National Geographic Magazine Archive http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/hcalibrarian/2020/05/07/on-trial-national-geographic-magazine-archive/ Thu, 07 May 2020 09:18:02 +0000 http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/hcalibrarian/?p=3382 Continue reading ]]> Thanks to a request from a HCA student the Library currently has extended trial access to the National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-1994 from Gale. This databases allows you to explore over a century of iconic images and fascinating narratives that capture the wonder of our planet and beyond.

You can access National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-1994 from the E-resources trials page.
Access is available on and off-campus.

Trial access ends 30th June 2020.

As the official journal of the nonprofit National Geographic Society, National Geographic magazine built its reputation delivering the highest-quality photojournalism and cartography in the world.

As generations of researchers and fans will attest, the iconic monthly publication provides unparalleled, in-depth coverage of cultures, nature, science, technology, and more — making it an essential resource for educators and students as well as general readers.

You can access National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-1994 via  E-resources trials.
Access is available on and off-campus.
Trial access ends 30th June 2020.
Feedback welcome.

More recent issues of National Geographic can be accessed online via DiscoverEd.

Access is only available to current students and staff at University of Edinburgh.
You can access the full range of newspapers and magazines databases (both archive and current) via the Newspapers, magazines and other news sources guide.

Please note, trial access to a resource is an opportunity for our staff and students to try a resource out and give feedback on its quality and usefulness. However, if we trial a resource this is not an indication that we plan to or will be able to purchase or subscribe to the resource in the near future.

Caroline Stirling – Academic Support Librarian for History, Classics and Archaeology

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On trial: Gale Primary Sources (even more content!) http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/hcalibrarian/2020/04/28/on-trial-gale-primary-sources-even-more-content/ Tue, 28 Apr 2020 14:57:16 +0000 http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/hcalibrarian/?p=3360 Continue reading ]]> I’m very pleased to let you know that the Library has been given extended trial access to an extensive range of primary source databases and collections from Gale. This is an exciting opportunity to access a wide range of these digital primary sources that wouldn’t normally be available to us but also compliment the wide range of primary source databases we already have access to from Gale.

You can access all of these trial databases via the E-resources trials page.
Access is available on and off campus.

Trial access to these databases ends 30th June 2020.

Gale are a major publisher in primary source databases and the Library already has access to a vast range of material from them covering 100s of years of world history (see What do we already have access to from Gale?) but they have many more databases available that we have not purchased or subscribed to (unfortunately these databases are incredibly expensive).

We had already set up extended trial access to 4 of their databases (these are included in list below) but Gale have now provided trial access to an even larger number of their databases to us and while there may not be something for everyone, it’s probably not far off.

The following list is all the Gale databases currently on trial until 30th June 2020. You can access all of these from the E-resources trials page. You can also cross-search nearly all of these databases, as well as the majority of the Gale primary source databases we already have access to, via Gale Primary Sources.

  • American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society
  • Archives of Sexuality and Gender: International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture 
    [Note: this is the new fourth module. The Library already has access to the other 3 modules, LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 Part I and Part II, and Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century]
  • China and the Modern World
  • Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920
  • Financial Times Historical Archive 1888-2016
  • International Herald Tribune Historical Archive, 1887-2013
  • Making of the Modern World
  • National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-1994
  • Nineteenth Century Collections Online
    • Asia and the West
    • British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture
    • Children’s Literature and Childhood
    • Europe and Africa, Colonialism and Culture
    • Maps and Travel Literature
    • Photography: The World through the Lens
    • Religion, Reform, and Society
    • Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I and Part II
    • Women and Transnational Networks
    • [Note: the Library already has access to British Politics and Society and European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection]
  • Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
  • Political Extremism and Radicalism
  • Refugees, Relief, and Resettlement
  • Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926
  • Slavery and Anti-Slavery
  • The Daily Mirror Historical Archive
  • The Making of Modern Law
    • American Civil Liberties Union Papers
    • Foreign, Comparative, and International Law, 1600-1926
    • Foreign Primary Sources
    • Landmark Records and Briefs of the U.S. Courts of Appeals, 1950-1980
    • Primary Sources
    • Trials 1600-1926
    • [Note: the Library already has access to Legal Treatises, 1800-1926]
  • State Papers Online
    • Part I: The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Domestic
    • Part III: The Stuarts and Commonwealth, James I – Anne I, 1603-1714: State Papers Domestic
    • Part IV: The Stuarts and Commonwealth, James I – Anne I, 1603-1714: State Papers Foreign, Ireland and Registers of the Privy Council
    • [Note: the Library already has access to Part II: The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Foreign, Scotland, Borders, Ireland and Registers of the Privy Council and The Stuart and the Cumberland Papers from the Royal Archives, Windsor Castle]
  • State Papers Online: Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782 Parts I-IV
  • The Sunday Times Historical Archive 1822-2016
  • The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2016
  • Women’s Studies Archive

It’s worth taking a look at the entries for all of these on the E-resources trials page as sometimes the title of the database doesn’t always adequately reflect the range and scope of the material it contains. Using Gale Primary Sources to cross-search them all or a selection of them, including databases the Library already has access to from Gale, can be a good way of pinpointing specific databases you may want to do more advanced searching in or highlighting documents in databases you may not have considered searching.

What do we already have access to from Gale?

As mentioned already the Library has purchased access to or subscribed to a wide and varied range of digital primary source databases from Gale over a number of years. They are:

  • Archives Unbound (which includes over 300 databases)
  • Archives of Sexuality & Gender (parts 1-3)
  • Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
  • Nineteenth Century Collections Online
    • British Politics and Society
    • European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection
  • The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926
  • State Papers Online, 1509-1714: Part II
  • The Stuart and Cumberland Papers (State Papers Online)
  • 17th and 18th Century Burney Newspapers Collection
  • 19th Century UK Periodicals
  • British Library Newspapers
  • Daily Mail Historical Archive
  • The Economist Historical Archive
  • Illustrated London News Historical Archive
  • The Listener Historical Archive
  • Picture Post Historical Archive
  • The Times Digital Archive
  • Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive.

You can access all of the digital primary source databases we currently have access to from Gale and other publishers via the Digital primary source and archive collections guide and Newspapers, magazines and other news sources guide or the Databases A-Z list.

Remember the vast majority of Gale primary source databases* including those on trial access can be searched via Gale Primary Sources.
*Does not include State Papers Online databases.

You can access all of the trial databases via the E-resources trials page.
Access is available on and off campus.
Trial access to these databases ends 30th June 2020.
Feedback welcome.

Access is only available to current students and staff at University of Edinburgh.

Please note, trial access to a resource is an opportunity for our staff and students to try a resource out and give feedback on its quality and usefulness. However, if we trial a resource this is not an indication that we plan to or will be able to purchase or subscribe to the resource in the near future.

Caroline Stirling – Academic Support Librarian for History, Classics and Archaeology

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On trial: The John Murray Publishing Archive http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/hcalibrarian/2020/04/23/on-trial-the-john-murray-publishing-archive/ Thu, 23 Apr 2020 13:37:13 +0000 http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/hcalibrarian/?p=3349 Continue reading ]]> I’m pleased to let you know that we currently have extended trial access to Nineteenth Century Literary Society: The John Murray Publishing Archive from Adam Matthew Digital. This collection offers unprecedented digital access to the peerless archive of the historic John Murray publishing company.

You can access Nineteenth Century Literary Society: The John Murray Publishing Archive from  the E-resources trials page.
Access is available on and off-campus.

Trial access ends 16th July 2020.

The archive of the John Murray publishing company contains primary source material spanning the entirety of the long nineteenth century and document the golden era of the House of Murray from its inception in 1768. Records digitised in this resource predominantly focus on the tenure of John Murray II and his son, John Murray III, as they rose to prominence in the publishing trade, launching long-running series including the political periodical Quarterly Review, and publishing genre-defining titles such as Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, Austen’s Emma and Livingstone’s Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa.

The John Murray Archive houses the most complete archival collection of the famed poet, Lord Byron; his manuscripts and personal papers are a particular highlight of Nineteenth Century Literary Society, charting both literary triumph and personal scandal.

You can also trace the development of key Murray titles from initial discussions through to final drafts, browsing early advertisements and tracking sales successes – and failures – across financial papers and ledgers.

The John Murray Archive is housed at the National Library of Scotland, so while access is unavailable physically this trial gives you the perfect opportunity to explore the archive digitally. This resource also compliments another digital archive we have access to at the Library, Literary Print Culture: The Stationers’ Company Archive.

You can access Nineteenth Century Literary Society: The John Murray Publishing Archive via  E-resources trials.
Access is available on and off-campus.
Trial access ends 16th July 2020.
Feedback welcome.

Access is only available to current students and staff at University of Edinburgh.
You can access the full range of digital primary source and archive databases the Library has access to via the Digital primary source and archive collections guide.

Please note, trial access to a resource is an opportunity for our staff and students to try a resource out and give feedback on its quality and usefulness. However, if we trial a resource this is not an indication that we plan to or will be able to purchase or subscribe to the resource in the near future.

Caroline Stirling – Academic Support Librarian for History, Classics and Archaeology

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On Trial: The Sunday Times Historical Archive, 1822-2016 http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/hcalibrarian/2020/04/22/on-trial-the-sunday-times-historical-archive-1822-2016/ Wed, 22 Apr 2020 12:32:41 +0000 http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/hcalibrarian/?p=3339 Continue reading ]]> Thanks to a request from a HCA student I’m happy to let you know that the Library has extended trial access to The Sunday Times Historical Archive from Gale, giving you online access to the complete run of this important UK newspaper from 1822 until 2016.

You can access from The Sunday Times Historical Archive, 1822-2016 the E-resources trials page.
Access is available on and off-campus.

Trial access ends 30th June 2020.

The Sunday Times launched on the 20th October 1822 and since that first issue, the newspaper has consistently provided thoughtful analysis and commentary on the week’s news and society at large. Murder, theatre, sport and politics-all collide in its pages in an abundance of colourful detail.

In the nineteenth century, The Sunday Times had similar obsessions to much of the Victorian press, with extensive coverage of court cases, executions and grisly crimes to titillate its readers. However, it also developed a reputation for its considerable arts coverage, especially the London theatre and music scene.

In the twentieth century, the newspaper returned to its founding ethos of holding the powerful to account. In 1963, it formed the Insight Team, which became world famous for cutting-edge investigative journalism.

Despite the similarity of names, The Sunday Times was an entirely separate paper from The Times until 1st January 1967, when both papers came under the common ownership of Times Newspapers Ltd. To this day, The Sunday Times remains editorially independent from The Times with its own remit and perspective on the news.

You can access The Sunday Times Historical Archive, 1822-2016 via  E-resources trials.
Access is available on and off-campus.
Trial access ends 30th June 2020.
Feedback welcome.

Access is only available to current students and staff at University of Edinburgh.
You can access the full range of newspaper databases (archives and current content) that the Library already has at the Newspapers, magazines and other news sources guide.

Please note, trial access to a resource is an opportunity for our staff and students to try a resource out and give feedback on its quality and usefulness. However, if we trial a resource this is not an indication that we plan to or will be able to purchase or subscribe to the resource in the near future.

Caroline Stirling – Academic Support Librarian for History, Classics and Archaeology

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On Trial – The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative, and International Law, 1600-1926 http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/hcalibrarian/2020/04/15/on-trial-the-making-of-modern-law-foreign-comparative-and-international-law-1600-1926/ Wed, 15 Apr 2020 09:19:52 +0000 http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/hcalibrarian/?p=3332 Continue reading ]]> Thanks to a request from staff in HCA the Library current has extended trial access to The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative, and International Law, 1600-1926 from Gale. This resource provides you with instant, full-text access to primary source documents previously found only at the largest and oldest repositories.

You can access The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative, and International Law from the E-resources trials page.
Access is available on and off-campus.

Trial access ends 30th June 2020.

Foreign, Comparative, and International Law primarily covers the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but there are also several hundred classics in European international law since the seventeenth century. It brings together foreign, comparative, and international titles in a single resource and the collections complements those in The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926, which the Library already has access to.

The materials in this archive are drawn from three world-class American law libraries: the Yale Law Library, the George Washington University Law Library, and the Columbia Law Library.

You can access The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative, and International Law, 1600-1926 via  E-resources trials.
Access is available on and off-campus.
Trial access ends 30th June 2020.
Feedback welcome.

Access is only available to current students and staff at University of Edinburgh.

Please note, trial access to a resource is an opportunity for our staff and students to try a resource out and give feedback on its quality and usefulness. However, if we trial a resource this is not an indication that we plan to or will be able to purchase or subscribe to the resource in the near future.

Caroline Stirling – Academic Support Librarian for History, Classics and Archaeology

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