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British Library Makes 40,000 Historical Maps Available Online

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A team of cataloguers, curators, conservators, and imaging specialists at the British Library (BL) has completed a seven-year project to digitize a collection of early maps from its Topographical Collection of King George III, aka “K. Top.”

The K. Top collection encompasses 300+ years, spanning 1500 to 1824, of printed and hand-drawn maps, architectural drawings, and more.

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A team of cataloguers, curators, conservators, and imaging specialists at the British Library (BL) has completed a seven-year project to digitize a collection of early maps from its Topographical Collection of King George III, aka "K. Top."

The K. Top collection encompasses 300+ years, spanning 1500 to 1824, of printed and hand-drawn maps, architectural drawings, and more. The images are available via the BL's digital Flickr Commons collection to support "experimentation and reuse of the Library's data and digital collections in exciting and creative new ways," according to the BL.

Highlights of newly digitized collection include a manuscript map of New York City presented to the future James II in 1664 (pictured above); the earliest comprehensive land-use map of London from 1800; and James Cook's large manuscript map of the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, 1763.

Tom Harper, lead curator of antiquarian mapping at the BL, commented, "This is a momentous and intriguing set of early maps and views which provides multiple windows into the world of previous centuries. We're pleased to have been able to make this outstanding collection available through cataloguing and digitisation and to enable aspects of Britain's past to be more fully understood."

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British Library Makes 40,000 Historical Maps Available Online

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A team of cataloguers, curators, conservators, and imaging specialists at the British Library (BL) has completed a seven-year project to digitize a collection of early maps from its Topographical Collection of King George III, aka "K. Top." The K. Top collection encompasses 300+ years, spanning 1500 to 1824, of printed and hand-drawn maps, architectural drawings, and more.

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The Bodleian Libraries’ collections are extraordinary and significant—both from a scholarly point of view and as material that has an historic and aesthetic richness that holds value for non-academic users. Each year the Libraries serve more than 65,000 readers, over 40% of them from beyond the University, while its critically-acclaimed exhibitions attract almost 100,000 visitors annually. In an effort to make portions of our collections open to a wide variety of users from around the world for learning, teaching and research, the Bodleian Libraries have been digitizing library content for nearly twenty years. The result is over 650,000 freely available digital objects and almost another 1 million images awaiting release.

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Archival material relating to the formal admission of women to the University of Oxford, including admissions records, annual reports, calendars, photographs, scrapbooks, minutes and letters.

October 2020 marked one-hundred years since women were granted the right to matriculate and therefore to take degrees at Oxford. Despite the significance of this landmark year, women had studied at the University long before 1920. In fact, they had been making their mark on the University and advocating for women's access to an Oxford education since the 1860s.

Education and Activism: Women at Oxford, 1878-1920, is a digital archive project that commemorates the centenary year by bringing together records of the former women's colleges (Lady Margaret Hall, Somerville, St Anne's, St Hilda's and St Hugh's) into a central digital archive. Through the digitization of more than 7,000 archival images, this project will change the way that we understand and research the history of higher education in Oxford, the United Kingdom and beyond.

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Archival material relating to the formal admission of women to the University of Oxford, including admissions records, annual reports, calendars, photographs, scrapbooks, minutes and letters. October 2020 marked one-hundred years since women were granted the right to matriculate and therefore to take degrees at Oxford.

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British History Online is a collection of nearly 1300 volumes of primary and secondary content relating to British and Irish history, and histories of empire and the British world. BHO also provides access to 40,000 images and 10,000 tiles of historic maps of the British Isles.

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The Library at the University of Southampton has a particularly strong collection of British Parliamentary Publications known as the Ford Collection. The Collection is named after the late Professor Percy Ford, who, with his wife Dr Grace Ford, brought the collection to Southampton and conducted research based on the collection.

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The Library at the University of Southampton has a particularly strong collection of British Parliamentary Publications known as the Ford Collection. The Collection is named after the late Professor Percy Ford, who, with his wife Dr Grace Ford, brought the collection to Southampton and conducted...

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The BCA is a national collection of socio-political cartoons from British newspapers and magazines, plus comic strips, newspaper cuttings, books and magazines.

The online catalogue contains over 150,000 cartoons either held at the BCA or by other institutions.

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Welcome to the British Cartoon Archive (BCA) catalogue.

The BCA is a national collection of socio-political cartoons from British newspapers and magazines, plus comic strips, newspaper cuttings, books and magazines.

The online catalogue contains over 150,000 cartoons either held at the BCA or by other institutions. Often you can see various versions of the same cartoon from the sketch to the artwork to the various published versions. The cataloguing includes subject terms and identifies the people depicted in the cartoons.

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Welcome to the British Cartoon Archive (BCA) catalogue. The BCA is a national collection of socio-political cartoons from British newspapers and magazines, plus comic strips, newspaper cuttings, books and magazines. The online catalogue contains over 150,000 cartoons either held at the BCA or by other institutions.

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British Diplomatic Oral History Programme

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British Diplomatic Oral History Programme

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The British Diplomatic Oral History Programme (BDOHP) creates a valuable new body of research material for the study of British diplomatic history. It was established in 1995 by Malcolm McBain, a retired Diplomatic Service officer, with the approval and co-operation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).

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The British Diplomatic Oral History Programme (BDOHP) creates a valuable new body of research material for the study of British diplomatic history. It was established in 1995 by Malcolm McBain, a retired Diplomatic Service officer, with the approval and co-operation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).

A searchable indexed catalogue to transcripts of the BDOHP interviews is available on the Janus webserver (which contains catalogues of archives and manuscripts held in Cambridge), while the transcripts themselves are available below.

This material, which is being preserved and conserved at the Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge, offers unparalleled insights into how British diplomats function and what really happened at crucial moments in their careers. It affords a unique account of important, and often unrecorded, events in international relations. It is increasingly recognised as a source of raw material by scholars, writers, journalists and researchers.

The BDOHP interviews former diplomats or other officials who have played a significant role in events bearing on international relations. The tendency towards greater openness in government has strengthened in recent years. Interviewees are encouraged by their interviewers to be candid and not to allow their instinctive respect for confidentiality to inhibit a frank description of what it is they have contributed to British diplomacy. They are however assured that what they say will not be published or put into the public domain without their permission or prior FCO clearance.

To strengthen the confidence of interviewees in the BDOHP, the interviewers are also retired diplomats or their wives. These interviewers understand the desirability of obtaining a first hand account covering the ground fairly and illuminating the atmosphere of a broad spectrum of posts around the world during the conduct of international relations. Transcripts of the interviews provide valuable details and insights into the daily workings of diplomacy and of Whitehall which may not otherwise be available to outside observers and commentators. Many such details, taken for granted in contemporary documents, are often omitted from the official records when these are eventually released into the public domain.

For further details, please contact:

Katharine Thomson
Churchill Archives Centre
Churchill College
Cambridge
CB3 0DS
United Kingdom

Telephone: (01223) 336166
Fax: (01223) 336135
Katharine.Thomson@chu.cam.ac.uk
Supported by Chalke Valley History Trust

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BENNETT, Gillian, OBE MA FRHistS (b 1951)
Joined the Foreign Office Historical Section in 1972: Research Assistant working on the official documentary history of British foreign policy, 'Documents on British Foreign Policy 1919-1939'; Assistant Editor (1983-85); Editor (1985-90). Foreign Office's Strategic Planning Unit (1991-92); North America and Canada Desk's Research and Analysis Department (1992-93); Performance Assessment Unit (1993-95); Chief Historian, Records and Historical Department (1995-2005). Visiting fellowship at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 2002-03, to work on her biography of Sir Desmond Morton, 'Churchill's Man of Mystery: Desmond Morton and the World of Intelligence'; Chief Historian for two more years, then part of the research team working on the official history of the Secret Intelligence Service; involved in a range of research projects for various Government departments from 2008 onwards; the 2006-07 distinguished visiting fellow lecturer at the Joint Services Command Staff College. Her book, 'Six Moments of Crisis: Inside British Foreign Policy', was published in 2013.
Interviewed 2019.
DOHP 187 1 file

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CRAWFORD, Charles Graham, CMG (b.1954)
Diplomat. Entry to Diplomatic Service, 1979; FCO (South East Asia Department), 1979-80; 2nd, then 1st Secretary, Belgrade, 1981-84; FCO speechwriter, 1985-87; 1st Secretary, Pretoria and Cape Town, 1987-91; FCO (Soviet, then Eastern Department), 1991-93; Political Counsellor, Moscow, 1993-96; Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1996-98; Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard, 1998-99; Deputy Political Director, FCO, 1999-2000; Director (South East Europe), FCO, 2000; Ambassador to Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, subsequently Serbia and Montenegro, 2001-03; Ambassador to Poland, 2003-07.
Interviewed 2008.
DOHP 117 1 file
See also Crawford's website (as referred to in his interview), www.charlescrawford.biz.

CROSS, "Jasper" James Richard, CMG (b.1921)
Diplomat. Transcript of taped memoir of his experiences as Senior Trade Commissioner and head of the British Government Office in Montreal, Canada, 1968-70, his kidnapping in 1970 by a terrorist group, the FLQ, and also on the work of the Trade Commission Service in general.
Taped memoir.
DOHP 19 1 file
See also a copy of a debriefing interview between James Cross and J M Davey, aide to Pierre Trudeau, following Cross's release by the Front de Libération du Québec.
Correspondence: Debriefing of James Cross, December 1970
© Government of Canada. Reproduced with the permission of the Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada (2009).
Source: Library and Archives Canada/Pierre Elliott Trudeau fonds/Volume 25, file 25.

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FAIRWEATHER, Sir Patrick Stanislaus, KCMG (b 1936)
National Service in Royal Marines and Parachute Regiment, 1955-57. Entered Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1965; 2nd Secretary, Rome, 1966-69; FCO, 1969-70; 1st Secretary (Economic), Paris, 1970-73; FCO, 1973-75; 1st Secretary and Head of Chancery, Vientiane, 1975-76; 1st Secretary, UK Representation to EEC, Brussels, 1976-78; Counsellor (Economic and Commercial), Athens, 1978-83; Head of European Community Department (Internal), FCO, 1983-85; Ambassador to Angola, 1985-87; Assistant Under-Secretary of State, FCO, 1987-90; Deputy Under-Secretary of State (Middle East/Africa), FCO, 1990-92; Ambassador to Italy and (non-resident) to Albania, 1992-96.
Interviewed 2011.
DOHP 133 1 file

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JAY, Lord Jay of Ewelme, GCMG (b 1946)
Diplomat. Ministry of Overseas Development, 1969-73; UK Delegation, International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Washington, 1973-75; Ministry of Overseas Development, 1976-78; First Secretary (Aid), New Delhi, 1978-81; Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1981-85 (Planning staff, 1981-82, Private Secretary to Permanent Under-Secretary, 1982-85); Counsellor: Cabinet Office, 1985-87; Counsellor: (Financial and Commercial), Paris, 1987-90; Assistant Under-Secretary of State for EC Affairs, FCO, 1990-93; Deputy Under-Secretary of State (Director for EC and Economic Affairs), FCO, 1994-96; Ambassador to France, 1996-2001; Permanent Under-Secretary of State, FCO and Head of the Diplomatic Service, 2002-06; Prime Minister's Personal Representative for G8 Summits, 2005-06.
Interviewed 2007.
DOHP 123 2 files
Lord Jay gave a second interview in 2016 relating to his time as Ambassador to Paris, including the aftermath of the death of the Princess of Wales. See also his evidence before the Chilcot Inquiry on the Iraq War, June 2010.

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LOGAN, Sir Donald Arthur, KCMG (b. 1917)
Diplomat. Joined the Foreign (subsequently Diplomatic) Service, in December 1945, and his diplomatic career included: Foreign Office, 1945-1947; HM Embassy, Tehran [Iran], 1947-1951; Foreign Office, 1951-1953; Assistant Political Agent, Kuwait, 1953-1955; Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs [John Selwyn-Lloyd], 1956-1958; HM Embassy, Washington, 1958-1960; HM Ambassador to Guinea, 1960-1962; Foreign Office, 1962-1964; Information Counsellor, British Embassy, Paris [France] 1964-1970; Ambassador to Bulgaria, 1970-1973; Deputy Permanent UK Representative to NATO, 1973-1975; Ambassador and Permanent Leader, UK Delegation to UN Conference on Law of the Sea, 1976-1977; Leader, UK delegation to Conference on Marine Living Resources of Antarctica, Buenos Aires [Argentina] and Canberra [Australia], 1978-1980.
Interviewed 2002.
DOHP 62 1 file
Please note that this transcript is an excerpt from Logan's memoirs. See also account of the Suez Crisis by Logan in MISC 30: more details are available on the Janus webserver.

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McBAIN, (David) Malcolm, LVO (b.1928)
Diplomat. Ministry of Civil Aviation appointments in Tripoli, Libya, 1949-51, New Delhi, 1953-54; Diplomatic Service: New Delhi, 1958-61; Kenya, 1963-67; Thailand, 1968-75; Brunei, 1978-81; Texas, 1981-84; Ambassador to Madagascar, 1984-87.
Interviewed 2000.
DOHP 50 1 file
Also includes a chapter from Malcolm McBain's memoirs relating to his time as Ambassador to Madagascar.

MORRIS, Warwick (b.1948)
Entered Diplomatic Service, 1969; Third Secretary, Paris, 1972-74; Korean language training, Yonsei University, Seoul, 1975-76; Second Secretary, Seoul, 1977-79; Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1979-83; First Secretary, 1982; First Secretary (Commercial), Mexico City, 1984-87; Head of Chancery, Seoul, 1988-91; Deputy Head, Far Eastern Department, FCO, 1991-93; Counsellor, 1993, Head, 1994, Permanent Under Secretary's Department, FCO; Economic and Commercial Counsellor, New Delhi, 1995-98; Royal College of Defence Studies, 1999; Ambassador to Vietnam, 2000-03; Ambassador to South Korea, 2003-08.
Originally interviewed 2009, but this was never completed; memoir submitted in 2020.
DOHP 194 1 file

MUNRO, Colin Andrew, CMG (b.1946)
Diplomat. Assistant Principal, Board of Inland Revenue, 1968-69; Diplomatic Service, 1969; Foreign and Commonwealth Office (SW Pacific Department), 1969-71; Third, later Second, Secretary, Bonn, 1971-73; FCO (Commonwealth Co-ordination Department), 1973; Second, later First, Secretary, Kuala Lumpur, 1973-77; FCO (Defence Department), 1977-79; FCO, Private Secretary to Minister of State (Peter Blaker), 1979-80; Head of Chancery, Bucharest, 1981-82; FCO (Western European Department), 1983-84, Assistant Head of Department, 1985-87; Deputy Head of Mission, East Berlin, 1987-90; Consul General, Frankfurt, 1990-93; FCO (Head of OSCE and Council of Europe Department), 1993-97; Ambassador to Republic of Croatia, 1997-2000; Deputy High Representative, Mostar, 2001; Royal College of Defence Studies, 2002; UK Permanent Representative to OSCE, Vienna, 2003-07.
Interviewed 2009.
DOHP 122 1 file
Also includes the text of an article by Munro: Britain, Berlin, German Unification and the fall of the Soviet Empire, for the Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, London, vol XXXI, No.2, November 2009.

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O'KEEFFE, (Peter) Laurence, CMG, CVO (b.1931)
Diplomat. HM Customs and Excise, 1953-62; 2nd, later 1st Secretary (Economic), Bangkok, 1962-5; FO, 1965-8; 1st Secretary and Head of Chancery, Athens, 1968-72; Commercial Counsellor, Jakarta, 1972-5; Head of Hong Kong and Indian Ocean Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1975-6; Director-General, British Information Services, and Deputy Consul General (Information), New York, 1976-8; Counsellor, Nicosia, 1978-81; Ambassador to Senegal, 1982-5, and concurrently (non-resident) to Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania and Cape Verde, 1982-5; Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, 1988-91.
Interviewed 1998.
DOHP 31 1 file
See also O'Keeffe's lecture And the Walls Came Tumbling Down on Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution, given at St Antony's College, Oxford, in November 1996.

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PARSONS, Sir Anthony Derrick, GCMG, LVO, MC (1922-1996)
Diplomat. First Secretary, Turkey, 1955-9, Jordan, 1959-60, Egypt, 1960, Sudan, 1964-5; Political Agent, Bahrain, 1965-9; Counsellor and Head of Chancery, UK Mission to UN, 1969-71; Ambassador to Iran, 1974-9; UK Permanent Representative to UN, 1979-82; Foreign Policy Adviser to Prime Minister, 1982-3.
DOHP 10 1 file

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"A unique account of important, and often unrecorded, events in international relations."

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Proceedings of the Old Bailey : London's Central Criminal Court, 1674 to 1913.

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Proceedings of the Old Bailey : London's Central Criminal Court, 1674 to 1913.

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The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) lists over 480,000 items published between 1473 and 1800

mainly, but not exclusively, in English published mainly in the British Isles and North America from the collections of the British Library and over 2,000 other libraries

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This is the home page of the British Library's English Short Title Catalogue. The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) lists oever 480,000 items published between 1473 and 1800, published mainly in the British Isles and North America and mainly in English. The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and its leading research library.

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Domesday is Britain’s earliest public record. It contains the results of a huge survey of land and landholding commissioned by William I in 1085. Domesday is by the far the most complete record of pre-industrial society to survive anywhere in the world and provides a unique window on the medieval world.

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Use this website to view digitised copies of manuscripts and archives in the British Library's collections, with descriptions of their contents.

Explore the Library's latest major acquisition, the St Cuthbert Gospel.

Some other highlights include the Harley Golden Gospels, Beowulf, the Silos Apocalypse, Leonardo da Vinci's Notebook, the Petit Livre d'Amour and the Golf Book.

To consult the British Library's main catalogue of manuscript material visit Search our Catalogue Archives and Manuscripts. Selected images of illuminated manuscripts can be found in our Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts.

The content in the Digitised Manuscripts viewer is intended for viewing for research and study purposes. For any other use please see the British Library website's terms of use, which can be found here.

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Use this website to view digitised copies of manuscripts and archives in the British Library's collections, with descriptions of their contents. Explore the Library's latest major acquisition, the St Cuthbert Gospel. Some other highlights include the Harley Golden Gospels, Beowulf, the Silos Apocalypse, Leonardo da Vinci's Notebook, the Petit Livre d'Amour and the Golf Book.

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Search over one million objects from the V&A Collections including ceramics, fashion, furniture, glass, metalwork, paintings, photographs, prints, sculpture, and textiles. Objects featured here include those from recent publications, famous and less well known objects, and those which cannot be permanently on display.

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The Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photography (CUCAP) is the result of airborne survey campaigns which were started in 1947 by the pioneering JK St Joseph. Since then the collection has grown to almost 500,000 images of obliques and verticals in black and white, colour and infra-red. Virtually the whole of Britain has been covered, with the obliques depicting a wide variety of landscapes and features and the verticals being of survey quality, can be used in mapping projects.

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The Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photography (CUCAP) is the result of airborne survey campaigns which were started in 1947 by the pioneering JK St Joseph. Since then the collection has grown to almost 500,000 images of obliques and verticals in black and white, colour and infra-red. Virtually the whole of Britain has been covered, with the obliques depicting a wide variety of landscapes and features and the verticals being of survey quality, can be used in mapping projects.

Some of the uses of CUCAP images include archaeology, geology, social history, law (land/border disputes), environmental issues (coastal erosion), planning as well as general interest.

Explore some of the very best images in the collection.

Browse 450,000+ clickable locations.

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A restricted number of medium resolution jpegs from the Collection are available for download through the Cambridge University Digital Library website under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC) license. We are, however, currently unable to deal with requests for high-resolution versions of these images for publication, other than for press purposes.

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Aerial photos from around the UK and beyond

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The Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photography (CUCAP) is the result of airborne survey campaigns which were started in 1947 by the pioneering JK St Joseph. Since then the collection has grown to almost 500,000 images of obliques and verticals in black and white, colour and infra-red.

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Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Histories

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Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Histories

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This resource contains a hyperlinked list of National Archives current resources for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic histories on The National Archives website. It includes education resources, exhibitions, research guides, blog posts and podcasts by staff and external writers and links to external websites.

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View AP Archive’s videos via this channel – the collection offers 1.7 million global news and entertainment video stories, which date back to 1895.

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The Sainsbury Archive documents the history of Sainsbury’s from its foundation in Drury Lane in 1869, but also provides a unique record of the transformation that has occurred in retailing since the mid-19th century, and the impact of these changes on society.

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Each pin represents the approximate location of one of 142 homicides cases in late medieval London. Click on a pin to open a window that displays the story behind the event, based on the original record produced by the Coroner. For more information on how to use the map, visit this page.

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UPDATE! The project has progressed thanks to funding and it has now a dedicated website showcasing two more maps: York and Oxford! London, York and Oxford maps have been created with new information and there are podcasts to dramatise interesting cases.

Visit https://medievalmurdermap.co.uk/ and enjoy more interactive maps, background information and podcasts. The original London map won't be updated. You can also follow the dedicated Twitter/X account of the new website at @MediMurderMaps.

Each pin represents the approximate location of one of 142 homicides cases in late medieval London. Click on a pin to open a window that displays the story behind the event, based on the original record produced by the Coroner. For more information on how to use the map, visit this page. If you are referencing our map, please read the note at the bottom of the page. You can listen to the launch lecture here.

Google Chrome is the best browser for enjoying full functionality of this map as it was built using Google Maps JavaScript API framework. Other browsers will offer a different user experience depending on their compatibility with this framework.

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The Cornell University Witchcraft Collection

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The Cornell University Witchcraft Collection

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Part of Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell's Witchcraft Collection contains over 3,000 titles documenting the history of the Inquisition and the persecution of witchcraft, primarily in Europe.

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Cornell University Library Witchcraft Collection

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Significant in the collection are a small and extremely rare number of works by theologians who opposed the Inquisition, such as those of Cornelius Loos, the first theologian in Germany to write against the witch hunts.

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Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707 (RPS)

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Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707 (RPS)

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A fully searchable database containing the proceedings of the Scottish parliament from the first surviving act of 1235 to the union of 1707.

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The many-headed monster is a collaborative effort focusing on English society and culture in the early modern period.

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Documents from Medieval and Early Modern England from the National Archives in London.

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Early Modern Manuscripts Online, or EMMO, is a multi-faceted project funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) that will provide scholars and the general public with convenient web access to transcriptions, images, and metadata for a substantial number of English manuscripts from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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Early Modern Manuscripts Online (EMMO) - Folgerpedia

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The EMMO project will make a variety of rare manuscripts from the Folger Shakespeare Library's premier collection available to users for free via an easy, searchable web site with high-quality images and consistent transcriptions of letters, diaries, wills, coats of arms, literary pieces, recipe books, miscellanies, and more.

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Guide to Online Primary Sources: Medieval

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Guide to Online Primary Sources: Medieval

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Subject listings of primary sources available online: free web collections as well as UCSD subscription-based resources.

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LibGuides: Guide to Online Primary Sources: Medieval

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Subject listings of primary sources available online: free web collections as well as UCSD subscription-based resources. Includes a custom Google search engine to keyword search across many of the listed sites.

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These records are the unit war diaries of the British Army in the First World War and are held by The National Archives in record series WO 95.

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Contains material relating to all aspects of travelling popular entertainment. The Archive holds 150,000 photographic images, 4,000 books and journals and over 20,000 items of ephemera including posters, handbills and programmes. Additionally the collection holds items of original artwork, early film, audio visual material and important family and business records.

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Collections at the National Fairground and Circus Archive - National Fairground and Circus Archive - The University of Sheffield

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Home > National Fairground and Circus Archive > Collections at the National Fairground and Circus Archive

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Explore London’s Victorian-era street culture, social reform and underworld.
Access from home with State Library membership (you will need to create an account with SLV to access this database)

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Leonard A. Lauder collection of Raphael Tuck & Sons postcards

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Leonard A. Lauder collection of Raphael Tuck & Sons postcards

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A window onto a rapidly changing society and a way to better understand how Edwardian-era British society understood itself and its place in the world.

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Home - Leonard A. Lauder collection of Raphael Tuck & Sons postcards

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In the first decade of the 20th century, Britain was at the peak of its power yet also on the verge of change.