WISER courses in Week 5

Bodleian Libraries will be running the following workshops during week 5: WISER: Information Sources for African Studies [Monday 21 May 09.15 - 10.45] – This session will cover finding tools for locating African Studies materials, key portals and gateways for African Studies and online archives of primary texts.  Starting with a presentation the session will [...]

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History Thesis Fair in 3rd week

Thesis Fair: Thursday 3rd Week in Trinity Term – 10 May 2012, 2-4pm, Exam Schools All 2nd year history undergraduates are encouraged to drop in on the Thesis Fair which will give you the opportunity to discover the University’s vast information resources including library, archive and electronic materials. Library experts and academic historians will be [...]

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Early English Books Online offers free training webinar

Early English Books Online (EEBO) – Training Webinar   Hosted by Rebecca Price, ProQuest Training and Support Team   Digitised directly from the UMI Early English Books collection in microform, Early English Books Online (EEBO) presents classic early English works as they appeared in their original format and includes works ranging from Galileo to Purcell [...]

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French history: special issue in honour of Robin Briggs

Oxford’s own Robin Briggs has had a special issue of the French History published in his honour. As Mr Briggs is a former Chair of the Committee of Library Provision for History, it is a pleasure for the HFL to bring this special issue to our readers’ attention. Vol. 25 (4) Dec 2011 publishes essays [...]

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Mon 21 Nov @ 5.30pm: Classifying the world: John Wilkins and the invention of the universal language

MAGDALEN LIBRARY SEMINARS ‘Classifying the world: John Wilkins and the invention of a universal language’ Dr. Tabitha Tuckett (Magdalen College, Oxford) Monday 21 November, 7th week, 5.30pm Summer Common Room, Magdalen College, Oxford Historians are warmly invited to the third in the new series of Magdalen Library Seminars on the College’s library collections and their [...]

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Conference 22-24 March 2012: How the secularization of religious houses transformed the libraries of Europe, 16th-19th Centuries

How the secularization of religious houses transformed the libraries of Europe, 16th-19th centuries Centre for the Study of the Book, Bodleian Libraries Conference at St Anne’s College, Oxford, 22-24 March 2012 Convenors: Richard Sharpe (Oxford); Cristina Dondi (Oxford); Dorit Raines (Venice) What impact did the closure of monasteries and the dispersal of their collections have [...]

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New: State Papers Online 2, The Spectator 1828-2000, Early European Books 2 and many more

It gives us great pleasure to announce some end-of-year purchases of major databases. They can all be accessed via OxLIP+ and will be added to SOLO shortly. Oxford users have remote access and should use their Single Sign-On username and password. All other readers are welcome to use the databases in any of the Bodleian [...]

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Early modern historians: Discover Early English Books Online

Early modern historians: Discover Early English Books Online (EEBO) Friday 17 June (week 7), 14:15-15:30 – BOOK HERE EEBO is an important database of early printed books from 1475-1700. If you need tracts, texts and pamphlets written in Britain and colonial America in this time, then this hands-on session will show how to search, manipulate [...]

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ARTstor news: Additional images of European architecture and sculpture images by Sarah N. James

These ARTstor additions should be of interest to historians of medieval and early modern English and European history: “ARTstor is collaborating with Sarah N. James to add more than 450 images of Italian architecture and painting and more than 400 images of English art and architecture to the Digital Library. The new images will join [...]

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Connected Histories: Sources for British History, 1500-1900

Launched on 1 April Connected Histories: Sources for Building British History, 1500-1900 is a federated search engine to search in a single search a wide range of distributed digital resources relating to early modern and nineteenth-century British history. The following 11 resources are included: British History Online: The digital library of primary and secondary sources [...]

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