Great War Centenary Talk on Friday 18 May

Speaker: Katie Longo (Balliol College, Oxford) Title: Towards to Great War Centenary: selections for an exhibition Location: Seminar Room, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford Date: Friday 18 May 1pm On Friday 18 May Katie Longo will give a talk, Towards the Great War Centenary: selections for an exhibition (1:00 pm, Seminar Room, Pitt Rivers Museum).  This [...]

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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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Save Oxford Medicine Project catalogues papers from the Rhodes House Library

Newly catalogued papers from the Rhodes House Library Three collections of personal papers from the Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies have recently been catalogued byt the Save Oxford Medicine Project and made available to researchers. The letters, written by British doctors and nurses working in various parts of Africa in the second half [...]

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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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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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*New* Mass Observation Online

We are pleased to announce that our colleagues in Social Sciences have bought access to Mass Observation Online. An incredibly useful source for the study of everyday lives of ordinary people in Britain, Mass Observation Online provides online access to material from the archive. It includes the entire File Report sequence 1937-1972, access to all [...]

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