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- House of Commons / House of Lords Parliamentary Papers, Index
Access to the bibliographic details of all House of Commons and Lords parliamentary papers published from the beginning of 1987. This information can be used to locate the relevant microfiche in the Official Documents microform collection located in the Chifley Library at this call number:
CHIFLEY OD reference J301.M37.
- Humanities Full Text
Provides full text, abstracts and bibliographic indexing of scholarly sources in the humanities and specialized magazines. Source documents include: feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama, poetry, book reviews, reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, and radio and television programs.
- ICSD
- Immigrations, migrations and refugees: Global Perspectives, 1941–1996
A searchable digital archive that covers all aspects of 20th-century human migration. The news and analysis comes from reports gathered every day between the early 1940s and 1996 by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, a U.S. government organization that became part of the CIA. These include translated and English-language radio and television broadcasts (transcripts), newspapers, periodicals and government documents
- Independent Labour Party Records, 1893-1960
The Independent Labour Party (ILP) was a British left-wing political party founded in 1893. The ILP was affiliated with the Labour Party from 1906 to 1932. This collection contains minute books, annual reports, committee reports, conference resolutions, and weekly notes for speakers from the party’s archive. These documents cover a wide range of subjects, from questions of war and peace to housing and trade unionism. They provide an excellent insight into the early years of the Labour movement in Britain.
- India, Raj & Empire
Drawing upon the manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland this resource documents the history of South Asia between the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 and the granting of independence to India and Pakistan in 1947.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - Informit Indigenous Collection
This multidisciplinary resource offers both topical and historical issues within Indigenous studies, with material from Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, North America and the Pacific.
- Inorganic Crystal Structure Database
- Jacoby online
Brill's New Jacoby is a fully-revised and enlarged edition of Jacoby’s Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker I-III, providing new texts of the ancient historians in many instances as well as several new historians and many new fragments of existing historians that were either unknown to Jacoby or excluded by him. Especially important is that for the first time ever commentaries are provided on the final 248 historians in FGrHist I-III, which Jacoby was unable to prepare before his death. In addition, and also for the first time, Brill's New Jacoby presents facing English translations of all the testimonia and fragments, new, critical commentaries on all the testimony and fragments, and a brief encyclopedia-style entry about each historian’s life and works, with a select bibliography.
- Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newspapers: Perspectives on Day-to-Day Life
This is a collection of 25 newspapers produced by the Japanese-Americans interned at assembly centers and relocation centers around America during World War II. They provide a unique look into the daily lives of the people who were held in these camps. Included are articles written in English and Japanese, typed, handwritten and drawn. They advertise community events, provide logistical information about the camps and relocation, report on news from the community, and include editorials.
- JSTOR Hebrew Journals
Developed in collaboration with the University of Haifa and the National Library of Israel. Includes Tarbiz, the only Hebrew academic journal devoted to the entire range of Jewish Studies, and Zion, continuously published since its founding in 1935-36.
- JSTOR Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa
The liberation of Southern Africa and the dismantling of the Apartheid regime was one of the major political developments of the 20th century, with far-reaching consequences for people throughout Africa and around the globe. This collection focuses on the complex and varied liberation struggles in the region, with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It brings together materials from various archives and libraries throughout the world documenting colonial rule, dispersion of exiles, international intervention, and the worldwide networks that supported successive generations of resistance within the region.
- JSTOR World Heritage Sites: Africa
World Heritage Sites: Africa links visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African heritage sites. The materials in World Heritage Sites: Africa serve researchers in African studies, anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art history, Diaspora studies, folklore and literature, geography, and history, as well as those focused on geomatics, advanced visual and spatial technologies, historic preservation, and urban planning. The collection is also a tool for museums, libraries, NGOs, and government organizations that manage or oversee cultural heritage sites, as well as for experts and professionals engaged in the conservation and management of such sites.
- Korea: Records of the U.S. Department of State
This archive documents Korea under Japanese occupation through the postwar period. Japan annexed Korea in 1910, and in the period 1931 to 1945 it ruled Korea by a strict military regime with complete cultural assimilation the order of the day The euphoria following Japan's defeat, and Korea's liberation, in 1945 was short lived as Soviet and American policy makers divided Korea under a joint protectorship. The Korean War, which broke out in 1950, resulted in a strategic stalemate, and the unwillingness of the United Nations to risk a larger conflict with China and perhaps the Soviet Union, ultimately resulted in a 1953 armistice, with Korea divided along roughly prewar lines. Documents from the U.S. Department of State, Division of Far Eastern Affairs, and the U.S. Department of Commerce include: "Annual Report of the Administration of Chosen, 1927-1928: Control of Opium"; "Morphine Addicts in Chosen"; laws and regulations on narcotics; an agricultural report focusing on rice production (1939); issues of repatriation of American citizens from "the Japanese Empire and from Japanese-controlled areas of the Far East" (June 1943); a report from U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk on a visit of a Japanese delegation, in April 1962, to South Korea and to North Korea outlining "… the Department's continuing need for intelligence on North Korea. Archival documents from the U.S. Department of State, Division of Far Eastern Affairs, and the U.S. Department of Commerce, addressing the Japanese occupation of Korea after World War II, Korean War, and 1953 armistice. Digitized archive of diplomatic files documents the internal and foreign affairs of Korea during the period of 1930 to 1960, including the period of Japanese occupation after World War II. Materials include reports on political, military, industrial, and economic affairs. This archive documents Korea under Japanese occupation through the postwar period, and during the Korean war. Japan annexed Korea in 1910, and in the period 1931 to 1945 it ruled Korea by a strict military regime. Documents in this collection are from the U.S. Department of State, Division of Far Eastern Affairs, and the U.S. Department of Commerce, from the U.S. National Archives."
- La France pendant la guerre 1939-1945: Résistance et journaux de Vichy (Voices from Wartime France 1939-1945: Clandestine Resistance and Vichy Newspapers)
This resource provides perspectives from both the Vichy government and the resistance movement, this unique collection constitutes the sum of the French press that actually reached Britain during the Occupation of 1940-44. It is the record of what was known by the British about the hearts and minds of the French people at the most dramatic period of their shared history. "French voices under the Occupation (1939-45): Resistance et journals de Vichy" brings together the sum of the French newspapers which succeeded in reaching the United Kingdom during the Occupation between 1940 and 1944: a perfect account of this Across the Channel knew events in France during the most dramatic era of Franco-English relations. This unique collection offers the complete sum of the French documents of the National Library of the United Kingdom, coming from different sources (clandestine, secret or neutral) and thus offers as exhaustive a view as possible of life during the war.
- Lexikon des gesamten Buchwesens Online
The aim of the Lexikons des gesamten Buchwesens (“Dictionary of the Book”) is to render the complete knowledge about the book in an academically reliable and exact manner, in alphabetical order. The dictionary covers everything from the production and distribution to the reception of the book. It also takes into account certain areas that are of particular importance to those working with books professionally, such as bibliographers, librarians, booksellers and publishers, but also for book collectors and bibliophiles. Geographical limitations do not play a role, yet the emphasis is on European, especially the Germanspeaking countries. Each individual entry includes ends with a list of further reading and often includes illustrations, tables or maps
- Literary Print Culture: The Stationer's Company Archive
Explore the history of printing, publishing and bookselling from 1554 to the 21st century. The archive of the Stationers’ Company is widely regarded as one of the most important sources for studying the history of the book, publishing and copyright.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - Liverpool Shipping Records: Imports and Exports, 1820-1900 - Part 1
This collection contains bills of entry derived from official sources, namely the reports and manifests of ships that docked in the port of Liverpool between 1820 and 1860. These bills are divided into two categories. The first contains details of imports and the second records exports. This collection provides an overview of the emergence of Liverpool as a prominent maritime centre. It also provides an insight into shifting patterns of global trade during the 19th century. Part 1 includes bills of entry from 1826 to 1860.
- Liverpool Shipping Records: Imports and Exports, 1820-1900 - Part 2
This collection contains bills of entry derived from official sources, namely the reports and manifests of ships that docked in the port of Liverpool between 1861 and 1870. These bills are divided into two categories. The first contains details of imports and the second records exports. This collection provides an overview of the emergence of Liverpool as a prominent maritime centre. It also provides an insight into shifting patterns of global trade during the 19th century. Part 2 includes bills of entry from 1861 to 1870.
- Liverpool Shipping Records: Imports and Exports, 1820-1900 - Part 3
This collection contains bills of entry derived from official sources, namely the reports and manifests of ships that docked in the port of Liverpool between 1871 and 1890. These bills are divided into two categories. The first contains details of imports and the second records exports. This collection provides an overview of the emergence of Liverpool as a prominent maritime centre. It also provides an insight into shifting patterns of global trade during the 19th century. Part 3 includes bills of entry from 1871 to 1890.
- Liverpool Shipping Records: Imports and Exports, 1820-1900 - Part 4
This collection contains bills of entry derived from official sources, namely the reports and manifests of ships that docked in the port of Liverpool between 1891 and 1900. These bills are divided into two categories. The first contains details of imports and the second records exports. This collection provides an overview of the emergence of Liverpool as a prominent maritime centre. It also provides an insight into shifting patterns of global trade during the 19th century. Part 4 includes bills of entry from 1891 to 1990.
- Liverpool through time : from slavery to the industrial revolution, 1766-1900
This collection is composed of directories of Liverpool first established by John Gore in 1766. The directories contained lists of merchants, tradesmen, and principal inhabitants of Liverpool, initially being published sporadically but later taking on a biennial character. The directories demonstrate the changing face of the city of Liverpool over the 18th and 19th centuries. Thus, the collection offers a window into the blossoming of the Industrial Revolution, the rise and fall of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and the establishment of the first social services in the city.
- London Low Life
London Low Life is a full-text searchable resource, containing colour digital images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to 19th and early 20th century London. The resource covers a wide range of disciplines, including literature, cultural studies, urban studies, social history and the study of leisure and tourism.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - Luthers Werke
Luthers Werke im WWW reproduces the Weimar Edition in electronic form. The Weimar Edition, which is regarded as a monumental work in the field of theology and the German language, was first published in 1883 and includes 127 volumes. The Weimar Edition of Luthers Werke is published by ProQuest with the co-operation and support of the publishers Hermann Böhlaus Nachfolger Weimar GmbH & Co.
- L’Affaire Dreyfus: son influence dans la création de la France moderne (The Dreyfus Affair in the Making of Modern France)
In 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jewish officer, is accused of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment. Despite overwhelming evidence of the guilt of another officer, the Army continued to cover up the miscarriage of justice until Dreyfus' release in 1906. The "Dreyfus affair", which became the most prominent political scandal of his time, divided France and revealed the virulent anti-Semitism rife in Europe. With more than 1,000 volumes, the collection contains all the most famous Dreyfusard publications, such as the newspaper article "J'accuse" by Zola in 1898, as well as some rarely seen archival documents. Documents from a wide range of countries bearing witness to all aspects of the controversy reflect the breadth and depth of attention which the Dreyfus Affair attracted at the end of the 19th century.
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