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The latest news, articles and press releases from AM.
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Adam Matthew Digital to publish selected Royal Shakespeare Company archives
Award-winning publisher, Adam Matthew Digital, is delighted to announce a major new collaboration with the internationally renowned Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) which will see key items in the RSC’s archive digitised and made accessible to the global academic community.
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Adam Matthew Digital launches new collection - ‘Food and Drink in History’
New resource now available.
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A soundtrack to life: What can the study of music tell us about global cultural identities?
Adam Matthew Digital today announces the publication of its latest digital collection: Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings.
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Adam Matthew Announces the First Digital Collections from Loyola Marymount University
Quartex enables Loyola Marymount University to further library's mission of availability and accessibility of diverse digital collections.
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University of Exeter becomes first European university to purchase complete primary source portfolio from Adam Matthew Digital
Adam Matthew Digital is delighted to announce today that University of Exeter has become the first European university to purchase its entire digital primary source portfolio of over 100 modules.
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Adam Matthew Launches New Digital Collection - ‘America in World War Two: Oral Histories and Personal Accounts'
Experience the events of WWII through the personal histories of those that lived through it.
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Now Published Online: Shakespeare’s Globe Archive – Theatres, Players & Performance
Wednesday 6th March 2019 - Archives from the world-renowned Shakespeare’s Globe are now available online, as part of a collaboration with award-winning primary source publisher, Adam Matthew Digital.
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Handwritten Text Recognition Technology added to Literary Print Culture
Literary Print Culture, released in September 2017, made the archive of the Stationers’ Company, London digitally available to literary scholars and students.
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American Indian Newspapers – uncovering two centuries of important North American Indigenous journalism
American Indian Newspapers, the vital new collection from Adam Matthew, provides digital access to 200 years of North American Indigenous journalism from a range of communities, historic pressings, and contemporary periodicals.
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Gender: Identity and Social Change - Now Published. Three Centuries of Digital Primary Sources Documenting Developments in Gender Roles and Relations
Students and scholars can now explore three centuries of primary source material documenting extensive developments in gender roles and relations. The expansive collection offers sources for the study of women's suffrage, the feminist movement, the men’s movement, employment, education, the body, the family, and government and politics.
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Age Of Exploration Now Published: Digital Primary Sources Tracing Voyage And Discovery Across Five Centuries
Age of Exploration, a new digital primary source collection is now available from Adam Matthew Digital. This collection tells the story of European maritime exploration from the earliest voyages of Vasco da Gama and Christopher Columbus, through the age of discovery, to the race for the Poles.
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J. Walter Thompson Company Archives Digitised: Discover the History of the World’s Biggest Brands
Adam Matthew Digital publishes prestigious American cultural history collection: J. Walter Thompson: Advertising America, providing access to the archive of one of the world’s oldest, largest and most innovative advertising agencies.
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World War Two Service Newspapers Published
The story of war as told by rare and well-known publications circulated to the forces in major theatres across the globe. Adam Matthew Digital announces the publication of a landmark digital newspaper collection: Service Newspapers of World War Two, containing an extensive range of both rare and well-known wartime publications for soldiers serving in major theatres around the world.
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Foreign Office Files For Japan: Formerly Restricted Government Documents Published
A unique vantage point for research into a globally unstable political climate. Previously-restricted UK government documents, offering insight into the Allied occupation of post-war Japan, have been published within Adam Matthew Digital’s resource Foreign Office Files for Japan. Section II of this resource, published this month, covers The Occupation of Japan, 1946-1952. From 1946-1952 Japan was occupied by Allied Powers...
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Records of the East India Company Now Fully Searchable Using Artificial Intelligence
Research the history of the first great multinational corporation with new digitised records sourced exclusively from the British Library. Students and scholars are now able to navigate their way through newly digitised manuscripts using Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR), with the latest release of new content in Adam Matthew Digital’s landmark primary source collection East India Company.
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Handwritten Text Recognition Transforms Access to The Papers of Florence Nightingale
(Marlborough, UK – November 2017) Medical Services and Warfare, 1850-1927, the latest primary source collection from Adam Matthew Digital, has transformed access to the personal and professional writings of Florence Nightingale with exclusive Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR). The HTR technology allows these handwritten papers to be fully searchable for the first time. Dr Patrick Spero, Director, American Philosophical Society Library, explains the...
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Adam Matthew Digital Takes Part in Second Jisc Group Purchasing Scheme Supporting Greater Access to Digital Primary Sources
(Marlborough, UK – November 2017) UK Higher Education institutions are now able to benefit from a second group purchasing initiative with Jisc which sees multiple Adam Matthew Digital research and teaching collections made available to purchase at an exceptional discount level. After great success of an...
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A Cultural Revolution: Over Four Hundred Years on The History of Printing, Publishing and Bookselling Digitised
ADAM MATTHEW DIGITAL PUBLISHES THE STATIONERS’ COMPANY ARCHIVE, 1554-2007(Marlborough, UK – Thursday 28th September 2017) Literary Print Culture, the latest primary source collection from Adam Matthew Digital, makes available The Stationers’ Company Archive with material from 1554 to the 21st Century.Widely regarded as one of the most important sources for the history of the book, publishing and copyright, ...
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Artificial Intelligence Transforms Discoverability of 17th and 18th Century Manuscripts Using Handwritten Text Recognition
ADAM MATTHEW DIGITAL ANNOUNCES FULL-TEXT SEARCH TECHNOLOGY TO BE RELEASED WITHIN ITS DIGITAL MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS FOR TEACHING AND RESEARCH(Marlborough, UK – Thursday 14th September 2017) Adam Matthew Digital is the first primary source publisher to utilise artificial intelligence to offer transformative search capabilities with Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) for its manuscript collections.The first new collection available with this ...
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Bringing The Important History of Canada’s Past to Institutions Nationwide
(Marlborough, UK – 6th September 2017) Institutions across Canada can now benefit from full access to Frontier Life: Borderlands Settlement and Colonial Encounters, a digital collection of primary sources offering a glimpse into Canada’s unique historic past. Consortia Canada, Adam Matthew and 18 leading academic institutions have collaborated to open this essential content to libraries and educational institutions nationwide, including all...
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Historic 17th & 18th Century Manuscript Documents Made Fully Searchable Using Artificial Intelligence
EXCLUSIVE PARTNERSHIP WITHIN PRIMARY SOURCE PUBLISHING SEES ADAM MATTHEW DIGITAL AND PLANET-AI ENABLE FULL-TEXT SEARCH ACROSS DIGITISED MANUSCRIPTS (Marlborough, UK – Wednesday 6th September 2017) Adam Matthew Digital is the first primary source publisher to work exclusively with Planet-AI, a science and R&D driven software company, to utilise Artificial Intelligence to offer transformative search capabilities with ...
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Two Centuries of Global Migration: Motives and Memories
MILLIONS OF PERSONAL STORIES BROUGHT TO LIFE THROUGH DIGITISED MATERIALFROM TWENTY-SIX ARCHIVES ACROSS THE GLOBE(Marlborough, UK – Wednesday 30th August 2017) Migration to New Worlds charts the emigration experience of millions across 200 years of turbulent history, bringing together digitised material from twenty-six archives around the globe. Publication of Module II: The Modern Era marks the completion of ...
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Japan’s Rise to Modernity: British Government Documents Published
EXTENSIVE COVERAGE OF JAPAN’S ASCENT TO THE RANK OF A GLOBAL SUPERPOWER(Marlborough, UK – Wednesday 16th August 2017) Providing significant insight into the events between First World War victory and Second World War defeat, Foreign Office Files for Japan, 1919-1952 offers access to formally restricted government documents presenting a unique vantage point into a globally unstable political climate....
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Selling The American Dream
ONE OF THE LARGEST COLLECTIONS OF TRADE CATALOGUES IN AMERICA DIGITISED FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCHExplore the shaping of the United States throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with Trade Catalogues and the American Home. A new digitised collection of highly visual trade catalogues, cards and marketing ephemera illustrating the rise of the American dream and evolution of commercial tastes and consumer ...