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A VAST SELECTION OF DIGITAL PRIMARY SOURCES ARE NOW AVAILABLE THROUGH A GROUP PURCHASING PILOT TO FURTHER ENHANCE UK TEACHING AND RESEARCHUK Higher Education institutions are now able to benefit from a group purchasing pilot with Jisc which sees multiple Adam Matthew digital research and teaching collections made available to purchase at an exceptional discount level. Aimed at supporting Higher ...

RARE FILM FOOTAGE DIGITISED FROM THE BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE NATIONAL ARCHIVEView the world through a communist lens – rare film footage from the twentieth century forms a new unrivalled collection enabling comparative global research: Socialism on Film: The Cold War and International Propaganda.Unique in nature and scope, this Adam Matthew collection provides access to previously unseen footage captured by film ...

Discover the work of the Race Relations Department based at Fisk University, a highly influential think tank which emerged as a centre of scholarly investigation and public conversation on civil rights in the twentieth century.The extensive records of the Department, housed at the Amistad Research Center, are available now in Race Relations in America, a new online collection from ...

Explore a rich period of Middle Eastern history through complete runs of British Government Foreign Office FilesFormerly classified documents on the Middle East from the British Government’s Foreign Office have been published in Foreign Office Files for the Middle East, 1971-1981 – an online teaching and research collection from award-winning publisher, Adam Matthew.Foreign Office Files for the ...

Newly digitised archive reveals the colourful history of the East India Company and the challenges of a globalising worldFrom its trade origins in the East and rise to become the world’s most powerful company and de facto ruler of India, to its demise amongst allegations of greed and corruption, the latest online collection from Adam Matthew reveals the East ...

ADAM MATTHEW RESOURCE SELECTED ABOVE 5,000 TITLES TO RECEIVE CHOICE PRESTIGIOUS AWARDVictorian Popular Culture, an online teaching and research resource, has been chosen as a Choice ‘Best of the Best’ Outstanding Academic Title for 2016.Shortlisted from over 5,000 titles reviewed by Choice, Victorian Popular Culture has been identified as one of the top three most significant publications ...

Adam Matthew and the Big Ten Academic Alliance continue their highly valued partnership with a new agreement to provide access to award-winning primary source material for teaching and research.Incorporating many of the leading academic institutions in the United States, the agreement enables unparalleled access to a vast array of rare and unique material. The program grants institutions complete ...

Competition encourages postgraduate students and early career researchers to applyAdam Matthew is delighted to continue its partnership with the British Association for American Studies (BAAS), supporting a second annual essay competition aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers. BAAS members are invited to enter for their chance to win £500, one year’s access to an Adam Matthew ...

Award-winning publisher, Adam Matthew, is delighted to announce a major new digitisation project in collaboration with Duke University that will see a selection of the world famous J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT) Archive digitised. On publication in 2018, the digital resource will be a major boon for researchers working on the history of American consumer culture, the advertising industry, ...

Adam Matthew celebrate their largest collaboration with the British Library to date with new flagship project Adam Matthew is delighted to announce a major new project with the British Library that will see the digitisation of some of the core series of the India Office Records (IOR), dating from 1599 to c.1950. These vitally important records, including the charters and minute books of the East India Company and the minute books of the post-1858...

Now available online, Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement and Colonial Encounters, provides students and scholars instant access to content vital for comparative research and classroom use.Digitised material ranges across four centuries and offers a vast geographical spread capturing the lives, experiences and colonial encounters of people living at the edges of the Anglophone world. The huge array of unique primary ...

Adam Matthew continues its new series of theatre-related projects with exclusive Shakespeare content from the Folger Shakespeare LibraryThe world’s largest collection of prompt books from the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C., is now available online, providing theatre, literature and popular culture researchers unprecedented access to this unique collection in a digital format. Shakespeare in Performance offers the ...

Digital publisher Adam Matthew has today announced the publication of Colonial America Module II: Towards Revolution - the second instalment of a five-module resource featuring the complete CO 5 class at The National Archives, UK. Described as an “indispensable” resource for researchers of the early-modern Atlantic world and winner of Library Journal’s Best Reference Award 2015, Colonial America ...

Adam Matthew and Shakespeare’s Globe announce landmark digitisation project of world-renowned theatre archiveAdam Matthew and Shakespeare's Globe are delighted to announce their collaboration on a landmark digital project - Shakespeare’s Globe: Performances and Practices. The project will see the digitisation of the majority of Shakespeare’s Globe’s archives, preserved since its opening in 1997. The collection ...

Throughout July to mark the anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Adam Matthew is providing free temporary access to Mapping Gettysburg – an interactive map placing historic photographs, letters and diaries on a map of the battlefield, contained within award-winning digital primary source collection, American History, 1493-1945. Mapping Gettysburg, developed in collaboration with Axis Maps, allows users to ...

Award-winning publisher, Adam Matthew, today announced the publication of History of Mass Tourism: a multi-archive collection providing an in-depth insight into the pleasures of nineteenth and twentieth century leisure travel and the growth of tourism for the masses between c.1850-1980s.Unique primary sources have been digitised from a wealth of international archives allowing scholars and ...

Explore immigration and emigration to the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand during Immigrant Heritage Month, through this innovative interactive toolTo celebrate the third annual Immigrant Heritage Month Adam Matthew is pleased to announce temporary free access to the Migration Map – a special interactive feature within the recently released Migration to New Worlds digital primary source collection.In 2014, ...

Digitization of the ‘Larpent Collection’ an “Enormous boon for scholars and students”* allowing insights into censorship, celebrity and society Award-winning publisher of digital content for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Adam Matthew, has today announced the publication of Eighteenth Century Drama: Censorship, Society and the Stage. This extraordinary collection of primary source material provides students and scholars with...

New project will focus on personal experiences in the United States via audio and visual primary sources from The National WWII Museum in New Orleans Adam Matthew is proud to announce its most recent project collaboration - with The National WWII Museum in New Orleans. The single archive project will cover personal experiences during the Second World War and also touch upon those specific to New Orleans. The new resource will reveal how the war...

Adam Matthew is delighted to announce the recipients of the first Adam Matthew / Irish (IAAS) and British Association for American Studies (BAAS) essay competitions are, Carmel Lambert (IAAS) from the National University of Ireland – Galway, and Patrick Doyle (BAAS) from Royal Holloway University, London.Adam Matthew representatives attended the 2016 Irish and British Association for American Studies (IBAAS) conference at ...

Adam Matthew, a global provider of digital primary source content, has today announced the publication of the second and final module of Church Missionary Society Periodicals - ‘Medical Journals, Asian Missions and the Historical Record, 1816-1986’. The completion of this highly anticipated collection provides scholars with a unique perspective on global history and cultural encounters, and is one of the richest sources available on the role of...

Adam Matthew Digital, a publisher of primary source collections will be releasing a collection of documents online under the title Frontier Life, Borderlands, Settlement & Colonial Encounters later this year. The documents within aim to shed light on some of the Anglophone settler/colonial frontiers in North America, southern Africa and Australasia and will be used by scholars and students ...

Adam Matthew are delighted to announce that the winners of the first SASA Adam Matthew Digital Essay Competition are Hannah-Rose Murray, from the University of Nottingham, and Laura Harrison, from the University of Edinburgh.Representatives from Adam Matthew attended the Scottish Association for the Study of America (SASA) 2016 Conference, which brings together academics studying all matters of Americana, ...

Adam Matthew, an award-winning publisher of digital primary source content has today launched World’s Fairs: A Global History of Expositions.From the Eiffel Tower and the Space Needle to the invention of television, chewing gum and hot dogs, world’s fairs have shaped the modern world. This resource provides primary source material from hundreds of fairs in full ...