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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 ...

(Marlborough, UK – 1st March 2016) Colonial America: Complete CO 5 files from The National Archives, UK, 1606-1822 has been awarded Library Journal’s ‘Best Reference’ title after recently described as a “superb addition to any research collection” in The Charleston Advisor (Vol.17, No.3, Jan 2016). Each year, Library Journal evaluates over 8,000 books, e-books, audio books, videos/DVDs, databases, systems and websites, awarding the prestigious...

Adam Matthew invites academics, scholars, librarians and professionals working within the fields of social sciences and/or humanities, who would be interested in contributing to the company blog, to get in touch.The Adam Matthew blog has previously focused on the internal musings of colleagues on various Adam Matthew collections and travel, specifically taking an 'Object of the Week' approach ...

Migration to New Worlds (www.migration.amdigital.co.uk), a collection of materials on the ‘Century of Immigration’, is to be made freely available to all UK academics and students in higher (HE) and further (FE) education institutions from January 2016 thanks to a collaboration between Jisc and Adam Matthew.Market research conducted by both Adam Matthew, a leading provider ...

Containing complete runs of Foreign Office files from the UK government's official archives, this timely online collection provides an expansive and unique view of key events across the region, and their impact on global politics and everyday life.Foreign Office Files for the Middle East details internal and external affairs and conflicts, from invasions and civil wars to revolutions ...

Adam Matthew are pleased to announce a new essay competition in partnership with the leading association on American Studies in Scotland, the Scottish Association for the Study of America (SASA). The essay competition is aimed at postgraduate students, early career researchers and independent researchers in the field of American Studies. The winner, who will be announced at the 2016 SASA ...

Adam Matthew, award-winning UK publisher of digital primary source collections, has signed a multi-year agreement with the Egyptian government to provide access to two digital primary source collections via the Egyptian Knowledge Bank (EKB) project. This ground-breaking agreement, announced in December 2014, is the first of its kind in the Republic of Egypt. The EKB provides access to resources from several international publishers, making it...

LibraryWorks, Inc have announced the winners of their second annual Modern Library Awards (MLAs), which saw Adam Matthew receive a Platinum award for ‘Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900' and Honorable Mention distinction for 'Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975'.The MLAs were created to recognize the top products in the library industry in a truly unbiased format. ...

Adam Matthew are pleased to announce a new essay competition in partnership with the leading association on American Studies in Ireland, the Irish Association of American Studies (IAAS). The essay competition is aimed at postgraduate students, early career researchers and independent researchers in the field of American Studies. Essays should be between 3000 and 5000 words in length and relate ...

---DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL JANUARY 31ST--- Adam Matthew are pleased to announce a new essay competition in partnership with the leading association on American Studies in the UK, the British Association of American Studies (BAAS). The essay competition is aimed at postgraduate students, early career researchers and independent researchers in the field of North American history. The prize consists of £500 and one year’s access to an...

Explore the buildings, objects and lives of the residents of the Historic Hunterfly Road Houses, Brooklyn, New York, through this innovative interactive toolThroughout November 2015, Adam Matthew will provide free access to The Weeksville Exhibition – one part of the recently released African American Communities digital primary source collection.The Weeksville Exhibition allows users to explore the layout and objects from ...

Personal accounts revealing a century of racial tension published online for the first time.Marlborough, October 7th 2015 - Award-winning publisher Adam Matthew announces the publication of African American Communities: the latest digital primary source collection in their growing portfolio of resources for the humanities and social sciences.Featuring multiple perspectives on the daily challenges faced by African Americans between ...

Adam Matthew is pleased to announce an agreement with the Stationers’ Company to digitize and publish their entire records – hailed by academics as one of the most important sources on the history of printing, publishing, and bookselling. Containing extremely rare documents relating to the book trade dating from 1554 to the 20th century, the Stationers’ Company archive is an invaluable source of research material for historians and literary...

Award-winning digital publisher Adam Matthew has today announced the launch of ‘Colonial America’ – the complete CO5 files from The National Archives, UK, 1606-1822.A ‘game-changing’ development for historians and researchers of early America, the Atlantic world, the Caribbean and the nascent British Empire, Colonial America enables online access to the vast archive of c70,000 documents of ...

Adam Matthew invites academics, scholars, librarians and professionals working within the fields of social sciences and/or humanities, who would be interested in contributing to the company blog, to get in touch.The Adam Matthew blog has, so far, focused on the internal musings of colleagues on various Adam Matthew collections and travel, specifically taking an 'Object of the Week' ...

In collaboration with the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Adam Matthew has today published Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900.This new addition to Adam Matthew’s growing portfolio of digital primary source collections for social history exposes the wealth of printed and visual materials that were produced to educate consumers on health issues and ...

Adam Matthew signs new agreement with the Amistad Research Center, New Orleans Adam Matthew has today announced an agreement to digitally publish a wealth of documents from the ‘Race Relations Department of the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries, 1943-1970’ held by the Amistad Research Center.Established within the Race Relations Department in 1966 to house the historical records ...

31st July, Adam Matthew will enable free access to ‘American History in 100 Documents’: one-hundred hand-picked documents and associated analysis of their importance from American History, 1493-1945, sourced exclusively from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in New York. These primary source documents illustrate some of the key themes of American History during the period covered - African-American History, Women’s History,...

American History, 1493-1945 is now complete - providing teachers and researchers with access to thousands of exceptionally high-quality digital primary source documents from the renowned Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York - one of the most important archives on American history in existence. Spanning over four hundred years, and particularly strong on the Revolutionary and Civil War periods, American History includes c.60,000...

Medical Services and Warfare, c.1850-1927A selection of personal papers from the Liddle Collection. The Liddle Collection documents and preserves first-hand accounts of individuals who experienced the two World Wars. It was started privately in the early 1970s by the military historian Dr Peter Liddle and was established as part of Leeds University Special Collections in 1988. The ...

Adam Matthew Digital Re-launches Remarkable Collection of 19th and early 20th Century Materials.(Marlborough, UK 27th May 2015) Bringing the darkened halls, spectacular shows, bawdy burlesque and spiritualist séances of the Victorian era to life is now even easier for students, researchers and teachers with the re-launch of the Victorian Popular Culture portal.Victorian Popular Culture offers ...