Webinars
Watch live or catch up on demand. Join the AM team and guest presenters explore issues and discuss topics related to universities, libraries and archives.
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What is AM publishing in 2025? (Part I)
Members of AM's editorial team explored the upcoming collections publishing in 2025, in this first part of our two-part webinar series.
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What is AM publishing in 2025? (Part II)
Members of AM's Editorial team explored our upcoming collections publishing in 2025 in the second installment of our two-part webinar.
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Boosting student success: leveraging historical sources for non-history majors
Join AM's Emily Stallworthy to consider how engaging with primary sources can create a more enriching, and dynamic educational experience across all majors. Emily showcases learning resources from our AM Research Skills series, designed to develop the key information literacy and critical thinking skills needed for student success.
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Beyond history: Using primary sources in interdisciplinary teaching and research
Join AM as we explored the interdisciplinary applications of archival material beyond history classes.
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AV primary sources in your library: a valuable but underutilised tool
Audiovisual (AV) primary sources often remain underutilised despite their interdisciplinary potential. Explore recent research by AM and Library Journal and see examples of how AM Quartex's cutting-edge technologies can maximise the discovery and accessibility of your digitised AV content.
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Unlocking student success through Spanish language primary sources
We were joined by Faculty Engagement Associate, Joe Young-Perez, and Dr Matthew Butler from the University of Texas at Austin as they explored how AM’s first non-English language resource, Mexico in History: Colonialism to Revolution, c.1500-1929, can be used in undergraduate teaching.
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Teaching with government documents from The National Archives, UK
AM Archives Direct provides crucial insight into modern geopolitics from the perspective of the British state with material drawn exclusively from The National Archives, UK. Explore the teaching and research value of these documents with Dr. Matt Graham, University of Dundee alongside Nick Jackson and Alex Barr, both from AM's Editorial Production team.
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Uncovering the hidden voices of everyday women in primary sources
To celebrate our collection, Women's Voices and Life Writing, 1600-1968, we examine how vivid narratives and diverse materials can amplify and reveal the voices of women across the centuries.
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Archives from Canada Online: Highlights of digitised primary sources for teaching and learning
Join Dr. Laura Blomvall and Dr. Clare Kellar on a virtual tour exploring AM's newest digital collections, such as 1980s Culture and Society with material from the Library and Archives Canada.
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What is AM publishing in 2024? (Part I)
Join members of AM's Editorial team in the first of our two-part webinar, as they explore the exciting new range of collections publishing in 2024.
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What is AM publishing in 2024? (Part II)
Join members of AM's Editorial team in the second installment of our two-part webinar, as they explore the exciting new range of collections publishing in 2024.
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Torture, State Violence and Political Prisoners: Exploring the Global Human Rights Movement through the Amnesty International Archives
Find out how our Amnesty International Archives: A Global Movement for Human Rights collection can be used in teaching and research
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Hidden in the archives: uncovering new perspectives with HTR
AI-driven HTR, available in the digital collections platform AM Quartex, has the power to take scholars beyond face value, biases and accepted interpretations, to unearth hidden perspectives and greater understanding of a broader range of experiences. Join us to experience the transformational power of HTR.
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Uncovering archival materials in AM’s Africa and the New Imperialism: European Borders on the African Continent, 1870-1914
This webinar, with AM partners CHOICE, delves into how researchers can use archival materials to better understand the impact and response to European colonialism in Africa using the newly-published database Africa and the New Imperialism: European Borders on the African Continent, 1870-1914
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Embedding accessibility into digital collections
Digital access by today’s definition means more than simply making digital copies of physical materials available online. Join us to hear from two academic libraries that have placed accessibility front and centre of their digital open access programs, and how AM's UX team is using real world insights to improve accessibility within Quartex and our own digital primary source collections.
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From whalemen to pirates: researching everyday life at sea through primary sources
Find out how faculty utilised maritime collections and primary source databases to research everyday life at sea
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AM collections: discover what's publishing in 2023 (Part two)
Join members of AM's Editorial team in the second installment of our two-part webinar, as they explore the exciting new range of collections publishing in 2023.
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AM collections: discover what's publishing in 2023 (Part one)
Join members of AM's Editorial team in the first of our two-part webinar, as they explore the exciting new range of collections publishing in 2023.
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Presenting oral histories
How institutions are using our technology to present oral histories to broader audiences.
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Stories from Australian archives: digital storytelling tools for discovery and engagement
Learn to tell and amplify the stories in your digital archive with discovery and engagement tools in AM Quartex.
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Primary sources in Canadian universities: from business history to creative writing
Primary source pedagogy, postgraduate research and library asset management in Canada.
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Bringing primary sources into the classroom
How can students evaluate primary sources and apply them in their own research as historians.
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Settlement, Slavery and Empire: British colonial rule in the Caribbean
What can British colonial records tell us about the history, region, and people of the Caribbean?
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Digital collections: optimising access and discovery in an evolving technological landscape
Gain a deeper insight into the real-world use and application of HTR Transcription.