• Doegen Records Web Project

    Updated: 2012-06-29 09:00:41
    Doegen Records Web Project. “This digital archive of Irish dialect recordings made during 1928-31 comprises an important collection of early Irish language recordings of folktales, songs and other material. It includes recordings from many regions of Ireland where traditional Irish dialects have disappeared since the time the recordings were made. [They are] accompanied by transcriptions [...]

  • Book Citation Index Trial in Web of Science

    Updated: 2012-06-27 16:02:31
    Don’t Forget that the University of Ulster Library has trial access to the Book Citation Index within Web of Science until 7th August 2012. With scholarly communications available in print and electronic formats, it’s more important than ever that you be able to find citations across all media. Book Citation Index completes your access to citations [...]

  • Saint Patrick’s Confessio Hypertext Stack

    Updated: 2012-06-27 09:00:14
    In 2011 the Royal Irish Academy published Saint Patrick’s writings in a freely accessible form online at www.confessio.ie both in the original Latin and in a variety of modern languages, including Irish.  There is an introductory video.  “The project provides facsimiles and transcriptions of the extant manuscript testimonies and digital versions of relevant editions – [...]

  • RefWorks Write-N-Cite for Word Now Available

    Updated: 2012-06-25 12:52:36
    A new version of Write-N-Cite for MS Word is now available from the Tools menu in RefWorks. The long-awaited update means that Write-N-Cite can be downloaded to your PC to provide the following: MS XP, Vista and Windows 7 compatibility Support Word 2007 and 2010 Instant citation formatting Seamless online/offline access Fully integrated into the [...]

  • Irish –Australia transportation records

    Updated: 2012-06-25 09:00:56
    These records held in the National Archives of Ireland list the names crimes and sentences of people sent to the penal colonies. In many cases burglary and robbery brought sentences of seven years, though cow or sheep stealing could bring sentences of ten years.  Sometimes transportation sentences were commuted to shorter periods of imprisonment. Nineteen year old [...]

  • KGB in the Baltic States

    Updated: 2012-06-22 09:00:00
    This site presents the digitised documents of different KGB departments, illustrating the differences in their work in Estonia Latvia and Lithuania. All the documents, scanned from the originals, have descriptions. Descriptions are in English and Russian. They can be searched by name, place and date, KGB department and title of document.  There are NKGB files [...]

  • Kays Catalogues

    Updated: 2012-06-19 09:00:52
    JISC and the University of Worcester have collaborated in producing a fascinating website of over 1500 images celebrating Kays Catalogues from the 1920s through to the 1990s.  It will interest social historians and researchers interested in advertising, fashion, body image, health and social behaviour. For example along with images of 1930s fashion, there is information [...]

  • ITN news

    Updated: 2012-06-14 09:00:04
    The JISC MediaHub database gives researchers access to 6,300 ITN news clips focusing on UK news coverage: the Miner’s Strike, the Thatcher era, John Major, and Tony Blair, right up to the present day. The ITN collection includes (from 1989) the Sky News archive.  There is access to longer ITV specials, such as the 32 [...]

  • Getting Old and Dying in London, IHR, 19 June

    Updated: 2012-06-11 20:26:10
    Getting Old and Dying in London: A Material Culture Approach Will Farrell (Birkbeck, University of London) Tuesday 19 June, 5.15. Room G21A, Senate House, South block, Ground floor Skilled workers, such as the silk weavers of Spitalfields, had the early and middle years of their lives mapped out for them (at least in theory): apprenticeship, [...]

  • The Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674-1913

    Updated: 2012-06-09 09:00:16
    This is “a fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London’s central criminal court”. It is one of a number of resources in the Connected Histories website and is obviously an important resource for the legal researcher. It is also [...]

  • Our Next Event: Diane Purkiss, ‘Are Shakespeare’s Witches Really Domestic?’ (& End of Year Party!)

    Updated: 2012-06-07 15:50:50
    Friday 22 June 6.30 pm: Professor Diane Purkiss (University of Oxford), ‘Are Shakespeare’s Witches Really Domestic?’ Birkbeck, Malet Street Building, Room B36, followed by our end of year party in Room BO4 Professor Purkiss’s research interests  embrace the history of food in England; the dissolution of the English monasteries; witches, wizards, fairies and ghosts; the English [...]

  • CFP: Birkbeck Early Modern Society 6th Student Conference

    Updated: 2012-06-07 15:40:38
    The Birkbeck Early Modern Society’s 6th Student Conference ‘Science, Magic and Religion’  Keynote speaker: Emeritus Professor Michael Hunter Saturday 22 September 2012, 10.00-16.30 Call for Papers The Birkbeck Early Modern Society is pleased to announce its 6th annual student conference on the theme of ‘Science, Magic and Religion in the Early Modern Period’. This event [...]

  • Oxford Music Online: research resources

    Updated: 2012-06-06 09:00:01
    Oxford Music Online is an excellent starting point for the music researcher.  for example, in the manuscripts section under Research Resources it gives, “a review of the character and repertory of the main classes of manuscript in use before 1600, arranged by subject matter and also chronologically. The text is interspersed with descriptions of the [...]

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