May 2010 Entries
The United States Department of State has recently released volume 19, Part 1 in the Foreign Relations of the United States series.
Volume 19 is part of a subseries that documents the most important issues in foreign policy under the Nixon and Ford presidencies. Volume 19, Part 1, Korea:1969-1972, edited by Daniel J. Lawlor and Erin R. Mahan, covers US foreign policy concerning Korea. The majority of the documents cover security issues
You can keep up with events that interest you by reading your favourite newspaper online in Press Display.
Press Display contains newspapers and magazines from eighty-two countries.
Medieval Family Life includes full colour searchable facsimiles of five major letter collections and associated manuscripts from fifteenth century England: the Paston, Stonor, Cely, Plumpton and Amburgh papers.
Bishop Winston Halapua has been elected bishop of Polynesia -- one of the three archbishops of the Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia.
The Library is trialling the database Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports, 1941-1966, a searchable collection of daily reports from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS). The reports are the United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence and include firsthand reports of events recorded as they occurred.
The Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003 is a searchable facsimile edition of the London Illustrated News, providing a significant visual archive of 160 years of British and world history.
The library is currently trialling the newly launched Oxford Bibliographies Online, an online bibliographic tool from Oxford University Press, designed to help students and scholars in the humanities and social sciences find reliable information sources quickly.