Posted on June 11, 2013
An exciting opportunity to join a successful and rapidly growing digital publisher of academic resources in the arts and humanities.
As part of a small and friendly team, you will work across a range of subject areas including literature, history and cultural studies. You will be responsible for the creation of digital resources, ensuring that projects are consistently delivered to a high standard and specification.
The job will involve...
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Posted on June 11, 2013
An exciting opportunity to join a successful and rapidly growing digital publisher of academic resources in the arts and humanities.
As part of a small and friendly team, you will work across a range of subject areas including literature, history and cultural studies. You will support the editorial team on all aspects of producing a digital resource from indexing and quality control to liaising with technical partners.
The job will involve...
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Posted on April 18, 2013
Part II of this vibrant and engaging resource aims to complement the comprehensive thematic areas introduced in Part I with material from brand new source libraries such as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum; the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Archives at the University of Warwick; the unique archive of British documentary filmmaker, Peter Whitehead; as well as even more material from Bowling Green State University, ITN Source, Mirrorpix and...
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Posted on March 22, 2013
Building on the success of 'Foreign Office Files for China, 1948-1980' we announce the launch of new supporting content covering a key period in 20th Century Chinese history.
From the 'May 4th Movement' to Japanese clashes with Kuomintang forces, 1927-1928, 'Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1929: Kuomintang, CCP and the Third International' makes available all British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, sourced...
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Posted on March 11, 2013
“The outstanding event of this month has been, of course, the publication of the Beveridge Report.”
A little over seventy years ago a report was published in Britain which was to irrevocably change the common consensus on the basic responsibilities of government and thereby also transform British society. Mass unemployment, poverty, and disappointment at wasted wartime sacrifices had characterised the ‘Hungry Thirties’; a return to that status quo...
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Posted on February 08, 2013
Following the revolution of 1912 which ended the two-thousand-year-old monarchy, China entered into a period of political instability lasting the best part of four decades. In theory the state was united under the successor government to the Qing dynasty, the Republic of China. In practice no one government succeeded in establishing itself over the whole country until the final military victory of the Communist Party in 1949. For much of the 1910s...
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Posted on November 29, 2012
This fourth section of Victorian Popular Culture explores the pivotal era in entertainment history when previously static images came to life and moved for the first time.
Through the wealth of printed and visual material, as well as artefacts, browsers are able to imagine the wide-eyed wonder of those early audiences, experiencing the magic of Victorian inventions and optical entertainments.
This section features printed ephemera, programmes,...
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Posted on October 09, 2012
During our work this year with SAGE Publications (www.sagepub.com) it has become clear that our two businesses share many of the same core values and our approaches to quality publishing.
You may aleady be aware from the recent press release that as a result of these fundamental alignments, and the ambitious plans for both companies, Adam Matthew is now a part of the SAGE Group.
SAGE has acquired Adam Matthew Digital and Adam Matthew...
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Posted on June 14, 2012
Adam Matthew Digital is a British publisher of scholarly collections of primary-source documents. We would like to trace the copyright-holders of a selection of items relating to American Indian history, within the Edward E. Ayer Collection at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
Detailed lists of individual items within these collections are available via the links below.
Ayer Modern MS Greenwood See detailed listing of material
The papers of Thomas...
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Posted on June 14, 2012
Adam Matthew would like to trace the copyright-holders of the following American Indian newspapers published in the United States between the 1960s and the early 1980s, (place of publication and dates are in parentheses):
Rosebud Sioux Herald (South Dakota, 1963-1971)
Akwesasne Notes (New York, 1960s – 1970s)
Standard Freeholder, Akwesasne News (1969)
The Indian (South Dakota, 1969-1970)
Crazy Horse News (South Dakota,...
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