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The latest news, articles and press releases from AM.
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World-renowned collection of Shakespeare material published onlineAdam Matthew continues its new series of theatre-related projects with exclusive Shakespeare content from the Folger Shakespeare Library. The world’s largest collection of prompt books from the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C., is now available online, providing theatre, literature and popular culture researchers unprecedented access to this unique collection in a digital format.
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Award-winning Colonial America resource, ‘Module II Towards Revolution’ now available from Adam MatthewDigital publisher Adam Matthew has today announced the publication of Colonial America Module II: Towards Revolution - the second instalment of a five-module resource featuring the complete CO 5 class at The National Archives, UK.
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Shakespeare’s Globe Archive to be digitisedAdam Matthew and Shakespeare's Globe are delighted to announce their collaboration on a landmark digital project - Shakespeare’s Globe: Performances and Practices. The project will see the digitisation of the majority of Shakespeare’s Globe’s archives, preserved since its opening in 1997.
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Adam Matthew provides temporary free access to interactive Gettysburg mapThroughout July to mark the anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Adam Matthew is providing free temporary access to Mapping Gettysburg – an interactive map placing historic photographs, letters and diaries on a map of the battlefield, contained within award-winning digital primary source collection, American History, 1493-1945.
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Adam Matthew provides untapped multinational perspective on the evolution of tourismAward-winning publisher, Adam Matthew, today announced the publication of History of Mass Tourism: a multi-archive collection providing an in-depth insight into the pleasures of nineteenth and twentieth century leisure travel and the growth of tourism for the masses between c.1850-1980s.
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Adam Matthew provides temporary free access to interactive migration mapTo celebrate the third annual Immigrant Heritage Month Adam Matthew is pleased to announce temporary free access to the Migration Map – a special interactive feature within the recently released Migration to New Worlds digital primary source collection.
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Unique collection of Lord Chamberlain’s plays published onlineDigitization of the ‘Larpent Collection’ an “Enormous boon for scholars and students”* allowing insights into censorship, celebrity and society. Award-winning publisher of digital content for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Adam Matthew, has today announced the publication of Eighteenth Century Drama: Censorship, Society and the Stage.
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Adam Matthew sign agreement to publish its first digital World War II collectionAdam Matthew is proud to announce its most recent project collaboration - with The National WWII Museum in New Orleans. The single archive project will cover personal experiences during the Second World War and also touch upon those specific to New Orleans.
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Winners of the first Iaas & Baas Adam Matthew Digital essay prize announced in BelfastAdam Matthew is delighted to announce the recipients of the first Adam Matthew / Irish (IAAS) and British Association for American Studies (BAAS) essay competitions are, Carmel Lambert (IAAS) from the National University of Ireland – Galway, and Patrick Doyle (BAAS) from Royal Holloway University, London.
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Essential perspective on global history now availableAdam 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’.
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SASA 2016 competition winners announcedAdam 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.
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World’s Fairs: a global history of expositionsAdam 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.
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‘Colonial America’ receives ‘Best Reference’ award from Library JournalColonial America: Complete CO 5 files from The National Archives, UK, 1606-1822 has been awarded Library Journal’s ‘Best Reference’ title after being recently described as a “superb addition to any research collection” in The Charleston Advisor (Vol.17, No.3, Jan 2016).
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Jisc and Adam Matthew collaborate to provide access to ‘Migration To New Worlds’ to all UK HE/FE institutionsMigration 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.
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Adam Matthew publishes UK government Foreign Office files exposing a unique history of the Middle East in the 1970sContaining 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.
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Essay competition announced for members of the Scottish Association for The Study of AmericaAdam 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.
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Adam Matthew signs ground-breaking agreement to include two digital collections in new Egyptian knowledge bankAdam 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.
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Platinum award win for Adam MatthewLibraryWorks, 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'.
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New competition for members of the Irish Association for American StudiesAdam 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.
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Adam Matthew and the British Association for American Studies launch new essay competitionAdam 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.
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Thirty-day free access to ‘The Weeksville Exhibition’Explore the buildings, objects and lives of the residents of the Historic Hunterfly Road Houses, Brooklyn, New York, through this innovative interactive tool. Throughout 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.
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African American Communities: one hundred years of struggle and creativityAward-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.
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Adam Matthew to publish five hundred years of unique materials on the history of printing, publishing and booksellingAdam 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.
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Adam Matthew launches vitally important research collection on early American historyAward-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 of manuscript material for the first time.