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The Vogue Archive provides a searchable database of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month. Preserving the work of the world's greatest fashion designers, stylists and photographers, it is a unique record of American and international fashion, culture and society from the beginning of the modern era to the present day. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out is reproduced in color and images can be accessed in a variety of ways including by photographer, garment type or brand name.
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19th Century British Library Newspapers Part II
19th Century British Library Newspapers has been expanded by the addition newspapers the English counties, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland.
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Book Citation Index-Science and Book Citation Index-Social Sciences & Humanities are now included in Web of Science. This means that 30,000 academic books are now included in Web of Science, allowing you to search across journals, books and conference proceedings on any topic. The references in these books are fully indexed, adding 13.5 million new cited references to Web of Science. 10,000 new books will be added every year. The Book Citation Index subscription results from negotiations managed through the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) consortium.
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The Jerusalem Post is an Israeli daily English-language broadsheet newspaper, founded on 1 December 1932 by Gershon Agron as The Palestine Post in the British Mandate of Palestine. During the Mandate period, the publication supported the struggle for a Jewish homeland in Palestine and openly opposed British policy restricting Jewish immigration. In 1950, two years after the State of Israel was declared, the paper was renamed The Jerusalem Post. While it was once regarded as left-wing, the paper underwent a noticeable shift to the right in the late 1980s.
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The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003) - ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Archives of The Guardian and The Observer provide access to over two hundred years of The Guardian (originally Manchester Guardian, est. 1821) and The Observer (est. 1791). The Guardian gained a reputation for progressive opinions and coverage of controversial issues. Contributors to The Observer, a Sunday paper included prominent literary and political figures. -
The Wall Street Journal (1889-1993) - ProQuest Historical Newspapers
The Wall Street Journal (1889-1993) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. -
Mass Observation Online provides access to archival materials of a project started in 1937 to collect detailed information about the everyday lives of English people. The collection includes detailed diaries and responses to surveys on topics ranging from household budgets to politics and world events. A subset, The Worktown Collection, provides access to the documentation of an intensive study of the working-class towns of Bolton and Blackpool from 1937 to 1940. -
The Listener Historical Archive, 1929-1991
The Listener was a weekly publication, established by the BBC in 1929 as the medium for reproducing radio - and later, television - programs in print. It is our only record and means of accessing the content of many early broadcasts. With major contributors including E. M. Forster, George Orwell and Bertrand Russell, it also provided an important platform for new writers and poets; W. H. Auden, Sylvia Plath and Philip Larkin being notable examples.Full text of the digital collection is searchable, and issues can be browsed by date. Advanced searching includes limits for advertising, feature articles, poems, and obituaries. -
Everyday Life & Women in America
Everyday Life & Women in America provides access to primary source materials that detail the social and cultural forces that shaped the everyday lives of Americans from 1800 to 1920. Monographs, rare periodicals and pamphlets, manuals, and essays offer insight to families, home life and domestic management. The collection explores topics as diverse as religion, race, education, employment, politics, marriage, sexuality, health, childhood, fashion, gossip, travel, entertainment and popular pastimes. -
ARTstor, an image library for the arts and sciences, is a searchable database of thousands of digital images and associated catalog data, with new image collections added several times a year. ARTstor covers many time periods and cultures, and documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, anthropology, ethnographic and women's studies, as well as many other forms of visual culture. Users can search, view, download and organize images. -
American Film Scripts Online makes available, for the first time, accurate and authorized versions of more than 1,000 copyrighted screenplays. Most of the scripts have never been published before, and nowhere else are they available online. Alexander Street Press has developed the collection through arrangements with Warner Bros., Sony, RKO, MGM, and other major film studios; rights holders such as Faber & Faber, Newmarket Press, Penguin Putnam, and Vintage Anchor; and the writers themselves, including Paul Schrader, Lawrence Kasdan, Gus Van Sant, Neil LaBute, Oliver Stone, and many others.
Script formatting is in the conventional screenplay format wherever it exists in the original—the preferred format for scholars who teach screenwriting and for many historians. For the occasional writer who did not conform to the accepted conventions (Gus Van Sant, for example), the original format is presented. Users will see longer sections of each script for viewing and printing, links from search results directly to a specific scene, and other enhancements. -
Eighteenth Century Journal Portal
Eighteenth Century Journal Portal is a substantial addition to online primary sources for eighteenth-century cultural history. It provides access to the content of unique and ephemeral publications as well as longer-lived periodicals and newpapers representing the vitality and range of publishing in eighteenth-century (1685-1815) Britain & Ireland as well as some Canadian, Caribbean, & Indian titles. -
Times of India Historical Archive (1838-2001)
The Times of India was founded in 1838 to serve British residents of western India. Today this historical newspaper serves researchers interested in studying colonialism and post-colonialism, British and world history, class and gender issues, international relations, comparative religion, international economics, terrorism, and more. -
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