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This collection sheds light upon the influential women’s clubs movement throughout the early twentieth century interwar period, as well as upon the wider social, political, and cultural contexts
Explore Britain’s efforts to eliminate Nazism and foster democracy among the German people in the wake of the Second World War through Foreign Office documents.
This collection is drawn from Ministry of Defence files and records the work of censorship teams to implement and co-ordinate censorship activity.
This collection sheds light on the history of childhood and family life during 20th century, providing alternative perspectives on advertising/marketing, popular culture, education, media, and print culture.
This collection provides primary sources which trace the evolution of educational policy, practice, and theory.
Objective news and analysis that covers the legal and commercial challenges facing the retail industry. The Resource Centre includes up-to date court filings and documentation.
Consumer magazines devoted to health and fitness topics.
For more than 40 years, Marketing Week has been at the centre of marketing, documenting, championing and questioning the industry’s key people, events and brands. A trusted and authoritative voice, Marketing Week is dedicated to improving the fortunes of marketers and the status of marketing by providing independent analysis and fresh thinking on the challenges and opportunities in modern marketing.
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Mexico in History explores the evolution of Mexico from c.1500 to 1929, from Spanish colonisation and the formation of New Spain through the Mexican War of Independence to the Mexican Revolution. The predominantly Spanish-language material is a combination of print, manuscript and photographic collections sourced from The Bancroft Library at the University of California Berkeley.
Archival materials charting the course and consequences of pandemics over 5 centuries, centred on on four diseases that have left a significant mark upon British history: plague, cholera, smallpox, and influenza. Collection is curated along thematic lines: economics and disease, control measures, international relations, medicine and vaccination, and public responses.
A unique collection of full-text articles and audio interviews from the music and mainstream press from the 1950s to the present day. Content from Rolling Stone, NME, Melody Maker, Kerrang, The Face, Smash Hits and more. Mainly UK and US content.
This collection sheds light on the 20th/21st–century history of a variety of movements and ideologies on the political left, including Marxist, socialist, communist, social democratic, and Fabianist publications.
This collections sheds light on the history of trade, trade policies, financial crises, emerging markets and technological innovations that unite the world in an ever-changing system of trade.