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British Documents on Foreign Affairs series

Queen Victoria’s empire was famed as an empire on which the sun never set.  Looking at a map of the British Empire from 1886 shows just how diverse and widespread British rule and interests were.  From about 1850 on the British Foreign Office printed important diplomatic documents to be read by the Monarch and to be shared with British diplomats.  These documents represent the treaties, government proclamations, memos and reports from embassy or foreign office personnel back to the Foreign Office (FO).  Selections from this “Confidential Print” series have been collected in book form in: The British Documents on...
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Awaiting Discovery

Europeana – European culture in digital formats

Europeana is an entryway for European culture in digital format. Launched in November 2008 Europeana now includes 110 cooperating institutions (museums; libraries, archives; cinema, sound, and image repositories; and research institutions) from more than 30 countries. Formats include images, texts, sound, and video. Do you want to know what a sovereign coin minted in Henry VIII’s time looked like? Curious about what a nightingale’s song really sounds like after reading Keats’ ode?  Want to see film clips of French film noir? Search in Europeana. Some of the current hightlights include wedding pictures from Eastern Europe; an online exhibition of...
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