Trial – Baghdad Observer Digital Archive (1967-1996) (until 6 April 2024)

We have trial access to the Baghdad Observer Digital Archive (1967-1996) via East View until 6 April 2024.

The Baghdad Observer was the official English-language newspaper of the Iraqi government from its establishment after the 1963 coup and through the Ba’athist period following 1968, until it ended publication in 2003 due to the Iraq War. It covered significant events in Middle Eastern history, including the Iranian Revolution (1978-1979), the presidency of Saddam Hussein (1979-2003), the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), and the Gulf War (1990-1991).

Please send any feedback to Lydia Wright (lydia.wright@bodleian.ox.ac.uk).

Trial – Egypt and the Rise of Nationalism (trial until 6 April 2024)

We now have access to Egypt and the Rise of Nationalism via East View, as a trial until 6 April 2024 (extended from 7 March).

The British military occupation in Egypt was a legal and political anomaly. Never formally described as part of the “British Empire” by successive British governments, that relationship may have been inferred, applied by the popular press, or understood to be a colonial relationship by the public. But Britain was an administering power and the term “protectorate” was a debated definition of the relationship as early as 1884.

The eventual end of British occupation marked the emergence of modern Egypt. With more than 4,000 primary source documents, Egypt and the Rise of Nationalism richly presents the development of nationalist sensibilities, movements, and publications from the 1870s until the third decade of the twentieth century and culminating with the formal dissolution of the British protectorate in 1924.

Trial-Aris & Phillips Classical Texts Online – Until 24th February 2024

We now have access to Aris & Phillips Classical Texts Online – Trial until 24th February 2024

Aris & Phillips Classical Texts Online makes available over 150 invaluable editions of Greek and Latin texts. The Classical Texts series was founded in 1979 to publish modern editions of Classical Greek and Latin texts, with substantial introductions, facing-page text and English translation, with extensive accompanying commentaries. Volumes are designed to be accessible to those without Greek or Latin and support those learning the original language.

Please send feedback to Charlotte.Goodall@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Trials – Black Nationalism and the Revolutionary Action Movement; Papers of Amiri Baraka (until 17 February 2024)

We have trial access to two collections on Gale’s Archives Unbound platform until 17 February 2024.

Black Nationalism and the Revolutionary Action Movement: The Papers of Muhammad Ahmad (Max Stanford): This collection of RAM records reproduces the writings and statements of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) and its leaders. It also covers organizations that evolved from or were influenced by RAM and persons that had close ties to RAM. The most prominent organization that evolved from RAM was the African People’s Party. Organizations influenced by RAM include the Black Panther Party, League of Revolutionary Black Workers, Youth Organization for Black Unity, African Liberation Support Committee, and the Republic of New Africa. Individuals associated with RAM and documented in this collection include Robert F. Williams, Malcolm X, Amiri Baraka, General Gordon Baker Jr., Yuri Kochiyama, Donald Freeman, James and Grace Lee Boggs, Herman Ferguson, Askia Muhammad Toure (Rolland Snellings), and Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael).

Papers of Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate of the Black Power Movement: This collection of Amiri Baraka materials was made available by Dr. Komozi Woodard. Dr. Woodard collected these documents during his career as an activist in Newark, New Jersey. The collection consists of rare works of poetry, organizational records, print publications, over one hundred articles, poems, plays, and speeches by Baraka, a small amount of personal correspondence, and oral histories. The collection has been arranged into eighteen series. These series are: (1) Black Arts Movement; (2) Black Nationalism; (3) Correspondence; (4) Newark (New Jersey); (5) Congress of African People; (6) National Black Conferences and National Black Assembly; (7) Black Women’s United Front; (8) Student Organization for Black Unity; (9) African Liberation Support Committee; (10) Revolutionary Communist League; (11) African Socialism; (12) Black Marxists; (13) National Black United Front; (14) Miscellaneous Materials, 1978-1988; (15) Serial Publications; (16) Oral Histories; (17) Woodard’s Office Files.

The collection consists of materials from the years 1913 through 1998 that document African American author and activist Amiri Baraka and were gathered by Dr. Komozi Woodard in the course of his research. The extensive documentation includes poetry, organizational records, print publications, articles, plays, speeches, personal correspondence, oral histories, as well as some personal records. The materials cover Baraka’s involvement in the politics in Newark, N.J. and in Black Power movement organizations such as the Congress of African People, the National Black Conference movement, the Black Women’s United Front. Later materials document Baraka’s increasing involvement in Marxism.

Please send feedback on these trials to bethan.davies@bodleian.ox.ac.uk.

Trial – Publications Romanes et Françaises (until 14 February 2024)

We have trial access to Publications Romanes et Françaises from Librairie Droz until the 14 February 2024.

This collection offers a wide range of important critical works on French medieval literature. Authors examined include Christine de Pizan, Jean de Salisbury, Chrétien de Troyes and Marie de France while the many themes which are explored include the continuing influence of the ancient world on French culture of the Middle Ages, the apocalyptic imagination in French literature in the 12th and 13th centuries and the use of punctuation in the medieval period.

NOTE: After selecting a the text, you can use the red circular tab on the far left of the screen to view its table of contents.

Please send any feedback to nick.hearn@bodleian.ox.ac.uk.