We now have access to Literary Manuscripts: 17th and 18th Century Poetry from the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds, via Adam Matthew Digital.

About this e-resource
Examine complete images of 190 manuscripts of seventeenth and eighteenth-century verse held in the celebrated Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds. These manuscripts can be read and explored in conjunction with the Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse Index, which includes first lines, last lines, attribution, author, title, date, length, verse form, content and bibliographic references for over 6,600 poems within the collection.

Alongside original compositions are copied verses, translations, songs and riddles. The whole collection is situated within an assortment of manuscripts, some entirely dedicated to poetry, while others contain medicinal recipes, household accounts, draft letters, musical scores and plays. There are also several printed works, with handwritten verse additions.

We now have access to Royal Shakespeare Company Archives: From Playwrights to Performance 1889-2013, via Adam Matthew Digital.

About this e-resource
Royal Shakespeare Company Archives provides a comprehensive record of the performance history of the Royal Shakespeare Company and its predecessor, the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. Browse and compare almost 1,400 prompt books to uncover how productions took shape, and explore the creative process behind the company’s most important presentations in extensive additional documentation including production records, costume designs, music files and photographs.

We now have access to Churchill Acquired Papers, within the Bloomsbury Churchill Archive, via Bloomsbury.

About this e-resource
In 2024, the Acquired Papers were added to the Churchill Archive in collaboration with The Churchill Archives Centre, spanning items such as previously unseen personal letters, speech notes and diary entries. Including more than 1,700 documents, the Acquired Papers further enhance the unrivalled insights that the Churchill Archive has to offer scholars and students. Covering not only Winston Churchill’s personal and political life, but also the global politics of the 20th century, the documents are a unique record of these tumultuous decades.

You’ll find personal documents written about and by notable historic figures including:

• Sir Winston Churchill
• Lady Randolph Churchill
• Prime Minister Herbert Asquith
• Lord High Chancellor F.E. Smith
• Sir Noël Coward

Experience global events through firsthand accounts such as:

• Notes for Churchill’s first political speech in 1897
• Letters sent during Churchill’s time at the Western Front in 1916
• The Prime Minister’s appointment diary for 1944
• Material regarding the bombing of Dresden in 1945
• Notes on Churchill’s famed Iron Curtain Speech of 1946

This exceptional collection offers an abundance of new and noteworthy details for students, researchers, academics, and anyone interested in Winston Churchill and 20th century history.

We now have access to China Ancient Books Catalogue, via China International Book Trading Corporation (CIBTC).

About this e-resource
The General Catalogue of Chinese Ancient Books is a general catalogue of existing Chinese ancient books, which aims to comprehensively reflect the varieties, editions and collection status of Chinese ancient books stored in major libraries in China (mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) and some overseas libraries.

The “General Catalogue” collects Chinese books written by people from ancient times to the early Republic of China and copied, engraved, typeset, and photocopied, gathers the records of various collections, follows the traditional four-part classification method, and classifies and records the titles and volumes of each book, the author’s era, the author’s name, the method of writing, the year of publication, the publisher, the place of publication, the type of edition, and the inscription of each book, and at the same time reflects the information of the main collection institutions of each book.

The “General Catalogue” has completed the largest investigation and description of the existing Chinese ancient books so far, recorded most of the editions of the existing Chinese ancient books, and recorded the rare varieties of Chinese ancient books collected by libraries in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, Japan, Korea, North America, Western Europe, etc., providing bibliographic tools for experts and scholars and a communication platform for ancient book peers.

We now have access to Papers of Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate of the Black Power Movement, via Gale.

About this e-resource
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 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.