Bodleian Libraries users now have access to African Newspapers, Series 1 and African Newspapers, Series 2 from Readex.

Series 1 collects more than 60 African newspapers from the 19th and 20th centuries. It features titles from Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

Series 2 collects more than 35 additional African newspapers from the 19th and 20th centuries. It contains such notable publications as the Demain (Algeria), Africa’s Luminary (Liberia), France Orientale (Madagascar), Al-Moghreb Al-Aksa (Morocco); O Moçambique (Mozambique), Voortrekker (Namibia), Nigerian Times (Nigeria), Munno (Uganda) and many widely sought South African titles from Cape Town, Grahamstown, Port Elizabeth, Pietermaritzburg and Johannesburg. Among the South African titles are Black Man, British Settler, Cape Times, Johannesburg Times, South African Spectator and others.

Both series can be cross-searched as part of Readex’s World Newspaper Archive.

Bodleian Libraries users now have access to the Classic Sermon Index from Classic Sermon Index, LLC.

This resource catalogues over 40,000 sermons, published or translated into English. It includes Augustine, John Calvin, Richard Baxter, John Donne, Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Johnson, Martin Luther, John Henry Newman, John and Charles Wesley, Catherine Booth, Alexander Campbell, B. B. Warfield, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Karl Barth, Martin Luther King, Jr., etc. and sermons by the heads of the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Dublin, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Brown, etc.

Many sermons are from historically significant public executions, funerals, and coronations, such as spoken sermons from the funerals of George Washington and King George III. Many topical sermons about duelling, slavery, the Boston Tea Party, and other period specific issues are also indexed.

Each sermon is catalogued according to its principal text (e.g., John 3:16), author, book title, and page number within the book that contains it. It also indexes the sermons from Readex’s Early American Imprint series. Roughly 75% of the citations link to full-text.

Bodleian Libraries users now have access to Palestine: The British Mandate 1917–1948 from De Gruyter Brill.

This collection offers a comprehensive range of primary sources on the history of Mandatory Palestine. It gives access to the principal memoranda, statements and reports published during the time of the British Mandate, from the Balfour Declaration of 1917 to the end of the Mandate in 1948. It includes the White Papers and reports relating to the Official Commissions sent to Palestine. Also included are the British reports to the Permanent Mandate Commission of the League of Nations, since Palestine was assigned to the League of Nations, Great Britain being the trustee. In addition, the collection contains sources pertaining to the social, demographic and economic development of Palestine.

Bodleian Libraries users now have access to the Local and Independent Ukrainian Newspapers collection from East View.

The 1990s and early 2000s were a tumultuous time in Ukraine’s history. The fall of the Soviet Union and the establishment of independent Ukraine radically altered its political system. Citizens were guaranteed free speech and property rights; however, they suffered under a prolonged economic depression. In 2000, corruption scandals and the murder of investigative journalist Georgiy Gongadze triggered nationwide protests against Ukraine’s political elites.

The Local and Independent Ukrainian Newspapers collection traces the history of Ukraine during this early period of independence, and the events leading up to the Orange Revolution (2004–2005). Comprising over 900 titles, this database includes local newspapers from over 340 cities and towns—including publications from each of Ukraine’s 27 regions. This hyperlocal coverage provides researchers with granular insight into regional and ethnic interests, concerns, and conflicts that are still relevant today.

Many of the titles are in Ukrainian and Russian; this collection also includes ethnic newspapers in languages such as: Armenian, Crimean Tatar, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Polish, and more. A limited number of contemporaneous Ukrainian community publications from other territories are also included.

Bodleian Libraries users now have access to Mass Observation Project 1981-2019. Module I, 1980s from AM. The Mass Observation Project database provides digital access to a unique life-writing archive, capturing British people’s everyday experiences, thoughts and opinions.

The Bodleian Libraries have acquired access to the first module, consisting of all the directives (questionnaires) sent out by Mass Observation between 1981 and 1989 (plus one from 1990) and the responses to them from the hundreds of Mass Observers. The directives address varied topics across current affairs, social trends and aspects of everyday life and attitudes, including the Falklands War, clothing, attitudes to the USA, reading and television habits, morality and religion, and Britain’s relations with Europe. Together they form a rich picture of British life in the 1980s.