General
Information
 Strong
holdings in British and Commonwealth history have been
a hallmark
of the Stanford University Libraries since its founding.
Shortly after
the founding of the University in 1891, the library began
acquiring
primary materials dealing with British history, including
a substantial
collection of documents and books relating to British railroads
in the
Timothy Hopkins Collection, and an extremely valuable set
of British
Parliamentary Papers acquired by Jane Stanford with the assistance
of
History Professor George E. Howard.
Particular
strengths lie in an extensive collection of microfilm materials
relating to the history of Great Britain, including
a large
number of microfilm sets that reproduce manuscript materials
from early
modern England, through such holdings as the Mass Observation
Archive of
the 20th century. Holdings of government documents in
the Jonsson
Library are also very strong, including an excellent collection
of
Cabinet Office and Foreign Office materials on microform.
Coupled
with the Hoover
Institution's extensive collection of archival
materials relating
to
British political parties (particularly the Labour Party),
foreign relations between the
two world wars, and decolonization, resources for the
study of
British and
Commonwealth History at Stanford are rich and varied.
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Contact
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Benjamin
Stone, Curator
Green Library — HASRC, McDermott Suite
Stanford, CA 94305-6066
voice: (650) 725-1180
fax: (650) 725-1068
email: bstone@stanford.edu
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