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British
& Commonwealth History - Collections
20th Century
| Online
Resources |
Databases
& Websites
House
of Commons Parliamentary Papers Full-text searchable
sessional papers from 1801-2004.
Imperial War Museum:
Collections Online. Access to over 6,000 highlights from
the IWM collection, including photographs, works of art, audio
extracts, aircraft and vehicles, documents and library material
as well as detailed catalogue information on over 160,000
items. See also their Online
Exhibitions.
Official Documents,
1994-present. The official reference facility for Command
Papers, Departmentally Sponsored House of Commons Papers and
key Departmental Papers.
Presenting
Britain: Posters; Sewers; Bloomsbury. Contains images
of British World War I and II posters, processed from slides
from the Hoover Archives.
Public
Information Films, 1945-1951 (The National Archives).
A selection of public information films featuring concerns
and events from Britain's post-war history.
The World War
I Document Archive
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Periodicals
& Newspapers
Penny
Illustrated Paper (British Library). Search the complete
run of the Penny Illustrated Paper. Published from 1861
to 1913, it contains news of everday life set against
the panorama of historical events in Britain and across
the Empire.
Times
(London) Digital Archive(1785-1985) 
Official
Index to The Times (1906-1980)
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Library
Collections
The
British Collection, Hoover Institution Library and Archives.
The British Collection is strong on material on the two world
wars, British foreign relations between the wars, decolonization,
and, most important, the Labour Party. One of the first major
acquisitions in 1919 was the Wellington House library of British
wartime propaganda pamphlets. Holdings cover Great Britain's
history in World War I and postwar events from the British
point of view in Documents on British Foreign Policy (1919-39).
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| Print
Resources |
Encyclopedias
& Handbooks
A
Companion to Contemporary Britain, 1939-2000, edited
by Paul Addison and Harriet Jones.
Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005
Location: Green Library, HASRC (DA592.C613 2005)
Encyclopedia
of Contemporary British Culture, edited by Peter
Childs and Mike Storry.
London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Location: Green Library, Lane Room: Non-circulating (DA589.4
.E53 1999)
The Blackwell Biographical Dictionary of British
Political Life in the Twentieth Century, edited
by Keith Robbins.
Oxford, UK; Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Reference, 1990.
Location: Green Library, Lane Room: Non-circulating (DA556.9
.A1 B57 1990)
Twentieth-Century Britain: An Encyclopedia,
edited by F.M. Leventhal.
New York: Garland Pub., 1995.
Location: Green Library, Information Center: Non-circulating
(DA566 .T835 1995)
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Journals
Twentieth
Century British History
Volume/date range: Vol. 1, no. 1 (1990)-
Location: Green Library, latest year or volume in Current Periodicals; earlier
in Stacks (DA566 .T85 v.1-15)
Journal of Contemporary History
Volume/date range: v. 1- 1966-
Location: Green Library, latest year or volume in Current Periodicals; earlier
in Stacks (D1050 .J68 v.1-40)
Electronic version available to Stanford-affiliated users
at Sage Publications; OCLC;
and JSTOR.
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Bibliographies
A
Bibliography of British History, 1914-1989.
Compiled and edited by Keith Robbins.
Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press,
1996.
Location: Green Library, Information Center: Non-circulating
(Z2019 .R63 1996)
British History, 1945-1987: An Annotated Bibliography,
Peter Catterall.
Oxford, UK; Cambridge Mass.,
USA: B. Blackwell, 1991.
Location: Green Library, Information Center: Non-Circulating (Z2020.3 .C37 1991)
Bibliography of the Writings of Sir Winston Churchill, Ronald
I. Cohen.
London: Thoemmes, 2006.
Location: Green Library, Lane Reading Room, Z8169.45 .C64
2006 vols. I-III
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| Microform
Resources |
Documents
Rare
Radical and Labour Periodicals of Great Britain
A
collection of over 100 rare 19th-century periodicals which
record the history of working-class life, the response
to industrial society, the formation of the British Labour
Party, the rapid growth of the trade union movement, and
the impact of World War I and the General Strike of 1926.
The collection is broken down into two series covering
the 19th and early 20th centuries, and represents a large
number of periodicals (Worker's Cry, Trade Unionist, People's
Newspaper, Yorkshire Tribune, Red Rag, etc.) and famous
radicals, such as George Bernard Shaw, John Burns, Keir
Hardie, Tom Mann, Annie Besant and George Lansbury. Based
on the The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals,
1790-1970: A Check-List, by Royden Harrison, which
contains information about the dates, publishers,
and viewpoints of the titles in
the microfilm collection.
Location: Green Library, Media Microtext Collection
Series One: MFILM N.S. 3011
Series Two: MFILM N.S. 3627
Warwick Guide: Z7164.L1H37 1976
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January 23, 2008
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