19th Century British Pamphlets Trial

The library currently has trial access to Research Libraries UK’s 19th Century British Pamphlets collection.

The collection covers over 26,000 pamphlets and over 1 million pages of some of the most significant 19th Century pamphlet collections, covering the social, economic and political issues concerning Britain in the 19th Century.

The records are integrated into JSTOR and can be browsed chronologically and searched by text up until June 30th 2009.

JSTOR’s page describing the collection in detail can be accessed from here: http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=e1001083

If you do make use of the trail the library would welcome your feedback via the E-resource trials feedback form here:

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/databases/trial_feedback/index.htm

British Cabinet Papers 1915 - 1978

The library now has electronic access to the Cabinet Papers for 1915 – 1978 provided by the National Archives.

They contain a core collection of over half a million government records covering the years 1915-1978. All of the records are fully searchable as scanned PDFs but can also be browsed by thematic and historical overviews covering three main themes of British Governance in the 20th century:

The United Kingdom and the world
The economy, business and resources, and
Society and the Welfare State

The National Archives plan to add to the collection in the future by releasing and digitising more papers as they become available for release to the public.

The catalogue link can be found here

The library also currently provides a microfilm run of earlier cabinet papers for the years 1880-1916 which can be found here

19th Century British Pamphlets Trial

19th Century British Pamphlets is now available through JSTOR as a trail until the 30th June.

19th Century Pamphlets Online will provide access to some of the most significant collections of pamphlets held in UK research libraries.
This includes the personal collections of Joseph Hume (from UCL) and Joseph Cowen (Newcastle), the family collections of the Earls Grey
(Durham) and Earls of Derby (Liverpool), the Foreign Office and Colonial Office collections (Manchester), and selections from the large collections held by LSE and the University of Bristol. In all, more than 1 million pages (about 23,000 pamphlets) will be digitised and made freely available to UK users via JSTOR in early 2009.

You can access this resource here through the Library catalogue.

Cabinet Papers, 1915-1978 from the UK National Archives

The full text of UK cabinet papers from this period is now freely available from the National Archives website. You can either search (for example by date and keyword) or you can browse papers on specific themes. There is a link to these papers from the E-Resources for Hisory Guide.

Trial of the Electronic Enlightenment

The Library is currently offering trial access to OUP’s newest online resource, the Electronic Enlightenment. You can find this listed in the Library Catalogue or under ‘Use e-resources’ in the listing under ‘Trial e-resources’. The trial lasts until 3 December 2008.

OUP describes the EE as “The online gateway to the long 18th century”, offering unrivalled access to the web of correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the long 18th century and their families and friends, bankers and booksellers, patrons and publishers.

It includes the full critical editions of the letters of more than 3,800 writers including Addison, Bentham, Boswell, Defoe, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Locke, Pope, Rousseau, Smith, Swift, Sterne and Voltaire but in total covers nearly 6,000 correspondents and over 80,000 document sources, both manuscript and printed.

We should need to give very careful thought to the (recurrent) cost implications in considering a subscription to a resource of this kind. Your comments on the EE’s potential usefulness, especially in relation to your own teaching and/or research, would be very much appreciated. You can send them directly to me (a.c.farr@leeds.ac.uk) or use the online feedback form for e-resource trials.