Special Collections Exhibitions

This year sees the 350th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Society, the world’s oldest scientific institution. An exhibition at the entrance to the Brotherton Library marks this occasion, displaying books and manuscripts from Special Collections, including works by Robert Hooke and Sir Isaac Newton.

There is also an exhibition in the Special Collections foyer which uses books, broadsheets and cartoons to illustrate the development of elections, electioneering and voting in Britain over the past 300 years.

Richard High (Special Collections)

New Books

New books have been added to the Brotherton Library. You can find a list on the library website at: http://lib5.leeds.ac.uk/ralist/bl0.htm

International Studies Encyclopedia

A new important resource has been added to stock.
The International Studies Encyclopedia and its online version, International Studies Online, published in association with the International Studies Association (ISA), is the most comprehensive reference work of its kind for the fields of international studies and international relations. The 12 volume print version is arranged in A-Z format and brings together specially commissioned, peer reviewed essays, written and edited by an international team of the world's best scholars and teachers (including staff of University of Leeds). Core for POLIS but of relevance to other Schools across the faculties with related interests (History, Earth & Environment, Law, etc.)
Key features:
Over 400 peer reviewed essays of up to 10,000 words focusing on the most important topics and issues
The essays are designed to allow readers to be brought quickly up-to-date on the current state of debates
Comprehensive coverage of the field
Extensive index volume

International Studies Online arriving soon will be updated twice annually and enhanced by live links to archives, datasets, cases, pedagogical aids, and other relevant materials.

New Books

New books have been added to the Brotherton Library. You can find a list on the library website at: http://lib5.leeds.ac.uk/ralist/bl0.htm

Refugee Voices: an e-resource now available

Refugee Voices is a collection of 150 filmed interviews with former refugees from Nazism now living in Britain. It was commissioned by the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) in 2003, and consists of more than 450 hours of filmed interviews.

All interviews have been fully transcribed enabling a researcher to be able to see an interview and then to read a transcript of the words spoken in it, or vice versa. Both films and the transcripts are time-coded, making it possible to locate specific passages with a minimum of effort. Each interview is also accompanied by still shots of photos of family members, friends, and places of importance for the interviewee, along with items or documents of special significance in the interviewee’s life. These filmed photographs, artefacts, and documents provide a rich resource.

Refugee Voices is now available in Special Collections. Please look for it in the catalogue.

New Books

New books have been added to the Brotherton Library. You can find a list on the library website at: http://lib5.leeds.ac.uk/ralist/bl0.htm

New Books

New books have been added to the Brotherton Library. You can find a list on the library website at: http://lib5.leeds.ac.uk/ralist/bl0.htm