Eighteenth Century Journals Portal – Part III now available.

The Eighteenth Century Journals Portal offers seamless integration between all collections and enables streamlined browsing and searching via a single user interface.  We’ve been pleased to offer the York community access to Parts I and 11 since spring of 2008. Part III is now available.
NEW CONTENT: Eighteenth Century Journals III is drawn from British Library [...]

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Mass Observation Online – new content.

We originally purchased Mass Observation Online in the spring of 2007.  Two years later, Adam Matthew Digital is offering an update to that content. Below is a description of the original archive as well as the 2009 additions.
It has been used by anthropologists, cultural and social historians, literary scholars, performance artists, sociologists, and those working [...]

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Opera in Video

Opera in Video will contain 250 of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work’s importance to the operatic canon. This release includes 42 videos, equalling 84 hours.

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Dance in Video

Dance in Video will contain 250 dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. This release includes 150 videos, equalling 201 hours

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