History tourism

Article from Time Magazine on how plans to develop the ancient Egyptian sites at Luxor and expand its tourist infrastructure are uprooting local residents and are possibly damaging to the archaeological remains themselves. Will the reconstructed "Avenue of the Sphinxes" be anything more than "Vegas on the Nile"?

Poetry in Ancient China and Archaic Greece

Alexander Beecroft's "Authorship and cultural identity in early Greece and China: patterns of literary circulation" reviewed by Hyun Jin Kim of Sydney University in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 

Published this year by Cambridge University Press, this is a "sophisticated comparative study of Archaic Greek and early Chinese poetry"

Read the book in SOAS Library - shelved at CC808.0209 / 734034 (Level C, stacks 152-155)

Updated research guide launched on the BLE

A fully updated version of the History research guide (containing information on how to search full-text and bibliographic databases, internet resources in SOAS and beyond, and tips on how to keep up to date with your research and manage references and citations) has just been launched on the Information Skills: History site on the BLE - go to the Research Guides tab

Open Access journals in Ancient Studies

700 open access journals on all aspects of the ancient world (including Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, and Hebraic studies as well as the "Ancient Near East") are currently available through this alphabetical list on the AWOL (Ancient World Online blog) from the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University

Click here to link to the AWOL blog and keep up to date with new open access journals online and newly released networked content on the Ancient World

A potted history of Alexandria

"Alexandria at the crossroads" - an illustrated article from the online edition of Saudi Aramco World magazine (September / October 2010), taking the reader on a quick trip through the history of the city from the Pharaohs to the present day.
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Welcome to SOAS

Welcome to all new and returning students

The History Library blog will give

• details of information skills training offered by Library staff
• Library updates
• details of new web resources and recommended websites
• and lots more !!

If you have not been on a Library tour yet, there are more tours running next week on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 1 p.m., 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. 

The tours start from open area at the top of the stairs on the 3rd Floor of the School Building (near "Library Tours Start Here" sign !!)

Library training sessions run throughout the year. There will be general introductory sessions on a variety of topics during the first few weeks of term. 

Pick up a handout at the Enquiry Desk for further details of our introductory sessions - Getting started, Electronic journals and bibliographic databases, and Beyond Google: using the Internet for research

For further information on the Library and Library resources, go to the main Library website or go to the Information Skills section on the BLE

As your Librarian, I will be here to help. You can contact me on ms28@soas.ac.uk  or drop in to Room C3 in the Library