Cambridge Histories Online: new online resource

SOAS Library now has access to the complete Cambridge Histories Online containing over 270 volumes published since 1960, covering over 15 different academic subjects. Users can search and browse content, personalise the interface including, saved & most recent searches, workspaces and bookmarks and export citations.

Includes: The Cambridge History of Music, The Cambridge History of Islam & The New Cambridge History of Islam, The Cambridge History of Judaism, The Cambridge History of Political Thought, The Cambridge History of Africa, The Cambridge History of Ancient China, The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia, The Cambridge History of Egypt, The Cambridge History of Iran, The Cambridge History of Japan, The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, The New Cambridge History of India and many more...

http://histories.cambridge.org/ [On-campus]
http://bit.ly/CHOnline [Off-campus]

Two new history websites

For those interested in the history of Asia Minor, the Black Sea area and Constantinople / Byzantium 

Encyclopedia of the Hellenic World

This resource is maintained by the Foundation of the Hellenic World and co-funded by the EU. The Encyclopedia covers Asia Minor, the Black Sea area and Constantinople / Byzantium from ancient times and includes articles, bibliographies, a directory of related weblinks and an historical interactive atlas with audio-visual material. Some parts of the site are still under construction. Texts are multilingual, but there is a "translate" facility. The site has both simple and advanced search options.

For those interested in modern Japanese history and / or  the history of the Second World War

Japan air raids: a bilingual historical archive

This website has been created by Professor Cary Karacas of City University of New York (College of Staten Island) and includes an online archive of documents, film reels and photographs relating to the bombing of Japan during World War 2, from both Japanese and American perspectives

"Histories of Partition": guide to online resources posted on BLE

A guide to online resources in SOAS Library to support the course "Histories of Partition: India and Palestine, 1947-1948" has just been posted on the BLE
The guide also includes links to selected websites, including the newly released film and oral history archive from Cambridge University Institute of South Asian Studies, which has amateur film of Partition refugees, and interviews discussing Partition


The Guide can be found on the Library Information Skills section of the BLE. Go to the History pages and look under Research Guides

"Beyond the syllabus" presentation handout now added to BLE

A PDF copy of the presentation "Beyond the syllabus" on finding your own historical resources, from the Week 7 Approaches to History lecture (Empire) on 22nd November, has just been added to the History pages of Library Information Skills section of the BLE, under the heading "Research guides"
If anyone has any queries about the session, or would like additional information, please contact me.


Mary Seeley (Library, Room C3)
ms28@soas.ac.uk
020-7898-4195