Information resources for history: reminder

Just a reminder that there will be a demonstration looking at information resources for history (print and electronic) in SOAS Library and beyond, to be held in Room 379 on Tuesday 16th November, between 2 and 3 p.m.
I will be looking in depth at various databases (full-text and bibliographic) and pointing the way to some less familiar resources available in the Library.
This session will be suitable for all students
The room only holds about 12 people comfortably, so please let me know if you plan to attend

Contact me on ms28@soas.ac.uk

African history seminar

On 17th November, Dr. Kate Skinner from the University of Birmingham will give the African History Seminar on "Local historians and strangers with big eyes: the politics of Ewe history in Ghana and its global diaspora"
This will take place in Room 563 (College Buildings, Russell Square Campus) between 5 and 7 p.m.

Contact Prof. Tom McCaskie (tm2@soas.ac.uk) for further details

Resources for the study of history : demonstration

On Tuesday 16th November there will be a demonstration highlighting both electronic and print resources in SOAS Library for the study of history. It will look at making the most of the SOAS Library catalogue, full-text and bibliographic databases, internet resources, taking your research beyond SOAS and keeping up-to-date with  the latest research in your topic.
It will take place in Room 379, between 2 and 3 p.m. (maximum 12 places)
Please contact me (ms28@soas.ac.uk) for further details

Suez ceasefire: 6th November 1956

6th November 1956 saw British and French forces seize control of major ports in Egypt's Canal Zone and declare a ceasefire to bring the Suez Crisis to a close.  Israel also announced a ceasefire in Sinai . The conflict had broken out after President Abdel Nasser angered British and French companies by nationalising the Suez Canal. He also blockaded the Straits of Tiran - Israel's main outlet into the Red Sea.
Read more on the BBC History's "On this day" website

Egypt: ancient and modern (digital archive)

The Virtual Library on Ancient and Modern Egypt is a collection of digitized documents and rare books from museums, archives and other collections in Southern France (Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur) collated by the E-corpus Virtual Collections project
Enter a simple keyword search, or use "advanced search" to construct a more detailed query to search across the content of documents in the collection. The documents also contain material on other countries of the Middle East and Africa.
The documents are primarily in French.
E-Corpus is worth a browse for other documents relating to French interests in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

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)