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Now trialling: Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War
Ends: Friday 18^th August 2017

http://www.secretintelligencefiles.com/

Provides 144,000 pages of British government secret intelligence and foreign policy files sourced from The National Archives U.K. Content which is only available elsewhere by visiting the National Archives in London.

Contains nine file series which span four major Twentieth-Century conflicts – the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War, the early years of the Cold War and the Korean War. Includes multiple search and filter options and a series of essays written by the resource Editorial Board of academic experts that contextualize the material and highlights key themes.

Secret intelligence has long been regarded as the ‘missing dimension’ of international relations. However, thanks to the Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War project, Britain’s spies, security agents, codebreakers and deceptioneers are no longer missing in action. Denis Smyth, University of Toronto, Canada

NOTE: The My Archive and the Document Download functions are not available on this trial edition of Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War. Documents can be viewed using the image viewer function.

If you have any comments or feedback on this resource, please let us know:

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/WWNFM7Z

Queen’s students and staff have trail access to Electronic Enlightenment. Electronic Enlightenment is the most wide-ranging online collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.

This trial provides access to an unparalleled, multidisciplinary, evolving resource that brings the past to life, allowing the user to explore the relationships and the movement of ideas of the early modern period through its web of correspondences. Eavesdrop on the private conversations and thoughts of a wide range of figures such as Voltaire and Rousseau, and also the lesser-known, from bankers to booksellers, merchants to mathematicians, and scholars to servants.

Content

• 8,560 correspondents
• 53 nationalities from Europe, Asia & the Americas
• 777 occupations
• 70,057 letters and documents
• Information on 64,741 manuscript and 106,933 early edition sources
• 319,778 scholarly annotations
• 11 languages, including English, French, German & Italian
• 1,476 links to and from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• External links to over 50 other online resources

Access ends on 03/08/2017. Access is available at the following URL:

http://queens.ezp1.qub.ac.uk/login?url=http://www.e-enlightenment.com

If you have any comments or feedback on this resource, please let us know:

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/TMVJLYY

QUB staff and students now have trial access to Mass Observation Online.  Access ends on 31/07/2017. Access is available at the following URL:

www.massobservation.amdigital.co.uk

You can also gain access via the ‘trial access login’ link, which is located on the homepage and throughout the Adam Matthew website at www.amdigital.co.uk. (Please ensure that you select the ‘Access Via IP’ option).

This resource offers revolutionary access to one of the most important archives for the study of Social History in the modern era. Explore original manuscript and typescript papers created and collected by the Mass Observation organisation, as well as printed publications, photographs and interactive features.

If you have any comments or feedback on this resource, please let us know:

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/TVWGYQV