0203, 2016

Church Missionary Society Periodicals: free trial of digital resource

By Mary Fisk|March 2, 2016|Africa, Archival collections, China and Inner Asia, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Religions, South Asia, South East Asia|0 comments

  The College of the Church Missionary Society in Islington (London) – image via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:College_of_the_Church_Missionary_Society_-_Shepherd,_Metropolitan_Improvements_%281828%29,_p293.jpg) The new Church Missionary Society Periodicals collection from digital resource provider Adam Matthew allows library users to browse archives of publications from the Church Missionary Society (CMS), the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society and latterly the South American Missionary Society covering the whole scope of their missionary activity from 1804 to 2009 Founded in 1799,

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0708, 2015

History – June and July 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 7, 2015|History|0 comments

Comparative & Thematic The material of world history / edited by Tina Mai Chen and David S. Churchill The Oxford handbook of environmental history / edited by Andrew C. Isenberg The great sea: a human history of the Mediterranean [updated edition] / David Abulafia. Empire by treaty: negotiating European expansion, 1600-1900 / edited by Saliha Belmessous. The pursuit of history: aims, methods and new directions in the study of history

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2904, 2012

History – April 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 29, 2012|History|0 comments

Presenting history: past and present / Peter Beck Making history: the historian and uses of the past / Jorma Kalela State, society and culture in Indian history / Satish Chandra Subaltern lives: biographies of colonialism in the Indian Ocean world, 1790-1920 / Clare Anderson The Gulf States : a modern history / David Commins.  Is history fiction? / Ann Curthoys and John Docker. Diplomacy and nation-building in Africa : Franco-British

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