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Irish Newspaper Archives
This database is a trial which expires November 30, 2026. We appreciate your feedback.
Irish Newspaper Archives includes 260+ titles and approximately 19.5 million pages, 1733 to the present, covering 30 of Ireland's 32 counties. The database also includes the Radical Newspaper Archive - 115 scarce, short-run titles documenting Ireland's labour, suffrage, republican, and revolutionary movements. Many of these papers only ran for a few months and are rarely archived anywhere else.
Oxford Bibliographies in Environmental History
This database is a trial which expires December 4, 2026. We appreciate your feedback.
Oxford Bibliographies in Environmental History is a cutting-edge and authoritative resource that guides researchers, teachers, and students to the most important scholarship in the field. Since its founding in 1979 the field of Environmental History has become one of the fastest-growing subfields of historical inquiry. Environmental History explores the relationships between human communities and the natural world across time and space. It presumes the centrality of nature to human affairs, whether in the context of daily life, the development of social and political structures, or the creation of artistic, religious, and philosophical traditions. It sheds light on how societies have navigated changing environmental conditions due to climate change; air, soil, and water pollution; species extinction; or altered resource availability because of economic exploitation or violent conflict. Environmental History traces the ways communities—urban and rural, nations and neighborhoods, political, social, and intellectual—perceive, engage with, and shape nature and how, in turn, nature shapes them.
The British Union of Fascists: 1933-1953
This database is a trial which expires November 25, 2026. We appreciate your feedback.
Often associated with the regimes of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Germany and Italy, fascism was a conspicuous feature of the British political landscape during the 1930s and 1940s. Founded in 1932 by former Conservative and Labour MP Oswald Mosley, the British Union of Fascists (BUF) initially garnered considerable support, including from popular periodicals such as the Daily Mail. The party and its supporters—known as “blackshirts”—drew on racist British imperial discourse and mirrored the antisemitic attitudes of its German and Italian counterparts. The party frequently engaged in violent confrontations with anti-fascist groups, culminating in the Battle of Cable Street in London’s East End, in October 1936.
Featuring nearly 8,000 images, this collection contains a wealth of material charting the political trajectory of Mosley and the BUF between 1933 and 1953. It holds a cross section of personal papers from key members of the British fascist movement, such as Nazi propagandist William Joyce (commonly known as “Lord Haw Haw”). The collection also includes documents from various UK government departments which, throughout the 1930s and 1940s, sought to temper the influence of the BUF leader and his supporters. These include documents detailing MI5’s surveillance of Mosley and his wife Diana Mosley (née Mitford), which led to their eventual internment in 1940 after the Battle of France.Vanderbilt TV News Archive (Must Create Account Using W&M Email Address)
This database is a trial which expires November 30, 2026. We appreciate your feedback.
The Vanderbilt TV News Archive began operations on August 5, 1968 with the mission to record, preserve, and provide research access to news programs broadcast by national television networks in the United States.The core collection of the archive consists of regularly scheduled evening newscasts from ABC (since 1968), CBS (1968), NBC (1968), CNN (1994), Fox News (2004), MSNBC (2024), and NewsMax (2024). Additionally, the Special Reports Collection includes television news coverage of major national and world events, such as political conventions, election coverage, presidential speeches, and military conflicts. The database currently includes over 1.5 million records, including story level abstracts for evening newscasts and catalog records for special reports.Users must create an account using their @wm.edu email address. In order to view a clip, users must add the clip to their basket and checkout, after which the clip will be added to their account and should be viewable within a few minutes if not instantaneously. Users are limited to 2400 minutes of viewing per month.