A guide to the major information sources in the social sciences. It covers directory sources, abstracting and indexing services in print and electronic form, statistics, newspapers, grey literature, and UK and EU official information. It includes suggestions on how to make the best use of free Internet sources, and how to keep up to date with developments in the field. It is aimed at undergraduates, those starting postgraduate studies, ...

Since its inception in 1989, EMS has established itself as the foremost venue for the study of manuscript sources for British literature and intellectual history from medieval to early modern times. Aiming as much as ever to explore the possibilities of manuscript study in this period, Volume 11 includes significant contributions by some of the leading authorities in the field. Contents include: 'Philip Sidney's Letter to Queen Elizabeth and ...

This is the first comprehensive guide to one of the world's greatest collections of Greek manuscripts. Fully indexed, it describes all the Library's manuscripts in the Greek language, with the exception of the separate collections of papyri and ostraca. Ranging in date from the 3rd century B.C. to the present century, these manuscripts comprise mainly Biblical, patristic, liturgical, classical texts, but also include papers of scholars relating ...

Memorial volumes are books dedicated to cities, towns and villages, mainly in Central and Eastern Europe, whose Jewish populations were annihilated during the Holocaust. Published by organisations of Jewish survivors since the early 1940s, their chief aim is to commemorate and record for posterity the history of the localities before the Second World War, the events that led to their destruction and the fate of the individuals who inhabited them. ...

Three titles in an innovative new series, telling the stories of much loved objects. 15 col, 5 b/w illus and 1 map in each. ...

At the start of the nineteenth century, science was a minority cultural interest. By the end it had become one of the central components of contemporary thought. The growth of science as a profession began taking shape in the Victorian period and was due to the influence of just a small group of men. Who these men were and how they created the foundations of the modern scientific community we recognize today is revealed, in this ...

This volume discusses lampstands and lamps made of metal. Drawn from several British Museum Departments, including Greek and Roman, Egyptian, Prehistoric and Romano-British and Medieval and Later Antiquities, all the material is illustrated in the plates, showing the diversity of forms that derive from the lamps' being produced in one-off moulds. The bronze and brass lamps range from simple plain specimens to those of remarkable complexity and ...

This Guide Leads the Reader Through Every Aspect of Retailing in the UK, from the social and environmental aspects inherent in out-of-town development and the diminution of the high street to the brave new world of electronic commerce. There have been profound changes in the way we shop. Small corner shops are rapidly disappearing as they are unable to compete with supermarkets. Traffic, parking problems and high rents have forced many ...

A showcase of outstanding American prints from 1905 to 1960 from the British Museum's extraordinary collection, the most comprehensive outside of the United States.
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Fred Williams (1927-82) is a key figure in Australian art of the second half of the twentieth century, best known for his paintings of the Australian landscape. Printmaking, which he took up in London in 1954, was always of central importance in his work, and no other Australian artist of comparable stature produced such a large and significant body of prints, the vast majority of them etchings. From the beginning Williams' practice as an etcher ...