Winifred Llewhellin, born on 15 June 1879, began writing in a diary at the age of 16 and continued doing so until her death. This extensive online collection includes 30 large volumes that document her daily life in Edwardian England - there are even photographs! Not all of her diaries ar...
Discipline and rules are the foundation on which Samantha Ingles has built her life—the life of a spinster schoolteacher in a small mining town in the Canadian Rockies. All that crumbles from her grasp when part of a mountain crashes down on their community. Constable David Harty has little ...
ProQuest Historical Newspapers™ • U.S. Stand-Alone Titles • Black Newspapers • Canadian Newspapers • International Newspapers • American Jewish Newspapers • Specialty Collections U.S. Regional Collections ProQuest Historical Newspapers includes six new regional collections, each featuring ...
Due primarily to increased interest by title searchers for online access, as well as to help cut access/personnel costs in the future, many U.S. counties, especially in the eastern part of the country, have started putting their historical deed records online. The best place to begin your s...
Can someone tell me whether I can downloaded any pdf type Dutch or Portuguese Football magazines or newspapers on the website? I have downloaded some “A Bola” through scribd or others, but I can’t find any “Voetbal International” on the website. If there is any digital newspapers whi...
Many Canadian readers know where I’m going with this, let alone fans of graphic novels, because it is still one of the most acclaimed graphic histories and graphic biographies to date. I’m referring, of course, to the man who led the negotiations: a Metis man by the name of Louis Ri...
Building a collection of Canadian newspapers : An overview of the English-Language press in Canada This study examines the reading interests and preferences of Russian-speaking immigrants in Toronto with regard to periodicals, and discusses Russian-language periodicals published in the Greater Toronto Are...
Instead of being an extractive process, he notes how in some communities, such as the Hadza of Tanzania or the Canadian Inuit, gambling was a way to redistribute scarce resources; the means to ensure that one person or unit within the community did not obtain too much of a commodity ...
The ceremony was mentioned in passing by local newspapers, whose coverage focused on the world premiere of the movie that night at the Canadian National Exhibition. Similar neglect would befall her footprints, which were covered up for years. They returned to public view when the theatre, later ...
As the Canadian scholar Bernard Yack notes, regardless of whether we are talking about civic or ethnic nations, the idea of a common heritage is the main qualifier that distinguishes a national community from other types of social integration.6 However,historian Aleida Assman and sociologist Sigmund...