Historical Perspectives on Canadian Publishing

Spring publications, 1927 / George H. Doran Company (Canada) Limited
Membership application form from Network Foundation for Educational Publishing, [1981]
Guernica Editions : catalogue, 1978-1991
Notebook of Nora Keeling, re research for crime story, 11 June 1994

This site features nearly 100 case studies – short essays written by Canadian scholars – on topics relating to Canadian publishing. The case studies are augmented with letters, photographs, multimedia, and other materials from publishers’ and authors’ archives at McMaster University Library, Queen’s University Archives, and The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (University of Toronto).

Peace & War in the 20th Century

Wheeler, G. D. and Watson, R. P., Sheet music, 1914
Molony, William O'Sullivan, Diary, 9 August 1914
Scrapbook, 1915-1918
Russell, Bertrand, Leaflet, 1966

This interactive, thematic website on Peace and War in the 20th Century has been designed to be informative, educational and engaging. Its major themes have been organized into the opposing paths of Waging Peace and Waging War. Within the themes, case studies provide context and insights. International conflicts are represented by the images and official records available in McMaster University Library’s archives. We invite you to explore Peace and War in the 20th Century.

World War, 1939-1945, German Concentration Camps and Prisons Collection

envelope, From: Kimke, Stephanie To: Jelinek, Flora in Vienna - Ravensbrück None
postcard, From: Witkowski, Johann To: Witkowski, Anna in Bromberg (Westphalia) - Sachsenhausen 5 January 1941
lettercard, From: Drag, Anton To: Drong (or Drag), Franz - Sachsenhausen 6 September 1942
lettercard, From: Witkowski, Johann To: Witkowska, Anna in Bromberg (Westphalia) - Sachsenhausen 15 February 1942

World War, 1939-1945, German Concentration Camps and Prisons Collection. The collection has correspondences available from these camps: Arbeitsdorf, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Dondanen, Dora, Fallersleben, Floßenürg, Groß-Rosen, Gusen, Herzogenbusch, Janowska, Jungfernhof, Kaiserwalk, Kauen, Klooga, Kurtenhof, Lemberg, Lublin, Majdanek, Mauthausen, Mittelbau, Natzweiler, Neuengamme, Niederhagen, Plaszow, Ravenbrück, Riga, Sachsenhausen, Salapils, Sangerhausen, Struthof, Stuttof, Torgau, Vaivara, Vught, Warschau, and Wewelsberg.

Digital Russell

Principal navigations, voyages, traffiques & discoveries of the English nation made by sea or overland to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compass of these 1600 years / by Richard Hakluyt ; with an introduction
Gryll Grange / T. Love Peacock ; edited by Richard Garnett.
The spoken word : a selection from twenty-five years of "The Listener" / chosen and introduced by Richard Church.
Novels of Jane Austen : in ten volumes / edited by R. Brimley Johnson.

McMaster University is home to the scholarly study of Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), British philosopher, logician, essayist, and renowned peace advocate. The Bertrand Russell Archives came to McMaster Library in 1968, where they are in the Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections. Russell's library is part of the Russell Archives, along with his correspondence, manuscripts, tapes, films, photographs, medals and permanently displayed writing desk.