Historical Perspectives on Canadian Publishing

Call my people home / by Dorothy Livesay

Spring publications, 1927 / Cassell & Company Limited

Letter from [Hugh Eayrs] (Macmillan Co. of Canada) to Irene Baird, 13 November 1939, re censorship of Waste Heritage

Spring publications, 1927 / George H. Doran Company (Canada) Limited

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

Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, No. 37, Poster, [1914-1918]

Combined Universities Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (Canada), Leaflet, [1961?]

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

lettercard, From: Megoeuil, M To: Madame Megoeuil, M.H. - [field_prison_camp-formatted] Mar. 22 1943

letter, From: Wrobel, Stefania and Fryda To: Wrobel, Franz - Sachsenhausen 18 December 1943

letter, From: Svoboda, Pravoslav To: Svoboda, Marie (mother of prisoner) or his children , all in Turnau in Czechoslovakia. - Buchenwald 4 July 1943

letter, From: Unknown person in Dirskau To: Gabis, Joseph - Buchenwald 8 June 1944

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

Works of Jeremy Bentham / published under the superintendence of his executor, John Bowring.

Home life with Herbert Spencer / By Two.

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.