Historical Perspectives on Canadian Publishing

Spring 1927 / publications of Dodd, Mead and Company (Canada) Limited

Photo album: "A Little Souvenir of 'Green Gables' and 'Avonlea'" [n.d.] with accompanying note from Jack McClelland

The Canadian Chautauqua summer school of Canadian literature, 6th to 12th July 1926

[Scrapbook of printer's proofs produced by the Bulletin job printing office, Collingwood, Ontario], 1886 - 1905

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

Collège des Bourgmestre et Echevins, Poster, 11 November 1918

Soviet Peace Committee, Leaflet, October 1983

Parliamentary War Savings Committee, Poster, July 1915

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

letter, From: Stefaniszyn, Josefa To: Unknown - Ravensbrück January 1943

[field_source-formatted], From: Pietrzycki, Roman To: Pietrzycka, Irena - Dachau 18 March 1945

postcard, From: Walas, Marian To: Walas, Herr Joseph in Wieliczka (Pologne) - Groß-Rosen 3 December 1944

postcard, From: His wife in Paris To: Klemento (?), Albert - [field_prison_camp-formatted] September 9, 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

History of modern Europe /by C. A. Fyffe.

Absurdities of immaterialism [and pamphlets by various authors / compiled by John Russell Amberley]

Buch Henoch / uebersetzt und erklärt von A. Dillmann.

The warfare state / Fred J. Cook ; with a foreword by Bertrand Russell.

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.