Historical Perspectives on Canadian Publishing

Sample of the proposed title page for the Canadian edition of In the Village of Viger, [1945?]

Memo from Hugh Kane (Macmillan Canada) to Donald Sutherland et al. (Macmillan Canada), 12 March 1971, re Davies's Fifth Business

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

Aldwinckle, Eric, Letter, 23 December [1943]

Grant, Freddy and Walker, Harold, Sheet music, 1943

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

postcard, From: Svoboda, Pravoslav To: Svoboda, Marie (mother of prisoner) or his children , all in Turnau in Czechoslovakia. - Buchenwald 14 January 1945

letter, From: Kasakova, Marie from Kladino To: Kasak, Karel - Dachau 24 May 1942

postcard, From: Korolczuk, Stanislaus To: Jakubiak, Amela in Warsaw - Auschwitz 31 January 1943

letter, From: Juliette To: Mon cher Bury - [field_prison_camp-formatted] No Date

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

Butler's lives of the saints / edited, rev., and supplemented by Herbert Thurston and Donald Attwater.

Cobden-Sanderson, T. J. (Thomas James), 1840-1922., , 1914, 1914, 1914, 1913, 1911 and [1911];

Report of a Meeting of the London National Society for women's suffrage, held at the Hanover Square Rooms, on Sunday, March 26th, 1870 [and pamphlets by various authors / compiled by John Russell Amberley]

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.