Historical Perspectives on Canadian Publishing

Toronto Small Press Book Fair, Spring 1992
Behind the arras : a book of the unseen / with designs by T. B. Meteyard
Toronto Small Press Book Fair, 30 April & 1 May, 1994
Call my people home / by Dorothy Livesay

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

Poster, [September 1918]
Aldwinckle, Eric, Letter, 21 June 1943
Malleson, Constance [aka O'Niel, Colette], Letter, 5 December 1939
Manteuffel, Poster, 20 September 1914

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

[field_source-formatted], From: Radikowski, Vladimir To: Radikowska, Aniis in Prague - Floßenürg 14 January 1945
lettercard, From: Wrobel, Franz To: Wrobel, Stefania in Teschen - Sachsenhausen 5 November 1944
, From: Wife of prisoner in Weisental and Swarzenau To: Kolodziejski, Roman - Mauthausen 1941-1942
lettercard, From: Hebel, Alfons To: unknown - Stutthof 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

Absurdities of immaterialism [and pamphlets by various authors / compiled by John Russell Amberley]
Report on the Contagious Diseases Act to the civil population [and pamphlets by various authors / compiled by John Russell Amberley]
The virtues needed for freedom : a summary of western anthropology / by F. Creedy.
Thucydides / translated into English, to which is prefixed an essay on inscriptions and a note on the geography of Thucydides by Benjamin Jowett.

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.