Historical Perspectives on Canadian Publishing

"Call My People Home" / Dorothy Livesay, with annotations
The poems of Archibald Lampman / edited with a memoir by Duncan Campbell Scott
Toronto Saturday night, Xmas 1896
54-40 or fight! Jackdaw C-28 / written and compiled by Marjorie Wilkins Campbell

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

Brittain, Vera, Diary, 13-14 July 1915
Brittain, Vera, Letter, 8 November 1915
Weber, A. Paul, Gouache, 1918
Sulle, Poster, 1986

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: Wrobel, Stefania and Fryda To: Wrobel, Franz - Sachsenhausen 18 October 1944
receipt, From: Unknown To: Stejskal, Frantisek - Mauthausen Various
letter, From: Matejko, Gustaw To: Matejko, Franciszka. In Terespolam am Bug in Poland - Auschwitz 20 February 1944
letter, From: Lienske, Heinrich To: Lienske, Helene in Konigshütte. - Auschwitz 12 August 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

Rob Roy / by Sir Walter Scott
The utmost island / by Henry Myers.
Maid Marian / T. Love Peacock ; edited by Richard Garnett.
Hesperides : & Noble numbers / Robert Herrick ; edited by Alfred Pollard, with a preface by A.C. Swinburne.

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.