Historical Perspectives on Canadian Publishing

Les éditions Guernica : livres français, 1978-1989

The Macmillans in Canada present the new Macmillan books : 45th season, Autumn and Winter 1928 / Macmillan Company of Canada

West to the setting sun / by Harvey Chalmers

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. 65 [?], Poster, [1914-1915?]

Clark, Ada Mary and Sloan, T. Reg, Sheet music, 1940

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: Bernu, Auguste To: Madame Bernu, Auguste (his wife) - [field_prison_camp-formatted] Sep. 04 1944

lettercard, From: Prunis, Pierre To: Madame Mme Prunis, Marcelle - [field_prison_camp-formatted] Feb. 27 1944

letter, From: Kasakova, Marie from Kladino To: Kasak, Karel - Dachau 23 January 1942

lettercard, From: Prunis, Pierre To: Madame Mme Prunis, Marcelle - [field_prison_camp-formatted] Aug. 02 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

The spirit of liberty: papers and addresses of Learned Hand / collected, and with an introduction and notes, by Irving Dilliard ; with a foreword for the British edition by Learned Hand.

Treatise concerning heaven and hell : and of the wonderful things therein / as seen and heard by the honourable and learned Emanuel Swedenborg.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Werke : Vollständige Ausg. durch einen Verein von Freunden des Verewigten: D. Ph. Marheineke ... [et al.]

Diary of Samuel Pepys : M.A.F.R.S., Clerk of the Acts and secretary to the Admiralty / for the first time fully transcribed from the shorthand manuscript in the Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge, by the Rev. Mynors Bright, M.A., late Fellow a

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.