Historical Perspectives on Canadian Publishing

Notes from the underground : newsletter of the Toronto Small Press Bookfair, 1990
The book fair guide to new books, November 1937
Press release ; Garamond Press, June 1981
The Fall 1995 Toronto Small Press Fair : Victoria College, 4 November 1995

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

City Engineer's (A.R.P.) Department, Government document, 3 November 1939
Molony, William O'Sullivan , Diary, 22 July 1914
Aldwinckle, Eric, Letter, 21 June 1943
No-Conscription Fellowship, Leaflet, [1916]

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: Drag, Anton To: Drong (or Drag), Franz - Sachsenhausen 22 March 1942
[field_source-formatted], From: Ratajitsik (?), Stanislaus To: ? - Groß-Rosen 12 November 1944
letter, From: Unknown person in Dirskau To: Gabis, Joseph - Buchenwald 8 June 1944
postcard, From: Megoeuil, M To: Madame Megoeuil, M.H. - [field_prison_camp-formatted] Feb. 06 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 song of bright misery =Le poème de la misère clair : suite d'images accompagnées d'un texte explicatif et cadencé / Pol-Dives ; translated from the French by Barbara Wright ; with a preface by Stefan Themerson.
Oeuvres choisies de Voltaire / publiées avec préface, notes et variantes par Georges Bengesco.
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
The song of bright misery =Le poème de la misère clair : suite d'images accompagnées d'un texte explicatif et cadencé / Pol-Dives ; translated from the French by Barbara Wright ; with a preface by Stefan Themerson.

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.