Historical Perspectives on Canadian Publishing

The handmaid's tale / Margaret Atwood
Knihy 1980-1981 [Sixty Eight Publishers' catalogue]
PMA spring books, 1978 / Peter Martin Associates
Spring publications, 1927 / McClelland & Stewart, Limited

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

Wakefield, C.C., Lord Mayor of London, Poster, January 1916
Harkness, Robert, Sheet music, 1914
Ehrlich, Sam (Lyrics) ; Conrao, Con (Music), Sheet music, 1918
Abbott, Jane, Diary, 13-15 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

lettercard, From: Liwski, Georg  To: unknown - Sachsenhausen 2 March 1942
lettercard, From: Megoeuil, M  To: Madame Megoeuil, M.H. - [field_prison_camp-formatted] Nov. 02 1944
[field_source-formatted], From:  Hanzl, Celestyn To: Hanzlova, Blaza in Prague  - Buchenwald 4 March 1945
letter, From: Bak, Stefan To: To his mother Orlowski, Judwike in Bromberg (country ?) - Gusen 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

English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury / now first collected and edited by Sir William Molesworth, Bart.
Dictionnaire historique et critique / de Pierre Bayle.
Mémoires et correspondance de Duplessis-Mornay : pour servir à l'histoire de la réformation et des guerres civiles et religieuses en France, sous les règnes de Charles IX, de Hnri III, de Henri IV et de Louis XIII, depuis l'an 1571 jusqu'en 1623.
Hymns ancient and modern : for use in the services of the church, with accompanying tunes / compiled and arranged under the musical editorship of William Henry Monk.

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.