October 9, 2009 – 7:18 am
nbsp;http://www.vangoghletters.org/vg/index.h…
While Vincent van Gogh has become almost as famed for his troubled mind as for his paintings, a new exhibition in the Van Gogh Museum seeks to remind us there was more method than madness to his style.
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Seeing the letters next to the paintings underlines Van Gogh’s professionalism, which is sometimes overlooked amid spectacular biographical [...]
October 8, 2009 – 12:30 pm
nbsp;http://www.corral.org.uk/
What are we doing?
CORRAL is an imaging and digitising project funded by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) whose website can be found at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/. The project began on 1st October 2008 and is funded until 30th September 2009 during this time its principal objective is to image ship’s logbooks of particular historic and scientific value, and [...]
October 6, 2009 – 7:54 am
nbsp;http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) has some tremendous online resources, and the recent addition of the Holocaust Encyclopedia continues in this tradition. The interactive Encyclopedia includes hundreds of articles that cover topics like the Third Reich, refugees, ghettos, and the liberation of Nazi camps. Each entry contains hypertext links to other entries and [...]
October 6, 2009 – 7:48 am
nbsp;http://www.historyandpolicy.org/index.ht…
It’s an old saw that those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it, but the History & Policy group takes this maxim very seriously. The group represents a collaboration between the University of Cambridge, The Institute of Historical Research, and The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The purpose of the group [...]
October 6, 2009 – 7:23 am
nbsp;http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn176/ir…
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September 24, 2009 – 11:26 am
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 7:20 AM
Posted by Brandon Badger, Product Manager
When I was a kid I used to enjoy thumbing through a collection of older magazines that my grandfather had at his house. I remember flipping through the pages and feeling as though I was peeking through a window into life from decades past. [...]
September 18, 2009 – 2:18 pm
nbsp;http://www.intute.ac.uk/blog/2009/09/17/…
Intute has recently launched five quick guides for historians wanting to make the most of the Web for research. Each of the guides is introduced by an academic expert in their field and features links to the best websites for new researchers and those seeking primary sources.
September 16, 2009 – 7:42 am
nbsp;http://www.stoa.org/sol/
The Suda is a massive 10th century Byzantine Greek historical encyclopedia of the ancient Mediterranean world, derived from the scholia to critical editions of canonical works and from compilations by yet earlier authors. The purpose of the Suda On Line is to open up this stronghold of information by means of a freely accessible, keyword-searchable, [...]
September 16, 2009 – 7:41 am
http://www.ncri-onix.org.uk/
The NCRI Oncology Information Exchange (ONIX) was created to provide the cancer research community with a mechanism to easily discover and share information on the latest developments in the field. This will be achieved by bringing together biomedical data, analytical tools, research publications and new research technology to create an information network that will provide [...]
September 14, 2009 – 7:56 am
nbsp;http://www.conncoll.edu/academics/depart…
Learning about the basics of human physiology can be important for pre-med students and others with an interest in how the various systems of the human body function and interact. This fine resource from Connecticut College can be used in a variety of settings, and the illustrative animations here are divided into sections that include [...]
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