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Selected UCL Special Collections are available within licensed electronic resources (e-resources) to support you in your studies, research and teaching.
UCL works with partners to digitise, index and publish rare books and archival documents from our Special Collections. These licensed projects vastly increase the scale and speed at which we can make our collections accessible online. The resulting online editions are commercially available but can be used by current students and employees of UCL, including honorary members of staff, for academic purposes. Please check the terms and conditions for use of e-resources.
If you are not a member of staff or student at UCL, unfortunately you will not be able to access through these links due to licensing conditions. However, your institution’s library may have purchased access. To find out search for the collection title within your library catalogue or list of e-resources:
- Wiley Digital Archives: British Association for the Advancement of Science (for Burdon-Sanderson Papers and Ramsay Papers).
- British Online Archives (Pandemics, Society, and Public Health, 1517–1925).
- Alexander Street (for Aging in the Modern World and World Events and the Media).
- Aging in the Modern World
- Part of Alexander Street’s Global Issues resource, Aging in the Modern World provides a rich, multi-media exploration of global aging complexities, offering diverse cultural perspectives, personal narratives, and scholarly insights from 1900 to 2020. Through its coverage of government approaches, societal attitudes, and key themes, it serves as an invaluable resource for understanding and addressing the challenges and opportunities associated with an aging population. UCL content focuses on rare sources on architecture, design and urban planning for an aging population, but also includes archival content and rare print.
ProviderAlexander Street is a leading global information services provider.
Alexander Street products are curated, discipline-focused, primary-source collections, websites, and streaming media for learning and research. We’re passionate about creating landmark online resources that help scholars and students discover and learn.
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- Burdon Sanderson Papers (MS ADD 179)
- Papers, correspondence and diaries of Sir John Burdon-Sanderson and also papers of his wife Lady Burdon-Sanderson. The collection contains papers, correspondence and diaries of Sir John Burdon-Sanderson and also papers of his wife Lady Burdon-Sanderson. Some of the papers include notes and drafts of lectures and addresses. There are also papers that were used for a 'Memoir' of John Burdon-Sanderson, begun by Lady Burdon-Sanderson and completed by Burdon-Sanderson's niece and nephew, Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane and John Scott Haldane (published in Oxford, 1911).
ProviderWiley Digital Archives: British Association for the Advancement of Science (Collections on the History of Science: 1830 - 1970).
The BAAS archive from Wiley Digital Archives contains an aggregation of collections from the BAAS and from archival collections related to the BAAS, contributed by various institutions across the United Kingdom.
The BAAS collection is complemented by a wealth of material drawn from ten British universities.
The aggregated university collections serve to connect the manuscripts, papers, and correspondence of some of the most important scientists of the 19th and early 20th centuries into a singular source for research.
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- Pandemics, Society, and Public Health, 1517–1925
- Charting the course and consequences of pandemics over five centuries, Pandemics, Society, and Public Health, 1517–1925 collates archival materials relating primarily to the history of the UK. The collection concentrates on four diseases that have left a significant mark upon British history: plague, cholera, smallpox, and influenza.
This collection boasts over 79,000 images, meticulously sourced from four leading UK archives: The National Archives, British Library, University College London, and London Metropolitan Archives.
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British Online Archives (BOA) is one of the UK’s leading academic publishers and online repositories.
Hosting over five million records, carefully sourced from private and public archives, such as The National Archives (UK) and British Library, BOA’s specially curated primary source collections cover over 500 years of world history. They boast extensive documentation from across the globe, providing invaluable source material for students and researchers working within a wide range of scholarly disciplines, including history, politics, sociology, and international relations. Our unique digital holdings offer insights into global historical events and trends, typically through a British lens. They serve to broaden our understanding of history, and help us to make sense of contemporary social, cultural, economic, and political landscapes.
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- Ramsay Papers
- Correspondence and papers of Sir William Ramsay and of Morris W Travers.The collection contains correspondence and papers of Sir William Ramsay and of Morris W Travers. The bound volumes contain letters to Ramsay, chronologically arranged by Travers, and copies of related printed papers. The remaining Ramsay papers are grouped according to their contents: laboratory notebooks, lecture notes, miscellaneous papers and published works. Professor Travers grouped Ramsay's published scientific papers into ten 'volumes'. Travers's own papers are divided into two main sections: firstly papers relating to his work on Ramsay, including various papers having some bearing on Ramsay's work and material concerning his arrangement of the Ramsay papers; and secondly papers relating to Travers' own career, including papers on awards and distrinctions, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous material.
ProviderWiley Digital Archives: British Association for the Advancement of Science (Collections on the History of Science: 1830 - 1970).
The BAAS archive from Wiley Digital Archives contains an aggregation of collections from the BAAS and from archival collections related to the BAAS, contributed by various institutions across the United Kingdom.
The BAAS collection is complemented by a wealth of material drawn from ten British universities.
The aggregated university collections serve to connect the manuscripts, papers, and correspondence of some of the most important scientists of the 19th and early 20th centuries into a singular source for research.
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- World Events and the Media
- Global Issues: World Events and the Media documents the challenges, and transformative shifts within journalism as reporters aim to uphold the key principles of accuracy, independence, and fairness. The collection is a scholarly resource that explores various practices in journalism: from investigative journalism to crisis and war reporting, to the impact of technological advancements on the media. This multimedia resource covers approaches to journalism that draw upon first-hand accounts, memoirs, historical accounts, videos and archival records. UCL’s Arthur Evans Archive (EVA/1) forms a key source for early regional reporting, covering Evans’ early career as a Balkans correspondent and expert in the run up to the first world war before his archaeological career took off with the discovery of the remains of Knossos in Crete.
ProviderAlexander Street is a leading global information services provider.
Alexander Street products are curated, discipline-focused, primary-source collections, websites, and streaming media for learning and research. We’re passionate about creating landmark online resources that help scholars and students discover and learn.
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