Collection Map for Anthropology and Cultural Geography
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British Library Online Gallery
Food Stories
The Food Stories interactive, designed primarily for KS3 and KS4 citizenship and geography students, traces the amazing changes that have taken place in the UK's food culture over the last century. Play with colourful animations and listen to audio interviews from the British Library Sound Archive to investigate the ways in which food relates to identity, cultural diversity, the environment, technology, farming, shopping, travel and much more... Click on the link above to explore.
This page explains what the subject of human geography covers, gives an overview of the material the British Library holds for this subject, and advice on how you can find and use it . It also gives details of current activities for developing the collections for this subject. Geography is the study of the earth’s landscapes, peoples, places and environments and is unique in bridging the social sciences (human geography) with the natural sciences (physical geography). Human geography is that part of geography that focuses on the spatial organisation of human activity and its relations with the physical environment.
Human geography
International Organizations (Online Resources)
Except where stated, titles listed here are only available within the Library - access from outside the Library is not available for licensing reasons. If you do not find the resource you are looking for, see the Library's complete listing of electronic resources in the British Library London Reading Rooms. ADB is a multilateral development finance institution dedicated to reducing poverty in Asia and the Pacific founded in 1966. Site includes research reports in full text and extensive statistical data. Founded in 1949, the Council of Europe seeks to develop throughout its 47 member states common and democratic principles based on the European Convention on Human Rights and other reference texts on the protection of individuals.
Endangered Archives Programme
Welcome to the Endangered Archives Programme Unless action is taken now, much of mankind’s documentary heritage may vanish - discarded as no longer of relevance or left to deteriorate beyond recovery. This website explains what the Endangered Archives Programme is, and how it can help. Grants may be awarded to individual researchers to identify collections that can be preserved for fruitful use. The original archives will be transferred to a safe archival home in their country of origin, while copies will be deposited at the British Library for use by scholars worldwide.The copyright fee will be displayed as ‘Rights’ in the ‘Details’ section of the item you search. Where CLAX (copyright licensing agency excluded) or ‘British Library Not Licensed to Copy’ appears, our license does not permit us to supply a copyright fee paid copy. However, CLAX items are available to account holders via our loan service and through the Library Privilege copy service, for non commercial research purposes, to eligible UK organisations.
Current Serials Received
Indian Office Materials
The main focus of the catalogues is on the countries of South Asia, although there are also considerable holdings relevant to other parts of Asia and the Middle East. These catalogues are currently being updated. As a result, the ALL IMAGES search will not contain any new or updated cataloguing until further notice. See changes page for more details.
With Search our Catalogue Archives and Manuscripts you will be able to search and view the details of the Library's archive and manuscript collections together in one catalogue for the first time. Currently we are migrating existing archive and manuscript catalogues to it and hope to have this completed in the spring of 2012, see further details . In the meantime users should continue to use the Library's existing archive and manuscript catalogues as well. To search the Library's other collections of books, journals, newspapers, conferences, maps, scores, electronic resources, sound archive items etc., you should use Explore the British Library.
Manuscripts (Primo Catalogue)
This catalogue has now been migrated to the Library’s new integrated archives and manuscripts system and its records can now be searched online via Search our Catalogue: Archive and Manuscripts alongside the records of the Library’s other archive and manuscript collections. This catalogue will be finally switched off at the end of September 2012. Use this website to search the main catalogues of the British Library's collection of Western manuscripts, covering handwritten documents of all kinds from pre-Christian, Classical, medieval and modern times.
Manuscripts (Earlier Catalogue)
Catalogue of Photographically Illustrated Books
For information on the British Library's Jerwood Photography Project and a selection of images from the Library's photograph collections, go to the Online Gallery - historic photographs pages.The photograph catalogues provide a detailed searchable database for locating photographs, photographically-illustrated books and texts relating to photography held in all departments of the British Library. Please note that the catalogue is a work in progress and represents the results of a three-year project generously funded by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation . The catalogue is updated on an ongoing basis and new material will regularly become available online. For an overview and selection of images from the British Library’s photograph collections, please visit the Historic Photographs feature .
Catalogue of Photographs
UK Web Archive
Explore the Special Collections Special Collections are groups of websites brought together on a particular theme by librarians, curators and other specialists, often working in collaboration with key organisations in the field. They can be events-based (e.g The Olympic & Paralympic Games 2012), topical (e.g. The Credit Crunch Collection) or subject-oriented (e.g. The British Countryside Collections).Remote Eresources is a pilot service, providing access to three historical Readex newspaper collections. It allows St Pancras registered readers , with a valid photographic pass, to access remotely (where licensing and technology permit) electronic resources normally only available in the British Library's reading rooms.
Electronic Databases
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