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Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Library Services has launched the first phase of 'Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Archives', an online database of archive holdings for Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Special Collections and the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES).Ìý

The database features catalogues and lists of archive and manuscript holdings from Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Special Collections and Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø SSEES and is searchable by a variety of options, including date range, personal names and subject terms indexes. The archive and manuscript collections cover a wide range of subject areas and fields of study, including:

• papers of former professors such as Sir William Ramsay, discoverer of the inert gases, 1894-1898;Ìý SirÌý Ambrose Fleming, inventor of the thermionic valve, 1904; Karl Pearson, mathematician and biologist; JBS Haldane, scientist;Ìý Sir Victor Horsley, surgeon;Ìý and Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, chemist and crystallographer

• letters and manuscripts of writers, poets, painters and politicians such as the letters of Emile Zola, Arnold Bennett's manuscripts, and the letters of Dante Rossetti. Ìý

• Jewish collections including early manuscripts, family and other papers of eminent Anglo-Jewish figures such as Moses Gaster and Alexander Altmann.

Major highlights of the collection include the George Orwell Archive, containing Orwell's notebooks and diaries; the papers of the scientist Sir Francis Galton; and political papers ofÌý Hugh Gaitskell, Leader of the Labour Party, 1955-1963.

Further catalogues, lists and links to digital images will be added to 'Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Archives' throughout the year.

To access the catalogue and for more information, follow the links at the top of the page.

Images

Top: alpaca wool sorting in Latin America, twentieth century.

Right: Illuminated manuscript calendar for 1471, showing the occupations for each month. March shows hoeing the ground.

Left: 'Inflammation of the Pia Mater of the Brain', watercolour drawing by Sir Robert Carswell, 1827-1838.