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Professor, Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, Duke University
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Kaplanoff Librarian for American History and American Studies, Yale University
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Metropolitan Library System, Oklahoma City
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Shenxiao Tong
Liaison Librarian for the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh
"The British Foreign Office Confidential Print have long been recognised as an extraordinary valuable source for the study of nineteenth and early twentieth century history; a resource that no other national archive can match. At present sets of these documents (one complete, one almost complete and the others very patchy) are only available in a small number of repositories although a small selection has been made available in facsimile. This Adam Matthew initiative will make the complete set universally available for the very first time and can only enhance their usefulness."
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Under Librarian, Cambridge University Library
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Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Oxford
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Harvard University and Library Journal e-Reviewer
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University of Sydney
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Old Dominion University
"This collection of primary and secondary sources on the history of the Grand Tour has no rivals in terms of its completeness or accessibility. It is based on a survey of all the major international archives and libraries and is thus a must for all institutions that deal with any aspect of cultural history of the humanities."
Professor Edward Chaney
Southampton Solent University
"Few collections provide the depth and range of insights as the Everett D. Graff Collection at the Newberry Library. For students and scholars interested in pursuing this 'most imagined' region of the United States, there are few better places to begin."
Professor Ned Blackhawk
University of Wisconsin, Madison
"This collection makes a wide array of primary resources available for scholars and students working in many different countries and contexts. The Adam Matthew collection of Berg manuscript materials will be a stimulus to a new generation of scholarship."
Dr Marjorie Stone
Dalhousie University
"This is a rich resource for anyone interested in Victorian popular culture and the history of entertainment."
Professor Peter Otto
University of Melbourne
"I looked at the reproductions and they were wonderful. It's an incomparable resource."
Professor Barbara Harris
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Engaging with these materials is a deeply enriching experience."
Professor Nigel Smith
Princeton University
"This new project will be critical for anyone seriously working on English periodical literature during the long eighteenth century."
Professor James Sack
University of Illinois at Chicago
"The papers will transform the way we look at the early period."
Professor Karen Ordahm Kupperman
New York University
"Newspapers are particularly valuable as a teaching tool - this portal, in its range and variety, is a most important guide to the culture of print of the period."
Professor James Black
University of Exeter
"An irreplaceable file of primary sources for the study of London life, popular culture and entertainment in nineteenth century England."
Professor Martha Vicinus
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
"Original manuscripts of travel are a priceless resource for understanding medieval attitudes."
Professor M. Alison Stones
University of Pittsburgh
"As sources for historical explication and exploration, it is hard to do better than to turn to these collections of family letters."
Professor Joel Rosenthal
Stonybrook University
"This resource will do much to raise international awareness and understanding of the human costs of one of the most powerful forces to have shaped th modern world."
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University of Hull
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Director, Centre for South Asian Studies, Edinburgh University
"A boon for researchers and a very valuable teaching aid."
Professor Alexander C. Byrd
Rice University
"We cannot understand the contemporary world unless we understand China, and we cannot understand contemporary China unless we understand its past."
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University of Bristol
"A unique resource for students and scholars alike. Constantly lively and inventive, this is the place where the study of everyday life begins."
Dr Ben Highmore
University of Sussex
"Of interest not only to scholars of East Asia but also to Americanists concerned with their nation's early contacts with the Far East."
Professor Robert Rosenstone
California Institute of Technology
"A truly remarkable archive: the most intense and long-term attempt to char mass/popular opinion in any country that I know of."
Professor James Epstein
Vanderbilt University
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Arizona State University, Tempe
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Burroughs Chair of Southern History, Coastal Carolina University
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Research Librarian, Harvard University
"This is a wonderful resource that provides a wealth of material dealing with past popular media experiences, and is valuable for research and teaching purposes. During a time when the inter- and transdisciplinary are important tools of analysis, the Victorian Popular Culture Portal offers an assorted tapestry of examples that encourage the discovery and examination of the rich connections that exist between past and present forms of popular media."
Professor Angela Ndalianis
University of Melbourne
“This database can be a superb research and teaching device. The visual material is wonderful, and the interactive maps are some of the best ones in the field of Chinese history that I have see thus far. In addition, the English translations of many texts will be extremely helpful to students. With this database, undergraduate students will be able to produce a kind of research papers, which they could not have possible written before.”
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Department of History, Duke University
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Tina Bebbington
Information Services Librarian, University of Victoria, Canada
"Medieval Travel Writing Online is an excellent creation and should open up the subject of medieval travel writing to academics and students alike who have shied away from the topic precisely because access to aged translations has proved prohibitive."
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Sessional Lecturer, University of London-Birckbeck
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Emma Cryer
Electronic Resources Librarian, Johns Hopkins University
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Professor Rachel O'Toole
Department of History, UC Irvine
"What an amazing resource! I am hooked, if I get anything else looked at over the next couple of weeks it will be a miracle! I thought the whole set-up was fantastic. The interface was intuitive, and beautifully designed which made it extremely easy to use as well as easy on the eyes. Being so far from Brighton it was fantastic to be able to dip into papers that I would not dream of looking at during a visit. As a result of the search facility I made a number of surprising finds that have really moved my work on. I would recommend the package to others, and indeed my friend Dr Richard Doty at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC was also hugely impressed with the eighteenth century collection that he trialled."
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Research Fellow, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor Tim Hitchcock
Associate Dean (Research), University of Hertfordshire
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Miles Taylor
Director, Institute of Historical Research, London
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Charlotte Macdonald
Department of History, University of Wellington, New Zealand
"I was running a senior level course on Literature and Empire for MA students and Phds who were just starting off on their research work. They learnt a lot from the introductory material and essays and got useful access to primary sources from exploring the wide variety of material featured in Empire Online. Its wide reach meant that English faculty from the Renaissance Period through to Victorianists and Post-Colonialist found that they could use it to good effect in teaching and for research work."
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Department of English, Syracuse University
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Charlotte Macdonald
Department of History, University of Wellington, New Zealand
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Professor Philip Harling
Department of History, University of Kentucky
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Dr Christopher E. Forth
Department of History, Australian National University
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Michigan State University