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The Annual Register 1758-2000 The Annual Register 1758-2000 is an invaluable year-by-year record of world events from James Cook's landing on the shores of Australia to the impeachment of Bill

2 The Annual Register The Annual Register is an invaluable year-by-year record of world events from James Cook's landing on the shores of Australia to the impeachment of Bill Clinton. This classic reference work provides historians and students with information on the major and minor events of the last 242 years, with historical context and perspective and with a mass of biographical information. Now, the new electronic version of The Annual Register transforms this collection of 242 printed volumes into a vast database of historical information. It enables you to search in any or all volumes at the same time and to search for words in the text itself as well as in the index. You can immediately find all references to a person, country or event. It is a goldmine of material for the student, the teacher and the researcher. The state of the Thames and the Adjournment of Parliament, 1858

It reveals the attitudes of contemporary British observers to events in the rest of the world, including colonisation, trade, rebellion and war in Europe, Asia and America.

3 An essential research tool The Annual Register is highly readable and very accessible to all history students. It contains a wealth of information on the people who made history in the form of biographies, obituaries and news reports. It reveals the attitudes of contemporary British observers to events in the rest of the world, including colonisation, trade, rebellion and war in Europe, Asia and America. For example, The Annual Register includes one of the best contemporary accounts of the American Revolution available. The Annual Register not only gives you the big picture, it also provides a wealth of small but significant detail - the weather conditions at the time, dates of public holidays, accounts of celebrity weddings. A student or researcher looking into early ecological disasters would learn that in the summer of 1858 the stench from the polluted River Thames was so foul it sent MPs running from the Houses of Parliament with handkerchiefs over their noses. The Annual Register offers a record of what people were interested in and how they perceived events at the time. It provides the testimony of the contemporary witness unaltered by the intervening views of historians. The Annual Register The only electronic edition of this classic reference work and historical source A unique insight into contemporary reactions to historical events The complete picture, from politics to weather, society to the arts A rich source of key primary material - including obituaries, speeches and parliamentary debates Readable, accessible accounts - an ideal introduction for undergraduates to primary source material Search every word of over 145,000 pages of information and view a facsimile of the printed page General Robert Edmund Lee, Commander-in-Chief of the Confederate army

The printed edition of The Annual Register consists of 242 volumes, each volume containing an average of 600 pages A complete set of The Annual Register occupies over 10m of shelf

the text of any article, list or table Using The Annual Register The Annual Register 1758-2000 contains the complete scanned images of the printed volumes together with the tables of

You can go from the table of contents to a selected year or search the indexes for the entire collection and link to relevant page images.

4 The printed edition of The Annual Register consists of 242 volumes, each volume containing an average of 600 pages A complete set of The Annual Register occupies over 10m of shelf space The electronic version contains images of all the 145,000 pages of The Annual Register and gives you access to them from the tables of contents and indexes, and from any word in the text of any article, list or table Using The Annual Register The Annual Register contains the complete scanned images of the printed volumes together with the tables of contents and the index. These pages have been scanned so that you can not only view the image but you can also choose to search the complete text. You can go from the table of contents to a selected year or search the indexes for the entire collection and link to relevant page images. When viewing the scanned pages you can browse backwards and forwards through the pages just as you would with the printed volumes. Easy access to The Annual Register through the Quick Search screen: enter an index term and/or a date and submit your search. Hitler s End

volumes. You can even search for variant spellings or related meanings.

5 The Power Search offers you an expanded range of search features. Not only can you search the Annual Register s Index, but you can also search a machine-readable file of the full text for any word or phrase anywhere in the printed volumes. You can even search for variant spellings or related meanings. For example, selecting the variant spellings option will enable you to find entries for both Balaklava and Balaclava regardless of which spelling is entered. American War of Independence, The Burning of New York, 1776 The Marriage of Victoria and Prince Albert at St James s Palace, 1840 Accounts of the Duke of Wellington and Napoleon I at the Battle of Waterloo, 1815

6 Who will use the resource? The Annual Register is a key primary resource for all libraries which support the teaching and study of British and world history, from specialist history and university libraries to public and college libraries. The online version will enable many libraries to offer the complete collection for the first time. The Annual Register is a resource that can be used by historians at all levels, from senior researchers to university teachers, undergraduates and school students. Access to The Annual Register is an ideal introduction to using primary source material because it is comprehensive, simple to navigate, and easily digestible. Students can develop their research skills by comparing the accepted opinion of the time with current historical interpretations and charting the changing political bias of The Annual Register. Researchers will use it for quick and easy access to the wealth of detail it provides on historical events and periods. The Fall of Mussolini, July 1943 The assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia

American Apollo moon landing, 1969 History Online The Annual Register forms part of a new series of primary research materials and key reference resources for the study of history published by

7 American Apollo moon landing, 1969 History Online The Annual Register forms part of a new series of primary research materials and key reference resources for the study of history published by Chadwyck-Healey in its new service History Online. History Online will bring both rare and heavily-used British and world history resources to the desktops of academics, librarians, teachers and students. For further details, please visit

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