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Updated August 2008
What's New at the Rockefeller Library?
August 2008
The
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 1898 - 2004, is now online on
JSTOR and accessible from all Colonial Williamsburg computers. See the Journal
Finder for a list of the Library's paper and electronic journals.
July 2008
Burney
Collection of 17th and 18th Century Newspapers
The Reverend Charles Burney (1757 - 1817) collected 17th and 18th century English
news media. The 700 or so bound volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets were
published mostly in London, however there are also some English provincial,
Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe
and India. Find this new database listed on the Subscription Database Links
dropdown menu on the library welcome page or
on the Online Resources page.
June 2008
Special Collections offers new New
Acquisitions, samples of recently acquired manuscripts that include a 1791
appraisal of the personal property of Williamsburg apothecary and mayor (1775),
Dr. William Pasteur and a 1779 letter from loyalist George Fairfax writing from
England and giving his wife's nephew, George Nicholas, power of attorney.
The indexes to the Colonial Williamsburg Interpreter (through Spring
2008), the Colonial Williamsburg Journal (through Spring 2008), and
Country Life (through April 2008) have been updated. See the Finding
Aids and Indexes to link to them.
March 2008
Use this shortcut to Internet sites on the study of eighteenth-century cooking
and dining (especially here in Williamsburg) with our newest webography on Foodways.
Political maneuvering and discussions in the 1760s set the stage for the American
Revolution. Among the publications that Special Collections has recently acquired
are several publications from this debate:
Anno Regni Georgii III . . . An Act for Granting and Applying certain
Stamp Duties (London: Mark Baskett, 1765) q was the infamous
law levied tax on all legal and commercial papers, pamphlets, newspapers,
almanacs, cards, and dice. Immediate colonial outrage caused its repeal in
the following year, but the bitterness lingered and, coupled with the subsequent
Intolerable Acts and Townshend Acts, engendered the grievances described
in the Declaration of Independence.
William Greatrakes' An Application of some General Political Rules
to the Present State of Great-Britain, Ireland and America in a Letter to the
Right Honourable Earl Temple (London: J. Almon, 1766) addresses
Temple, brother-in-law and political ally of William Pitt, concerning rights
of colonial citizens and traces the rights of colonies in the ancient world.
He argues that American colonists are by right and inheritance British and
have every claim to the care and regard of the mother country.
Read the complete list on Special
Collections' New Acquisitions page.
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