iSkills: Confidential Print and Foreign Office files: Sources for 19th and 20th century studies
The British Foreign Office was the government department responsible for the conduct of British relations with nearly all foreign states. Confidential Print and Foreign Office files were intended for circulation internally within the Foreign Office and to the monarch, the Prime Minister, the Cabinet, other government departments and diplomatic missions abroad. These files are now housed in The National Archives, UK, and have been digitised by Adam Matthew Digital on the Archives Direct cross-searchable platform.
The Archives Direct platform includes British government papers from the 19th and 20th centuries relating to Africa, Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, South East Asia, East Asia, Latin America and North America. It’s a crucial resource for the study of politics, international relations, peace and conflict studies, economics and trade, British history and global history. This session will introduce you to The National Archives and their Foreign Office and Confidential Print files, and show you how to search across them to discover sources for your studies and research.
Intended audience: Oxford students, researchers and other staff.
Date:
26 November 2024, 12:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Venue:
Online via Microsoft Teams
Speakers:
Hannah Chandler (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford),
Ben Lacey (Adam Matthew Digital)
Organising department:
Bodleian Research and Learning Support
Organiser:
Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ask/workshops#/course/OXFORDBODL/ISKILL0084
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editors:
Helen Bond,
Melanie Smith
