Rare Books

Recent Acquisition: The Illustrated Family Journal

13 January 2012News, Rare Books, Recent acquisitionsgenre, Illustrated Family Journal, illustration, periodicals, popular literature, reading, serial, serialized fictionAnna St.Onge

Here is a recent aquisition to York University's Special Collections: a bound volume of The Illustrated Family Journal from 1845.
Featuring numerous engraved illustrations and serialized stories to be read aloud in communal settings, The Illustrated Family Journal is a good example of popular literary periodicals sold for general consumption by the middle class.
This volume of 21 issues [...]

Recent Acquistion: Historical studies of Roma Travellers in Britain

9 January 2012News, Rare Books, Recent acquisitionsadvocacy, England, George Borrow, gypsy, Irish Travellers, itinerancy, itinerant, James Crabb, John Sampson, Nineteenth century, Roma, Romani, social reform, Southampton, Traveller, WelshAnna St.Onge

Here is a recent aquisition to York University's Special Collections: a 1831 publication by James Crabb regarding the Roma and Traveller communities of Britain. The Gipsies' advocate is an excellent example of a body of literature dedicated to the 'problem' of itinerant groups in nineteenth century Britain and efforts to reintegrate these communities into [...]

Recent Acquisitions: Industrial Britain and reform movements

6 January 2012News, Rare Books, Recent acquisitionseducation reform, England, housing reform, Industrial Revolution, social housing, social reform, textiles, urban poor, working classAnna St.Onge

Here are a selection of recent acquisitions to York University's Special Collections related to Industrial Britain and social reform movements.
Octavia Hill's Homes of the London Poor is a reprint of a series of articles originally published in the Fortnightly review and Macmillan's magazine. Published in 1875 by Macmillan, Hill's observations of the living environment of London's [...]

Recent Acquisition: "Working Man"

16 September 2011Rare Booksengraving, illustration, industry, labour, late Victorian, metal work, Rare Books, Vitorian, working class, Working ManAnna St.Onge

We recently acquired a bound volume of issues of the late Victorian periodical, The Working Man: A Weekly Record of Social Progress and Industry from 1886, featuring a wealth of detailed illustrations.
The call number for this item is 12449 and be viewed at the Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections. For the catalogue record, see [...]

Special Collections Highlight : Hymnal Collection

29 August 2011Rare BooksHymnals, music, Rare Books, religious musicAnna St.Onge

Through the Internet Archive, a selection of items from our collection of early 19th and 20th Century hymnals from the Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections have been digitized.
A listing of the 23 digitized items can be found here: http://bit.ly/lxcZun.
A full listing of the over 100 items in this collection can be found here: http://bit.ly/js4DnY
One [...]

Barbara Godard Memorial 10 May 2011

9 May 2011Collectors, Exhibits, News, Personal papers, Rare Books, Recent acquisitionsarchives, Barbara Godard, English Department, Feminism, Feminist theory, library, memorial, narratology, obituary, personal papers, semiotics, Tessera, women's studies, York UniversityAnna St.Onge

Barbara Thompson Godard (1941-2010) was Professor of English, French, Social and Political Thought, and Women's Studies at York University, where she also held the Avi Bennett Historica Chair in Canadian Literature.

With a B.A. from the University of Toronto and an M.A. from l'Université de Montréal, Dr. Godard completed her doctorate at l'Université de Bordeaux [...]