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May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month! Use #AAPIHM (or any other month!) to learn more about the #AsianAmerican #PacificIslander communities with our many resources - we could never fit all of them in 1 picture, so here's a very small selection

#AAPIHeritageMonth #AmericanStudies

A selection of books on Asian American & Pacific Islander American topics on a meadow with green grass and daisies

Find texts on & by Arthur Conan Doyle in our collection, following this link to our online catalogue: https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/SET=3/TTL=10/MAT=/NOMAT=T/REL?PPN=133425584

Happy Birthday, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle! The famous creator of #SherlockHolmes would have turned 166 today!

#BOTD #ArthurConanDoyle #ScottishWriters #VictorianLiterature #EnglishLiterature

Original photo via Wikimedia Commons (edited), part of George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress

a photograph of Arthur Conan Doyle writing, with a comical houndstooth partyhat and party blower edited in

A social & cultural #history of consumerism in 20 c Britain, Ben Highmore's "Lifestyle Revolution" tracks changes of taste & how they influenced the British class system, from #cookbooks #ads & TV shows to shops like Habitat

#CulturalStudies #BritishStudies #ConsumerCulture

https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1837638330

The book "Lifestyle Revolution" by Ben Highmore on a blue velvet chair

American civil rights activist Malcolm X was born #OTD 100 years ago!

Find a wide array on literature about #MalcolmX & his activism, incl. several #biographies - in English, German, French & in comic book form!

#BlackStudies #AmericanHistory #AmericanStudies #ComicsStudies #CivilRights #BLM

2 bookshelves filled with books on and by Malcolm X

"Otherworld" collects 9 tales from #MedievalIreland - composed over 1000 years ago in monastic libraries of #Ireland, inspiration for later 🇬🇧 & 🇫🇷 #fairytales, are retold by historian & novelist Lisa M. Bitel

https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1886557160

#IrishStudies #IrishLiterature #MedievalLiterature #folklore

Holding the book "Otherworld - Nine Tales of Wonder and Romance from Medieval Ireland" by Lisa M. Bitel in front of a tree

2 new books in our collection - today on the theme of #Ireland!
"Death in Irish #Prehistory" by Gabriel Cooney is a massive yet approachable volume with lots of illustrations & photos from 8500 years of tracing life & death in #IrishHistory - 8000 BC - 400 AD.

https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1872314457

#IrishStudies

Holding the book "Death in Irish Prehistory" by Gabriel Cooney in front of a tree

Learning about #JewishAmerican history for #JAHM ?
If you're in Germany, you can explore 'Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954', a wide-ranging digital archive, co-financed by us &
@JuedStudien
@rel_bib
@FID_Ost
@historicumnet.bsky.social

👉More info on our website: https://libaac.de/home/full-view-post/detail/News/new-nation-wide-licence-jewish-life-in-america-c1654-1954/

... or head directly to the digital collections on #JewishHistory in #America at AM Digital:
https://www.amdigital.co.uk/collection/jewish-life-in-america-c1654-1954

#AmericanStudies #AmericanHistory

FID Anglo-American Culture boosted:

Approaches to Annotation: Insights & Challenges Editing Hogg & Woolf
15 May, University of Glasgow – free

Dr Megan Coyer & Dr Annie Strausa will reflect on two major textual editing projects. What are the different challenges faced by editors annotating modernist short fiction versus short fiction (& poetry) from a late Romantic-era periodical?

@litstudies

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/approaches-to-annotation-insights-and-challenges-editing-hogg-and-woolf-tickets-1313601550599

#Scottish #literature #romanticism #modernism #JamesHogg #VirginiaWoolf #editing

FID Anglo-American Culture boosted:

Virginia Woolf’s „Mrs. Dalloway“ ist dank der Vielschichtigkeit, Brüchigkeit und Interpretationsoffenheit der darin behandelten Themen und Figuren ein zeitloser #Klassiker britischer #Literatur. In seinem #Vortag am Donnerstag, den 22. Mai blickt Dirk Schulz (Geschäftsführer des Zentrums Gender Studies @UniKoeln gemeinsam mit der Schauspielerin Maria Hartmann auf „Identität als Erwartung und Scheitern“.
Alle Infos 👉 https://blog.sbb.berlin/termin/mrsdalloway-22-5-25/

#StabiBerlin #VirginiaWoolf #Event

Links to the pictured books:

Mrs. Dalloway (annotated) https://s.gwdg.de/qT0HJw
Mrs. Dalloway's Party - short stories https://s.gwdg.de/O5wVKQ
The Hours by Michael Cunningham - 1998 tribute novel https://s.gwdg.de/0pRvov
Frances Spalding: Virginia Woolf - Art, Life and Vision https://s.gwdg.de/y0WaGv

"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself"💐
That's the famous #firstsentence of #MrsDalloway by #VirginiaWoolf
The modernist novel turns 100 years today!
You can find different editions & additional literature on Woolf in our collection (see reply for links)

#ModernistLiterature #OTD

Holding a stack of 4 books in front of a flower shop, with lots of flower bouqets (specifically peonies) in different colours in the background. The books pictured are:
Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway's Party; Michael Cunningham: The Hours; Virginia Woolf: Frances Spalding: Mrs. Dalloway; Virginia Woolf - Art, Life and Vision

FID Anglo-American Culture boosted:

A cartoon reminder that it’s probably Mother’s Day tomorrow unless you are in the UK.

Title: Just in time for Mother's Day: Classic literature with added Mums

Panel 1: Moby Dick
"Ahab! Moby! Enough of this nonsense. Apologise to each other and if you can't get along, stay apart." says Ahab's mother, standing in a little boat and looking sternly into Moby's eye, while her son sits chastened behing her.

Panel 2: Casino Royale.
"Vodka martini, shaken not stirred... And a sweet sherry for my mother."
says James Bond. His mother calls over feom their table "Just a little one."

Panel 3: The Lord of the Rings.
"You can look for your ring after you tidy your room and walk the dog, Sauron."
says Sauron's mother, holding out the dog lead to her son, who replies "Aw, mum!".

New #CfP #CallForPapers from @GASt for their 2025 #conference "It’s Time! Australia and the World at the Crossroads" in Heidelberg in October!

#AustralianStudies #Australia

submission deadline: 30 June 2025

https://australienstudien.org/de/2025/05/06/cfp-19-internationale-konferenz-der-gast/

Find both books here in our catalogue:

Bristol:
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1887649514

London:
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1904029493

(bonus pic of one of our famous Göttingen campus ducks @subugoe !)

#BlueHumanities #EnglishHistory #EconomicHistory #PostcolonialStudies #LondonHistory #MaterialCulture #History #Archaeology

A mallard swims on the artificial water course in front of SUB Göttingen

Now off to #London - this large volume, edited by John Schofield & Stephen Freeth, presents archaeological findings from London's waterfront, 1666-1800, making #history & #MaterialCulture come alive in many pictures of maps, houses & objects found

#BlueHumanities #archaeology #EnglishHistory
@subugoe

Holding John Schofield and Stephen Freeth's book "London's Waterfront and its World, 1666-1800" in front of the water course in front of SUB Göttingen. Behind the book, the round cafeteria tower of the library is visible

Fancy a dip? 🌊 Today's books share the refreshing topic of ports in #EnglishHistory

Richard Stone's 2024 monograph on #Bristol & the birth of the Atlantic #economy 1500-1700 analyses #EarlyModern trade in Britain, based on the Bristol Port Books

#History #EconomicHistory #BlueHumanities
@subugoe

Holding Richard Stone's book "Bristol and the Birth of the Atlantic Economy, 1500-1700" in front of the water course in front of SUB Göttingen

...like this #ComicsStudies book by Jochen Ecke on the "British Comic Book Invasion" of creators like #AlanMoore, #GrantMorrison & #GarthEnnis

https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=166395819X

We are still building our collection, so please tell us your wishes for anglophone comics from outside the US!

#FCBD

Today is #FreeComicBookDay #FCBD
Did you know that while our partners at the Branch Library North American Studies at the University Library, FU Berlin collect #AmericanComics SUB Göttingen has its own growing collection of anglophone #comics from outside the US & secondary texts?

#ComicsStudies

Holding Jochen Ecke's monograph "The British Comic Book Invasion" in front of a bookshelf filled with comic books

"Blessings beyond the Binary, ed. by Nora Rubel & Brett Krutzsch, looks at the 🇺🇸 TV show Transparent and analyses in 16 essays how it shows the intersections of #Jewishness, #gender & sexuality

#JAHM #GenderStudies #TVStudies #JewishStudies

https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1890631582

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