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The Library is pleased to launch the following database\/module:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n With its debut in 1842, the Illustrated London News<\/em> became the world’s first fully illustrated weekly newspaper, marking a revolution in journalism and news reporting. The publication presented a vivid picture of British and world events (including news of war, disaster, ceremonies, the arts, and science) with coverage in the first issue ranging from the Great Fire of Hamburg to Queen Victoria’s fancy dress ball at Buckingham Palace. <\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n 2. China and the Modern World : Hong Kong, Britain and China 1841\u20131951 <\/em> <\/a> China and the Modern World: Hong Kong, Britain and China 1841\u20131951 <\/em> presents a collection of British government documents on colonial Hong Kong, spanning a period of over a century. Digitized from the British Colonial Office records grouped under the CO 129 Series titled \u201cWar and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Hong Kong, Original Correspondence,\u201d the collection consists of despatches and correspondence between the governors of Hong Kong and the Colonial Office, as well as letters and telegrams of other government departments and organizations such as the Foreign Office, Home Office, and War Offices. In the form of bound volumes, these records were arranged chronologically till 1926 when arrangement by subject files was introduced. Each volume comes with a contents list, or a pr\u00e9cis of each letter giving the name of correspondent, date of letter and subject matter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The library has other databases available for HKSYU users, further information can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Library is pleased to launch the following database\/module: 1. The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003 With its debut in 1842, the Illustrated London News became the world’s first fully illustrated weekly newspaper, marking a revolution in journalism and news reporting. The publication presented a vivid picture of British and world events (including news … Continue reading “New database\/module”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.hksyu.edu\/lib\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.hksyu.edu\/lib\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.hksyu.edu\/lib\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.hksyu.edu\/lib\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.hksyu.edu\/lib\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7335"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/library.hksyu.edu\/lib\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7343,"href":"https:\/\/library.hksyu.edu\/lib\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7335\/revisions\/7343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.hksyu.edu\/lib\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.hksyu.edu\/lib\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.hksyu.edu\/lib\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
New module ” Hong Kong, Britain and China 1841-1951 ” is purchased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hong Kong Shue Yan University Library<\/p>\n\n\n
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