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Featuring newly released documents from The National Archives, UK, the latest instalment in the AM Archives Direct series, "Apartheid South Africa, module IV: Resistance, Sanctions and Reform, 1981-1988," offers an unparalleled exploration of the UK's interaction with South Africa during a pivotal era in the apartheid regime.

AM's new AV resource, sourced from Nasreen Munni Kabir's private collection, contains unedited interviews with Indian film personalities from the 'Golden Age' of Hindi cinema. With over 70 hours of footage and 130 film posters from the British Film Institute, the interviews offer unique insights into Hindi cinema and its film-making process.

AM is proud to partner with the Galt Museum & Archives on the AM Archival School for Ukraine, a pioneering initiative that seeks to unite Ukrainian archival professionals with international experts to preserve the country's cultural heritage amid ongoing conflict.

Created and launched using the powerful and intuitive AM Quartex platform, Durham County Library’s newly-published collection provides unprecedented digital access to the library’s diverse material.

AM has received the prestigious 'Best Reference' title from Library Journal for its collection, Conflict in Indochina. Judges praised the collection's "unique perspective on the broader impact of the Vietnam War [... allowing] researchers to deepen their knowledge of this tumultuous time in history."

The latest module of the flagship East India Company resource, drawn from the holdings of the British Library, spotlights the role of the influential Board of Commissioners in the administration of the East India Company and its role in India during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

AM’s newly-published resource Women’s Voices and Life Writing, 1600-1968 brings together diaries and oral histories from regional and national archives across England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales to enable students and researchers to explore the lives of hundreds of individuals from diverse backgrounds, from abolitionists to suffragists, and royalty to republicans.

From UCLA's Ethnomusicology Archive, Maureen Russell, Archivist, and Adjunct Associate Professor, Supeena Insee Adler explain how a programme of promotion and training on the use of AM’s Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings enhanced both study and teaching of the resource, and covered for the loss of the physical archival experience during the pandemic.

AM's Louise Hemmings explores the unique impact and inherent worth of audio-visual primary sources for higher education teaching and research, and how AM has utilised and facilitated AV content both in our own collections and with our digital collections platform, AM Quartex.

In 2019, the University of Minnesota approached a group of publishers, including award-winning primary sources publisher AM, to support their project helping school students to prepare for National History Day. Dot Kelly, Engagement Manager at AM, explains how the collaborative initiative was developed and has helped expand access to digital primary sources, inspiring school students across Minnesota.

Amnesty International Archives: A Global Movement for Human Rights, the newly-published primary source database from AM, invites students and researchers to explore the history of the leading human rights NGO, and how their activities intersected with other key events in the development of the idea of universal human rights.

The Loyola Marymount University (LMU) adopted AM Quartex in 2019. Neel Agrawal, Digital Projects Librarian, William H. Hannon Library, explores how innovative partnerships and collaborations have contributed to the development of the library's digital collections.

AM’s open access project, First Folios Compared, unlocks exciting new research opportunities for scholars, students and Shakespeare enthusiasts. James Gatheral, PhD, explores this resource’s unique features and potential uses, as well as discussing the importance of AM’s archival partnerships in developing the project.

AM is delighted to announce a partnership with the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (CUNY DSI) to digitise several archival collections, to be featured in the forthcoming collection, Latin American Communities in the United States.

Lindsay Gulliver, Publishing Manager at AM and Erin Pearson-Willbery, Senior Editor at AM discuss the importance of creating accessible, sustainable and inclusive content through digitisation of primary sources, and using exciting new technologies such as Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR).

Sam Ellis, PhD, explores Himalayan Mountain nomenclature, revealing the plurality in names that were, and still are, prevalent amongst local voices when referring to the namesake of the former Surveyor-General, George Everest.

The Archbishop Desmond Tutu Archive, a new digital archival collection, commissioned by The Archbishop Tutu IP Trust and created by AM Quartex, launched on 7 October 2023, on what would have been the Archbishop’s 92nd birthday.

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Déirdre Joyce, Head of Digital Stewardship and the Digital Library, Syracuse University, documents the establishment of the Libraries' Department of Digital Stewardship, and how a new digital library model, which includes AM Quartex at its heart, was developed to provide patrons with improved digital access to the university's special collections.

AM’s latest publication, British Newsreels, 1911-1930, is an exciting new video resource based on over 6,000 early twentieth century Topical Budget newsreels drawn from the British Film Institute and the Imperial War Museums.

AM has announced a new partnership with the digitisation solution provider Microform, which will see the digital collections platform AM Quartex made available as an enhancement to Microform’s digitisation service offering to libraries and archives.

The stories of LGBTQ+ people throughout history are notoriously difficult to uncover. It is, then, to the rare, personal queer archive that we must turn to find insights into lives and complex experiences that may subvert our expectations of straightforward stories. The personal archive of Michael B sheds light on one such story.

Drawn from the vast records of the British Colonial Office held at The National Archives, UK, this unique collection documents the governance of 25 territories in the Caribbean, spotlighting a wide range of themes and narratives.

AM has partnered with Preservica, a global leader in Active Digital Preservation archiving. The collaboration will result in an integration that offers libraries and archives a well-rounded digital ecosystem to protect and publish their digital assets.

Find out more about the newest addition to our Archives Direct portfolio, the first part of Conflict in Indochina: 1959-1964. Through reports, memoranda, photographs, maps, and economic data, researchers and students are afforded a behind-the-scenes look at a time of crisis and upheaval for the region following French decolonisation.