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The Research Seminars began at a time when very few researchers in Britain had access to the Internet. When I became Director of the Library & Archive School at University College later in 1990 I began introducing students (with pretty primitive equipment) to the wide range of bibliographical sources available by Telnet. By special arrangement with OCLC readers in the British Library were given access to the huge collaborative database EPIC. Combined with access to the growing number of major university catalogues in North America readers for the first time in Britain were given access to electronic sources which could further their research. The following is a list of the more important research projects I was able to assist, arranged chronologically from 1990 to 1994.

British Marxist historians and Soviet historiography.
Popular fiction: 1900-1940.
The history of nannies, au pairs, and baby sitters.
The medieval history of Clerkenwell.
Alexander Pope and eighteenth-century typography.
The provincial reading public: 1746-1800.
The growth of lending libraries in the eighteenth century.
English printers: 1580-1600.
Pushkin's critical prose.
Literary associations with London Underground stations.
Bibliography of cookery: 1500-1800.
History and philosophy of art in Europe: 1500-1700.
The history of the Levant.
Editing Shakespeare: a historical survey.
The history of dance and liturgical choreography: 1400-1700.
Bibliography of computers and information retrieval.
Travel literature in translation: 1600-1800.
Bibliography of Renaissance science: 1450-1700.
English travel literature: 1600-1700.
The dramatic writings of Edward Bond.
Elizabethan political writings, and Shakespeare's history plays.
Bibliography of accounts of excavations in the Eastern Mediterranean, with illustrations and maps.
Personification, Jocus, play and folly in Renaissance Italian art.
Montesqueiu's notebooks on legal cases in Bordeaux and Paris.
Mind-control techniques in twentieth-century cults.
Bibliography of Latin-Americana.
The symbolism of the swastika from Sanskrit to the Nazis.
Symbolic representations of women in Renaissance art.
Women and music in the eighteenth century.
The development of Wilhelm von Humboldt's theories of language up to Sapir and the linguistic relativists.
Bibliograpy of computers and librarianship.
The Dracula theme in European literature.
Modern criticism on Chekhov.
The birthplace of Caxton.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Renaissance English literature.
Editions of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: 1700-1800.
The philosophy of art and restoration.
Liturgical texts and nineteenth-century British scholarship.
Germany and Germans in post-War British fiction.
Books on Ceylon: 1885-1900.
Geopolitics since 1945.
The sources for the history of Lucy Sidney, Algernon Sidney, Algernon Percy, and Robert Sidney.
The bibliography of physiognomy: 1450-1700.
The history of the study of hieroglyphics to 1800.
Swinburne and the post-pre-Raphaelite aesthetic of the visual arts.
Studies of Jamaican population statistics: 1655-1740.
Neo-classical design (1800-1810), and the post-classical movement in architecture.
British writers and political developments in Europe: 1789-1815.
Manuals of rhetoric based on Aristotle and Cicero: 1465-1800.
Critical history of John Marston.
Critical edition of the prose works of Samuel Butler: 1691-1759.
Bibliography of Flannery O'Connor.
Bibliography of John Betjeman.
Philip Francis in India.
Fables as children's literature: 1500-1800.
Ancient Egyptian and Mesapotamian artefacts discovered on European soil.
Sir Thomas Walsingham.
Criticism of Adalbert Stifter's Der Nachsommer (1857) in the twentieth century.
Provincial printing of children's literature to 1830.
Nineteenth century publishing history, and studies of British firms established after 1820.
Works on Sir Hans Sloane and the early history of the British Museum.
Pre-Raphaelite art and dissident culture in the 1890s.
History of the British school-meals service.
The nineteenth-century illustrated book.
The economics of natural resources management.
The philosophical dialogue: 1600-1800.
Victorian sex scandals.
Books on architecture derived from classical sources.
Magnetism and sympathy in European literature: 1700-1850.
Plagiarism and forgery: 1700-1900.
Children's literature: 1800-1900.
Studies of Romanesque art and architecture in Saint-Savin (Vienne).
British railway accident reports: 1900-1990.
Nineteenth-century booktrade history.
The Militia Bill in Scotland: 1760-1764.
Critical edition of Trollope's Nina Balatka [1867].
Autobiography as a literary genre.
Eighteenth-century rhetorical theory.
Rhetoric and women in America: 1750-1850.
Gothic sculpture in Northern France.
Studies on Edmund Burke as a parliamentary orator.
The twelve-tone system in twentieth-century music.
The physiology of rhetoric.
The development of stochastic systems from Alexander Aphrodiseos to modern statistical theory.
Publishing history: works published by Peter Davies; André‚ Deutsch; Lawrence and Wishart; Osgood and McIlvaine.
Quaker sermons in the eighteenth century.
Benjamin Rush and Anthony Benezet as opponents of slavery.
Biblical exegesis: 1800-1850.
Orlando Jewitt as an illustrator of Victorian books.
Paratextual elements in T.S. Eliot's Waste Land and John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman.
Gothic fiction (1870-1910), social medicine, criminal anthropology, and hypnotism.
Passion and feeling as rhetorical devices in eighteenth-century American fiction.
Time capsules.
Bibliography of the works of Alexander Dalrymple, cartographer.
Bibliography of works published by William Pickering: 1835-1853.
Chartism and women's participation in nineteenth-century working class politics.
The textual and critical history of Thomas Haliburton's The Clockmaker.
John Leech as a book-illustrator.
Anglo-Irish constitutional law.
Texts on the French and Spanish settlement of North America.
The influence of Thomas Reid as a philosopher.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan and parliamentary politics.
Adam Smith and his influence on theories of political economy.
War and literature in the twentieth century.
The concept of 'moderation' in eighteenth century political writing.
Manuals for painting and drawing: 1600-1950.
Acting techniques and the plays of Shakespeare: 1650-1800.
English/Italian politics: 1850-1861.
John Marston, Arminianism and Holland.
Logistics and warfare in Greek and Roman times.
Land tenure in Australia: 1820-1850.
Antonio Bulle as music printer in Rome: 1550-1565.
Concepts of invention and the patent system: 1850-1900.
The settlement of land disputes and manorial records.
Victorian fiction: 1830-1840.
Pre-Reformation English shrines.
British responses to the American War of Independence.
The history of Monterey.
Arminianism and anti-Arminianism in England.
Victorian religious verse.
The origins of the sonata for solo instruments.
Quaker mothering: 1650-1800.
The cold war in British universities: 1950-1986.
English utopian literature and the concept of time.
Travels in sub-Saharan Africa and illustrations of African flora: 1500-1800.
J.S. Mill and the methods of social science.
The influence of Spanish pastoral verse and fiction on English literature.
Sources for the history of Sussex.
Greek mythology, the classical tradition and architectural theory.
The bibliographical history of post-1500 printed books once thought to be incunabula.
The textual history of E.M. Forster's Maurice and his treatment of women and homosexuality.
The critical reception of four playwrights: Caryl Churchill, Edward Bond, Harold Pinter, and David Hare.
Scientific instruments: 1700-1900.
Printing and publishing in The Hague: 1620-1700.
The geology of Jersey.
The concept of baroque in English literature.
Eighteenth-century editions of Shakespeare and the language of the texts for performance.
Titian through the eyes of American travellers in Italy: 1800- 1900.
Periodicals for women: 1914-1918.
John Heywood's The Four PP: a critical edition.
The literature on geographical globes: 1500-1800.
English sermons: 1550-1560.
Barristers and the Inns of Court: 1700-1800.
Advertising and women: 1914-1918.
Greek astronomy.
Bibliography of Commonwealth Studies.
The cotton trade in the Bombay Presidency: 1850-1900.
Comparative linguistics: English and Russian.
Enver Pasha.
The history of the Yemen Arab Republic: 1971-1990.
The life of Captain George Vancouver.
Books owned by William Lambarde, Laurence Nowell, and Sir Robert Cotton.
The history of Canterbury Cathedral.
The conservation of library materials in tropical countries.
Public building in London: 1850-1900. Public reaction.
Invention and inventors: 1700-1900.
Dialectology as a sociolinguistic discipline
Eighteenth-century aesthetics.
Thomas Bray and the development of public libraries.
The concept of the middle class in late eighteenth-century politics.
Illustrations of fables and emblem books: 1600-1800.
The textual history of four plays by Aphra Behn.
Exhibition catalogues for works by William Blake: 1900-1990.
Death; funeral customs; coffins: 1700-1900.
Writings on the American novelist Toni Morrison.
The middle class as a political force in England: 1790-1850.
The exploitation of women as cheap labour.
The controversy over ritualism in the Anglican Church: 1860-1867.
Samuel Butler and Italy.
Anglo-Saxon prayers.
Witchcraft and witch-hunts: 1500-1700.
The concept of 'conscience' in England: 1550-1630.
The Dutch artist Rietveld as an illustrator of books.
Anglo-Russian polytechnic lexicography.
Cognitive science and philosophical categories.
The history of the Cottonian library.
John Eliot, Tudor grammarian of French.
The artist in fiction: 1890-1939.
Themes of English sermons: 1603-1688.
Henry Wood Promenade concert programmes.
Studies of Lewis Mumford.
The British in the state of Jodhpur.
Conjecture in the editing of vernacular and classical texts: 1700-1800.
The environment and politics.
Peace research institutes: a bibliography of their publications.
Dutch and French books on anatomy for artists.
Illustrations to the Dance of Death.
Medieval manuals of etiquette and behaviour.
The novels and romances of William Godwin.
The history of the Stowell family of Northampton.
The bibliography of the history of London to 1939.
The history of the Moravian Church in Britain and North America in the eighteenth century.
Women and science in seventeenth century Europe.
The treatment of marriage and property rights in eighteenth century women novelists.
Definitions of 'literature' and 'science' in the Renaissance.
George Puttenham (1589) and Renaissance theories of rhetoric and stylistics.
The history of the text of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Descriptions of costume in seventeenth-century European books of travel and memoirs.
Biographical studies of women journalists: 1840-1945.
Modern methods of printing currency.
Patron Saints of Venetian craft guilds in the sixteenth century.
The poetry of Oswald von Wolkenstein.
Biographical study of Catherine of Siena.
The Knights Templars in England: 1500-1800.
Bibliography of atlases: 1500-1800.
Works on the Sudan (including Ethiopia, Sennar, Darfur, Kordofan, Nubia and Fung) before 1910.
Sources for British consitutional history before 1700.
A bibliography of theatrical costume.
Animals in nineteenth-century British painting.
Eighteenth-century topographical views of Clerkenwell.
Audience manipulation: with special reference to the plays of Joe Orton.
Samuel Hartlib and Theophraste Renaudot and the theory of knowledge.
Greek fiction and the development of the romance.
Jansenism in Central Europe to the eighteenth century.
The concept of anima mundi in European literature.
Antedating for scientific and technical words in the revision of the Oxford English Dictionary. [UK]
English social life: 1200-1400; with particular reference to costume, popular songs, food and housing.
Socialist and trade union pamphlets: 1900-1939.
The economic history of Eritrea: 1860-1940.
Bibliography of Emanuel Swedenborg.
Biography of Charlotte Turner Smith.
Printing in Douai: 1586-1640.
Catholic printing in Louvain: 1620-1630.
Church of England Sisterhoods: 1845-1900.
John Dury and the reformation of libraries in the seventeenth century.
Napoleon and Egypt.
Archaeology in England, from Leland to the founding of the Society of Antiquaries.
The practical application of the work of Gregory Bateson on the theory of cybernetic epistemology in fields other than family therapy.
Study of Dorothy Norman and the influential journal Twice a Year: 1936-1948.
Victorian paintings of the Royal Family with dead game.
Life of Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon.
The development of libraries for the working class in England.
Catalogues of libraries in Mechanics Institutes in England and America in the nineteenth century.
Protectionism in Scandinavia: 1945-.
Encyclopedia of science fiction.
Bibliography of works by, and about, Graham Greene.
London parks: 1700-1900.
History of the Unity Theatre, Camden: 1937-54.
Comparative study of stereotypes in children's literature: 1850- 1920.
World atlases: 1670-1730.
Educated public opinion and the 'phoney war': a comparison of attitudes in France, Belgium and England.
The history of 'small change': a study of minimal coinage in England before 1650.
A history of the Field Day Theatre in Belfast: 1980-.
The migration of labour and economic development in India since 1947.
George A. Walker and intramural burial in England.
The history of the excavation of the Globe Theatre in Southwark.
Visits by Mozart and his family to London.
Missionaries and colonial policy in China: the Boxer Rebellion.
A comparative study of R.M. Rilke and B. Pasternak.
Maternal mortality and the National Birthday Trust Fund.
Publications relating to Burundi: 1972-1990.
Books owned or annotated by William Camden.
The history of Iona.
Funeral sermons printed before 1661.
The economy of Uttar Pradesh: 1947-1990.
Contemporary theories of philosophy reconciling science and religion.
The exodus of Jews from central Europe to Palestine and Israel after World War II.
Group psychology in Austria and Germany (1880-1900) and contemporary German and French theories of manners and social behaviour.
The economics of exploration for gas and oil with particular reference to environmental factors.
Milton's Paradise Regained, the Book of Job and the art of William Blake.
Fauna in the lakes and rivers of Siberia.
The psychological basis of script-writing in the adaptation of drama and fiction in the cinema, with particular reference to Shakesepare and Dickens.
Sources for social attitudes to homosexuality: 1690-1820.
Biography of Ann Radcliffe.
Edward Younghusband's expedition to China.
Study of Charity Scot Stokes.
Camille Claudel and Rodin.
Economic growth rate in Eastern Europe since 1970.
Pierre Henri Leroux and the development of Christian Socialism in France.
British foreign policy: 1909-1914.
Huguenots in Camden and Somers Town.
Bibliography of W.B. Yeats.
Women writers of fiction in France: 1700-1800.
Eighteenth-century literary magazines.
Publications by J. & J. Rivington in 1755.
The Empress Shokotu in English literature.
Wars in Burma from the eighteenth-century to British rule (1885); with particular reference to the war of 1824-26.
The first Boer War: 1880-81.
Emperor Bokassa I of Central Africa: 1977-79.
Town planning in Hong Kong.
Ephemeral publications connected with women convicted of murder: 1800-1850.
Critical study and life of Anne Plumptre: novelist, traveller, translator.
The history of caviar and its processing in the U.S.S.R. and North America.
Bibliography of heraldry (to 1990).
Jean Berain (1640-1713) and his influence on the decorative arts.
History of chivalric literature and its influence on the prose romance in Europe.
Popular 'enlightenment' in Germany in the eighteenth century.
The Irish contemporary theatre.
The role of women in ancient India (-1600).
Books on nursing, hospital management and architecture (1850-60).
The Australian artist Charles Conder.
Women as spies.
Bibliography of Quebec printing: -1840.
Eusebius of Caesarea and the development of the Christian Church.
Incunabula in Church Slavonic.
Interference by Government agencies in the internal affairs of Yugoslavia (1945-1990).
Italian and German books on medicine: 1500-1700.
Irish autobiographies: 1900-1980.
Gregory Bateson and the theory of epistemology.
The concept of 'reference' in linguistic and epistemological theory.
Bibliography of the works of Pietro Aretino.
Thomas Keightley and Antonio Panizzi.
Personal accounts of survivors of German concentration camps in Poland.
History of the architecture of London squares.
The development of revolutionary parties in Europe (outside Russia).
Bibliography of writings on Gabriel Hervey.
Isomorphism. cystallography and the theory of harmonics.
Nineteenth century British social philosophy.
The role of the D'Este and Gonzaga families in Renaissance art.
Character count frequency analysis in European languages.
The history of phonetic symbolism 1550-1900.
Library cooperation and resource sharing in India and South East Asia.
Rural and agricultural reconstruction in France after World War I.
W.B. Yeats and Noh theatre.
The characterisation of artists in European fiction.
Europeans in Shanghai before the Japanese invasion in 1937.
The suppression of the Jesuits in South East Asia.
The social consequences of architecture in Latin America since 1900.
Anthony Trollope's treatment of women.
Nineteenth century women playwrights.
Ezra Pound and The New English Weekly.
World War I English poets.
Victorian attitudes to industrialisation.
Defoe and the English novel.
Music societies in the eighteenth century.
Bibliography of works by Seamus Heaney.
The cult of the Blessed Virgin Mary and medieval literature.
Children as savages in British and American literature.
Jean Rhys and modernism.
Orator John Henley and eighteenth century dissent.
Bibliography of the history of cinema.
The printing history of Ezra Pound's Cantos.
J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis and the tradition of fantasy literature in England and Europe.
Eighteenth century manuals on the art of conversation.
Creative writing in Trinidad and Tobago: 1800-1939.
A definitive canon of books and pamphlets written by Daniel Defoe.
The sugar industry in the Caribbean up to the abolition of slavery.
The political and economic history of Burma since 1947.
Bibliography of translations in European langauges from cuneiform tablets.
The printing of the Bible, Psalms and Book of Common Prayer in Oxford and Cambridge: 1701-1800.
Printed library catalogues (private and public): 1700-1800.
Action theory and modern philosophy.
The 'beat' generation [Kerouac, Ginsberg, &c.] and women writers.
History of historical lexicography: 1500-1700.
Slavery and women: 1780-1860.
Thomas Saint, Newcastle printer, and the London book trade.
A bibliography of works printed at Paris by the Imprimerie Nationale.
The definition of scientific vocabulary in English dictionaries before Charles Richardson (1848).
History of the British Consular Service in Greece: 1825-1860.
Bibliography of studies of the plays of August Strindberg.
Autobiographies of childhood.
Modern American portrait painting (1900-).
Imagery of Stonehenge in English writing.
The colonial administration of St. Christophers in the West Indies.
The English and Minorca in the eighteenth century.
Writings on Thomas Traherne.
Biographical dictionary of eighteenth-century British engravers.
The influence of German poets (Goethe, Schiller, Herder) on Edith Wharton.
Bibliography of music lexicography: 1500-1800.
Body-snatchers, resurrectionists and the supply of cadavers for dissection.
The Kit-Cat Club (c.1720) in London.
Bibliography of dictionaries of music: 1500-1800.
Non-medical writings of English physicians: 1700-1800.
The "American claimant" trope [inheritance] in nineteenth-century British and American fiction.
Neil Gunn and modern Scottish fiction: 1920-1960.
The court-martial of Admiral Augustus Keppel in 1779.
Seventeenth-century British lexicographers.
Juvenal and English satire in the eighteenth century.
Scientific periodicals in France: 1670-1750.
The building of King's Cross station.
Writings on Japan (all languages other than oriental): 1850-1914.
The Arab Bureau: 1916-20.
History of Victorian Turkish Baths.
Bibliography of Victorian and Edwardian books for boys.
Works published by Jonathan Edwin: 1650-90.
Bibliography of works on the cinema published before 1930.
The perception of Victorian morals and manners in Hollywood films of the 1940s.
American "Silver Shirts" and the German American Bund.
English Romantic poets and political idealism.
Marshall McLuhan, the concept of 'space' and modern architecture.
Satire in the the twentieth-century novel.
History of the establishment of the National Library at Sharjah.
Recent biographies of Romantic poets.
Nabokov and Romanticism.
History of theatrical poster design and production.
Translation of Spanish plays into English: 1550-1700.
Religious views of twentieth-century scientists.
The subway/rapid-transit systems in Moscow, Prague, Barcelona and Munich.
The growth of the sugar economy in the West Indies up to the abolition os slavery.
British prisoners of war in Soviet internment camps since the Korean War.
The history of British naval uniforms.
Seventeenth-century concepts of citizenship.
Electro-horticulture and electro-agriculture.
English art: 1642-1649.
The history of Highland clearances: 1830-1900.
Railway bookstores and their influence on publishing: 1850-1900.
D.W. Griffith as creator of Hollywood stars, and Carol Dempster his most spectacular failure.
The manufacture and uses of cocoa/chocolate: 1720-1900.
Critical studies since 1985 of Browning, Tennyson and Arnold.
Bibliography of memoirs of British Public Schools.
Study of Bryan S. Johnson.
Greta Garbo and Cecil Beaton.
History of the ships carrying emigrants to Virginia: 1600-1700.
History of the customs and traditions of Christmas in America.
Hurricanes in the Caribbean since 1700.
Frost fairs on the Thames: 1600-1800.
Study of the career of "H.D." (Hilda Doolittle).
Works on ecclesiastical history published in England and Italy: 1700-1800.
Sermons on the material conception of heaven: 1914-1950.
The history of illusionism, with particular reference to Houdini.
Gypsy migrations in Central and Eastern Europe since 1989.
Christian Raue and the development of Arabic studies in England up to 1700.
Astronomy and astrology in the early twentieth century.
Women and the economic growth of India since 1900.
Literature translate into Spanish during the Franco dictatorship.
Political censorship in Britain: 1914-1918.
Accounts by survivors of the sinking of the "Titanic" in 1912.
Studies of George Eliot's style and use of language.
Study of Mesopotamian mythology.
Writings of genetic code since 1980.
Bibliography of games in Europe: 1500-1800.
The history of the teaching of English: 1500-1800.
European Community foreign policy.
Museum libraries in Britain: a history.
AIDS in fiction since 1980.
Critical study of Veronica Forrest-Thomson.
Bio-critical study of Dorothy Richardson.
Archive evidence for the history of William Bligh in Australia and Britain.
Fictional accounts of the `Mutiny on the Bounty'.
Manuscript and printed versions of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway.
Morris dancing: street and theatre versions.
The history of transport on the Thames.
Foundling hospitals in eighteenth century England and Ireland.
Bibliography of books relating to the Republic of Niger: 1900-.
History of female nervous diseases: 1700-1900.
Bibliography of John Ashbery, American poet.
The `Ten Lost Tribes of Israel'.
Wilkie Collins and his mistresses.
Sexuality and urban life.
Rainforest resources in the Cameroon.
Environmentally sustainable tourism [ecotourism].
Health and gender in the Hunza Valley of Pakistan.
The sociological effects of the telephone before 1900.
Cultural politics of Muslim identity in contemporary Britain.
Study of Hilda Doolittle [H. D.]
Comparative study of the poets Robert Lowell, Seamus Heaney and Geoffrey Hill.
Text and image in the works of D.G. Rossetti.
The import of Swedish softwood pulp into the U.K.
Migration and gender in immigrants to the U.S.A. from Mexico.
Suffragettes in London: 1909-1914.
Robert Browning and politics.
Melton Mowbray and Mercian history, with particular reference to Leofric and Caractacus.
World oil: history, geography and politics.
Mental nursing: 1850-1950.
Nazi-Zionist collaboration.
Accounts (fictional or true) of castaways.
Directory of publications by U.K. museum libraries since 1960.
Scottish and Irish nationalism: 1920-39.
Illustrations of archaeological sites in Georgia [U.S.S.R.].
Theosophical Society publications: 1875-1914.
Spirit photography.
Publications in crystallography: 1991-1993.
Oriental gardens in England in the eighteenth century.
English cathedral music: 1750-1800.
Bibliography of works by and about Robert Graves.
The organisation of archives in China since 1949.
Max Planck and the theory of heat radiation.
Keats' marginalia and Amy Lowell.
The library of Ben Jonson.
The politics of Ernest Benn.
The novels of Pedro Morante: 1920-1945.
Books annotated by William Lambard and Laurence Nowell.
Bibliography of sale catalogues: 1600-1700.
The development of `modernism' in literary criticism since 1900.
Guides for emigrants to America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand: 1790-1900.
The editing of classical texts in Holland: 1600-1700.
Gerald Edelman and the theory of mind.
The history and settlement of Surinam.
Early photographs of Savannah, Georgia.
John McLoughlin and the Hudson's Bay Company, 1840-53.
The Council of Siena, 1423-24.
Catalogue of the drawings of Sir Edwin Lutyens.
The novels of Jean Genet.
British women playwrights: 1735-1770.
The Australian artist Charles Conder.
The civil rights movement in America: 1950-1970.
The Berlin Photographic Company of New York: 1900-1930.
Monotheism in ancient Greece and Rome.
Sale catalogues of private libraries with printed music: 1750- 1800.
The printing of cathedral music in the eighteenth century.
Foreign investment in Kuwait.
Animal painting in England (1800-1900) - particularly Landseer, Ward, Cooper and Collins.
Edition of Sir Thomas Browne's Christian Morals, 1716.
Architecture and urbanism in Islamic countries.
Printing in China by the London Missionary Society: 1842-1873.
English works on Aleksandr Pushkin: 1960-.
Manuscript collections of works by Robert Graves.
English translations of Russian short stories: 1946-.
Critical edition of the works of Heliodorus.
Sources for the history of lighthouses.
Critical study of the works of Jon Stallworthy.
Bibliography of Antonia S. Byatt.
Working mothers and disabled children: a study.
Bibliographical works on zoology: 1500-1800.
Study of Arnold Leese.
René Guyon and sexual ethics.
Tracts on the union between Great Britain and Ireland: 1797-1800.
Biography of Henry Grattan (1746-1820).
Bibliography of the Fanfrolico Press.
The economic theories of Louis Kelso and the development of ESOP companies in America.
Books on etiquette: 1600-1900.
Douglas Cleverdon and the modern private press movement.
Control of the press in Ireland.
English travellers in Portugal: 1700-1900.
A catalogue of drawings by Charles Waterton.
Matthew Flinders (1774-1814) as cartographer.
John Grierson and the development of the documentary film.
Ulrich von Hutten and the German Reformation: 1517-1523.
The political career of Michael Manley and the Jamaican People's National Party.
The Pugwash Conferences: 1957-.

The Research Seminars started on Tuesday March 13th, 1990 and concluded on Thursday September 1st, 1994. They were attended by readers from a wide variety of countries and, as the above list shows, a very wide variety of disciplines. In some cases readers have sent me copies of their published research and acknowledge the help provided them. When, in September 1994, I was informed that this service would be provided in future by the Enquiry Desk staff, I was naturally delighted. In fact, the service simply ceased! In the new building on Euston Road readers are provided with computers and are able to discover – if they know how – the vast amount of online information available on the Internet.

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