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Resources
At UC Berkeley
Resources Within
UC System
Research Archives Outside UCB
At UC Berkeley
Reading Groups
UNITED KINGDOM SEMINAR
Contact James
Vernon or Mark
Bevir . This
series of talks, sponsored by the Institute
of Governmental Studies, and presented by leading figures in British
politics and political thought, examine British governance
in the twenty-first century. A list of upcoming presentations
can be found at the colloquium's website.
BRITISH HISTORY READING
GROUP
Contact: Mike Buckley
The group discusses recent work in British history in light
of developments in cultural studies, imperial and post-colonial
history, gender studies, and comparative history. The monthly
discussions are held alternately in Berkeley and Stanford.
NINETEENTH-CENTURY
AND BEYOND, BRITISH CULTURAL STUDIES
Contact: Mark Allison
The group provides a forum for faculty and graduate students
to discuss works-in-progress on social and cultural change
within nineteenth-century Britain and its colonies.
Research Archives and Resources at UC Berkeley
Electronic Resources at UCB Libraries
Visit this site to access such electronic databases as Historical
Abstracts, Victorian Research Web, Shakespeare resources,
etc. The Doe/Moffitt Libraries together support the teaching,
research, and instructional needs of more than 50 academic
departments and programs in Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences,
International and Area Studies, Undergraduate Services.
UC
Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA)
frequently showcases the work of British artists and filmmakers
in its exhibition programs, from the historical--recent
exhibitions on portrait miniatures or the prints of William
Hogarth-- to the contemporary--a fireworks performance
by Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans in February 2003 or a
series on the gritty films of Alan Clarke. The BAM/PFA
collections contain nearly 350 works of British art, notably
several 17th-century court paintings by Peter Lely; the
Hogarth print series A Rake's Progress, A Harlot's Progress,
and Election Series; prints by William Blake and J.M.W.
Turner; 19th-century photographs by Lewis Carroll and Frederick
Evans; and works by contemporary artists such as Tracey
Enim, Sarah Lucas, Peter Doig, Ceal Floyer, Tacita Dean,
and Michael Kenna. The PFA film collection contains over
300 works from the UK, with recent titles such as 1994's
The Maltese Double Cross (a documentary about Pan Am flight
103), 1950s films such as the classic Alec Guiness
comedy The Lavendar Hill Mob, and the frisky Victorian
lady in her boudoir of 1896.
PFA online resources include
a database of over 12,000 Film
Notes.
CineFiles (database
of digital images of catalogued contents of a growing number
of clipping files). Among the international list of directors
whose files have been imaged are British directors Alan Clarke,
Alfred
Hitchcock, Alexander Korda, and Michael Powell.
PFA Film/Video Collection searchable on Melvyl
and Gladis,
limit location to PFA;
publication location "United Kingdom").
Robbins
Library for English Legal Materials.
The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800 - 1926
A fully searchable collection of 19th and 20th century legal
treatises, casebooks, local practice manuals, form books,
pamphlets, letters, speeches, and other historical legal
works, covering a wide range of topics of US and British
law. Includes approximately 10 million pages of over 21,000
works. UC access only.
Resources Within UC System
Davis: British Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 Project.
Shields Library, UC Davis
Irvine: UCI Library Special Collections: The British
Naval History Collection (1700-1918)
Los Angeles: UCLA Library's holdings in British
literature, including Dryden holdings and 17th century
collections. See Resources for details.
San Diego: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library:
British Admiralty Charts
San Francisco: Galen
II Tobacco Control Archives: The British-American
Tobacco Document Collection.
Santa Barbara: Active English and History Departments
offering British courses
Santa Cruz: The
Dickens Project (scholarly consortium devoted
to promoting the study of the life, times, and work of
Charles Dicken; sponsors conferences, institutes, and
public presentations)
Pacific
Coast Conference on British Studies (Systemwide
and California generally), to promote British Studies.
Research Archives Outside UCB
British Museum
The Sutro Library (a branch of the California State Library
in SF; holds newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets, manuscripts
from 1630-1900, including papers from Darwin, Wordsworth,
British explorers, history of science)
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