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Virtual Museum of New France

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:34:41 +0000

This website provides a virtual tour of the Canadian Museum of History’s collection on New France. The various themes attempt to cover the territory on which New France is based, a land occupied by French settlers since 1534, when Jacques Cartier began the first of his three explorations in such an unusual and wild land. The tour shows some of the most important historical milestones of the French colonial experience. The layout of the contents is established by a series of specific headings showing objects, original texts, as well as other elements typical of the period.

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Modern History in the Movies

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:34:41 +0000

In 1997 the Department of History at Fordham University in New York City created a web repository as a result of The Internet History Sourcebooks Project with access to a wide variety of historical texts and primary sources of documentation, whose purpose is to bring young students closer to the knowledge of the basic sources for the study of history. The website allows users to navigate through its contents in a simple and quick way. Each user can access the main blocks of the site by means of subject indexes at the top of each tab. In this case, we highlight the Modern History in the Movies section, where we will have access to numerous references to cinematographic works that deal with the Modern Era

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The transatlantic slave trade

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:34:41 +0000

The European colonisers trafficked millions of slaves captured mainly in Africa in order to use them as labour for numerous activities. In this way, thousands and thousands of people were transported to various regions of the planet, as we know well in the case of the American continent. This resource provides access to a large database called the “Transatlantic Slave Trade Database”, which contains an immense amount of information on the development of slavery from the 16th century to the end of the 19th century. It is a project supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (United States) and is the result of the efforts of scholars from different institutions, including historians, cartographers and slave trade specialists and researchers. The database itself is divided into various fields such as timelines, maps, 3D videos, essays and estimates and a detailed image bank.

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Museum of Fine Arts of Seville

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:34:41 +0000

The Seville Museum of Fine Arts was founded as the “Museum of Paintings” by Royal Decree on 16 September 1835, with works from convents and monasteries confiscated by the liberal government of Mendizábal. This art gallery is considered to be one of the most important in Spain and through this interactive virtual tour we can easily and quickly access a large part of its permanent exhibitions of religious-themed paintings, mostly belonging to the Baroque style. It also has important works by Francisco Pacheco, Zurbarán and Murillo.
The building where the museum is located dates back to the beginning of the 17th century, built on the ancient remains of a Mudejar building, the design of which is attributed to the architect Juan de Oviedo.

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Masters of the Baroque

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:34:41 +0000

The Seville Museum of Fine Arts was founded as the “Museum of Paintings” by Royal Decree on 16 September 1835, with works from convents and monasteries confiscated by the liberal government of Mendizábal. This art gallery is considered one of the most important in Spain and through this interactive virtual tour we can access in a comfortable and quick way to a large part of its permanent exhibitions on religious-themed paintings, mostly belonging to the Baroque style as a concept of life and at the same time expression of art. The following resource provides a digital presentation of the Baroque masters, highlighting well-known works by Francisco Pacheco, Zurbarán and Murillo.

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Ferrol Shipbuilding Museum

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:34:41 +0000

The Museum of Naval Construction, located in the Herrerías building, has managed to maintain the architectural structure typical of the 18th century. The important thing to note is that it houses two floors dedicated to the history of shipbuilding. On the ground floor we can access the different construction techniques, where we can also see in more detail the operation and the different parts of a ship.
On this visit we can see the wreck of the Fragata Magdalena, sunk in the Vivero estuary in 1810 and recovered by the Navy between the 1970s and 1980s.
On the upper floor there are a series of themed rooms such as the one dedicated to the Astano shipyard, called “Miracle in the Estuary”. Other rooms are dedicated to the Navy, its Ships and its Schools; the Shipping Companies, the Ports, etc.

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Royal Chapel of Granada

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:34:41 +0000

The royal chapel of Granada, which was erected to preserve the remains of the Catholic Monarchs, was built in Gothic style between 1505 and 1517. The 16th century is the century of the chapel’s fullness, where the sobriety of the building is highlighted. Under Emperor Charles I it continued to flourish with all kinds of decorations. Today, the mark left by Queen Isabella, in a certain sense, marks the large number of visits that take place every year. On this website, users can access the history of the monument, as well as take a guided tour where they can see the different cultural contributions that the chapel has undergone over the last 500 years. This portal also contains complementary information on the Lonja, built in 1518 by the Granada City Council.

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Spanish Golden Age Theatre

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:34:41 +0000

ProQuest together with a large number of partnerships have created a collection of content that encompasses up to 90,000 authoritative sources and 6 billion digital pages spanning a time coordinate of six centuries. It is one of the largest collections in the world. In this case, the database we offer includes numerous references to Spanish Golden Age theatre from the 16th and 17th centuries. Specifically, we will find around 800 plays by 16 renowned playwrights, including Lope de Vega and Calderón de la Barca. The Editorial Board has chosen especially careful editions, bringing together collections that are distributed in different European libraries.

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The 18th century in Aragon

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The Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa (GEA) was first published in 1981, directed by Eloy Fernández Clemente. At the end of 2002, the digitalisation of its contents began and in 2003 the first version of the GEA Online was launched, with the collaboration of the Departments of Education and Science and Technology of the Government of Aragon. We access here to the History section of the Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa (GEA) online, to focus on the political, social, economic and cultural characteristics of the 18th century in Aragon. The topics are organised into blocks, some of them being: the Bourbons and the War of Succession, the promulgation of the Nueva Planta Treaties, the emergence of the Aragonese party around the figure of the Count of Aranda, the Aragonese Enlightenment, Baroque art, the struggle between the bourgeoisie and the nobility or the life of the most disadvantaged. In addition, the encyclopaedia contains some didactic sections such as revision tests, timelines, etc.

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Ibero-American Heritage Digital Library “Manuscripts” Collection

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:34:35 +0000

Content repository of digitised collections of manuscripts from libraries and archives in Latin America, as well as databases of digital collections. Here we can find more than 14,000 documents, especially correspondence. The vast majority are primary sources that can be of great use in the field of research and teaching.

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