Perspectives for Researching British Appeasement of Nazi Germany in the Inter-War Years Using the Digitized Newspaper Collections of the British Library

This paper aims to verify that the methods for researching the British appeasementpolicy towards Germany in the inter-war years can include the new method of studying the digitizedcollections of newspapers of the British Library. The policy of appeasement led by Great Britainduring the inter-war yea...

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Veröffentlicht in:Revista Hiperboreea Jg. 4; H. 1; S. 47 - 60
1. Verfasser: Vasiliu, Andrei
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Bucharest Asociația de Istorie Balcanică 01.06.2017
Balkan History Association
Pennsylvania State University Press
Bucarest : Institutul de istorie Nicolae Iorga
PERSÉE : Université de Lyon, CNRS & ENS de Lyon
Schlagworte:
Appeasement
Archives & records
British history
British Library
Foreign policy
Intercoder reliability
Interwar period
Keywords
Library and Information Science
Library collections
Research methodology
STUDIES AND ARTICLES
War
United Kingdom > UK
Germany-pre-1945
ISSN:2688-8211, 2284-5666, 2284-5666
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Zusammenfassung:This paper aims to verify that the methods for researching the British appeasementpolicy towards Germany in the inter-war years can include the new method of studying the digitizedcollections of newspapers of the British Library. The policy of appeasement led by Great Britainduring the inter-war years still represents a very attractive subject of research. The challenge lies notonly in the new data harvested from primary sources such as documents and newspapers but also inthe new methods of researching that may be applied, and that may increase the interest of scholars. Today, researching the digitized collections of archives are not even a futuristic resource, but a growingnecessity. Accessing the British Library's digitized collections through the British Newspaper Archivewebsite is often easier and more efficient than going to the archives. The site has more than 40 milliondigitized newspapers, mainly local periodicals, which can be accessed by searching for keywords,establishing filters and saving results to retrieve them later. The electronic resources of the digitizedcollections provide valuable help in my doctoral research on the Anglo-French appeasement reflectedin the newspapers, which proves to be a great challenge, given the fact that the subject was widelycovered in many of the central newspapers. But, of course, this method immediately poses multiplequestions: is this method of research as rigorous as the traditional research conducted in the archives?Does this method provide the intercoder reliability framework required for such works? These are theresearch questions that remain at the center of this article. Previous research on the subject of digitizedcollections and also the analysis of the resources of the British Newspaper Archive in comparison withthe traditional British Library resources can provide an answer.
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ISSN:2688-8211
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DOI:10.3406/hiper.2017.926