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VIC191Y: Artistic Creation & Public Issues

Research tools, resources, and strategies for the students enrolled in the course during the 2023–2024 academic year, taught by Professor Claire Battershill.

Other Topics & Collections

George Romney, Macbeth and the Witches

Images and Visual Resource Collections

A comprehensive research guide to online collections, including both free and subscription-based visual archives, arranged by topic (advertising, art, photography, and many others), geographical settings, and historical time periods.


Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Online Collections

An extensive digitized collection of artwork, photographs, medieval manuscripts, book covers and illustrations. Search the platform by keyword or title, or browse by a specific type of publication under Genre (such as Drawings).


Primary Source Databases for Historical Research

An extensive research guide with an annotated list of digital collections of primary sources arranged by topic: gender and sexuality, Holocaust, oral history, politics, law, and science, religion, transatlantic slavery and abolition, and world history.


Subjects A–Z

Digital collections containing a diverse types of primary sources (including rare books, paintings, and audio-visual materials), arranged alphabetically by discipline.


Lead image: George Romonet (1734–1802), Macbeth and Witches, 1785. Folger Shakespeare Library.