The sources used
Where electronic versions available online exist, the links are provided: just click on the titles of the publications
Biographies, correspondence & memoirs
Ernest Rutherford
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Rutherford, Scientist Supreme , book (1999) and website by John Campbell
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Rutherford: being the life and letters of the Rt. Hon. Lord Rutherford, OM ., Arthur Stewart Eve, 1939
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Rutherford's ancestors , John Campbell
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Rutherford, Simple Genius , David Wilson
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A Force of Nature: The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford , Richard Reeves
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Rutherford and the nature of the atom , Edward Neville da Costa Andrade
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Rutherford at Manchester , JB Birks
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Lord Rutherford , Norman Feather
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Rutherford's nuclear world , Center for History of Physics at AIP
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Giant of the atom: Ernest Rutherford , Robin McKown
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Ernest Rutherford - Radioactive Change , Pierre Radyanyi
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Ernest Rutherford Obituary , Royal Society
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The Fly in the Cathedral , Brian Cathcart
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Rutherford: Recollections of the Cambridge Days , Mark Oliphant
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Man of Power, The Life Story of Baron Rutherford of Nelson , Ivor Evans
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Rutherford, Radioactivity, and the Atomic Nucleus , by Helge Kragh
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The beginnings of the Nobel Institution: the science prizes, 1901-15 , Elisabeth Crawford
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Rutherford's Nobel Prize and the one he didn't get , Cecilia Jarlskog
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Men Who Made a New Physics: Physicists and the Quantum Theory , Barbara Lovett Cline
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Brief history of Lord Rutherford's radium , Neil Todd
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The Cavendish Laboratory, 1874-1974 , James Gerald Crowther
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William Kay, Samuel Devons and memories of practice in Rutherford's Manchester laboratory , Jeff Hughes, Notes Rec. R. Soc. (2008) 62, 97–121, January 2008
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Who knew Piezoelectricity? Rutherford and Langevin on submarine detection and the invention of sonar,” Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 66 (2012): 141-157, Shaul Katzir
My Dear Eve ... The Letters of Ernest Rutherford to Arthur Eve, 1907–1908 , Montague Cohen
My Dear Eve ... The Letters of Ernest Rutherford to Arthur Eve , Part II, 1909–1911 , Montague Cohen
My Dear Eve ... The Letters of Ernest Rutherford to Arthur Eve , Part III, 1912–1914 , Montague Cohen
My Dear Eve ... The Letters of Ernest Rutherford to Arthur Eve, Part IV, 1915–1919 , Montague Cohen
My Dear Eve…: The Remaining Letters from Eve's Rutherford File , Montague Cohen & AJ Hobbins
Pierre and Marie Curie. Papers. II - PAPERS AND CORRESPONDENCE. LXXIX-CI Pierre and Marie Curie. Letters received. XCVII Radiological Society - Rutherford: Letters from Ernest Rutherford to Marie Curie can be found from sheet 326, which corresponds to page 385 of the scanned version .
Rutherford correspondence catalog / compiled by Lawrence Badash
Marie Curie
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Marie Curie, Susan Quinn
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Marie Curie, Robert Reid
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Marie Curie, Robin McKown; Lili Rethi
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Marie Curie, Henry Gidel
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Madame Curie, Eve Curie
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Une femme honorable, Francoise Giroud
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Les Sœurs savantes, Marie Curie et Bronia DÅ‚uska, deux destins qui ont fait l'Histoire, Natacha Henry
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Great obsession, Marie Curie and her world, Rosalynd Pflaum
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Le secret bien gardé de la matière : Marie Curie et la radioactivité, Adela Muñoz Páez
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The book about Blanche and Marie, Per Olov Enquist; Tiina Nunnally,
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The Curies: a biography of the most controversial family in science, Dennis Brian
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Before the fallout: from Marie Curie to Hiroshima, Diana Preston
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A Test of Courage: Marie Curie and the 1911 Nobel Prize, Susan Quinn in The Clinical Chemist 2011
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A travers deux siècles: souvenirs et rencontres (1883-1967), Camille Marbo (pseudonyme de Marguerite Borel)
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Marie Curie, une intellectuelle engagée ?, Michel Pinault, in "Clio. Histoire‚ femmes et sociétés" 2006
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Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie, Payot, 1924
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Pierre, mon Pierre, Mourning diary of Marie Skłodowska-Curie, Polish/French bilingual edition, translation by Agata Tomaszewska, edited by Tomasz Pospieszny and Ewelina Wajs-Baryła. Sophia Publishing, Warsaw
Websites :
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Musée Curie, Paris
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Muzeum Marii SkÅ‚odowskiej-Curie w Warszawie (Musée Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie à Varsovie)
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PiÄ™kniejsza Strona Nauki (Le plus beau côté de la science), Ewelina Wajs-BaryÅ‚a & Tomasz Pospieszny
Other personalities
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Niels Bohr's times, Abraham Pais
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Niels Bohr: the man, his science, & the world they changed, Ruth Moore, 1966
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The quantum theory of Planck, Einstein, Bohr, and Sommerfeld, Jagdish Mehra
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Collected works, Niels Bohr
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Probabilities Of The Quantum World, Daniel Danin
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Men Who Made a New Physics: Physicists and the Quantum Theory, Barbara Lovett Cline
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American Institute of Physics - ORAL HISTORIES - Niels Bohr - Session I (1962) (links to sessions II to V available on the page of the 1st part)
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Margrethe Bohr's Oral History, Session I, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics
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Margrethe Bohr's Oral History, Session II, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics
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William Henry Bragg, 1862-1942 : man and scientist, Gwendolen Caroe
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William And Lawrence Bragg, Father And Son, The Most Extraordinary Collaboration In Science, John Jenkin, 2008
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Early Days of X-ray Crystallography, André Authier
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The Legacy of Sir Lawrence Bragg : selections and reflections, John Meurig Thomas ; David Phillips
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Crystal Clear: The Autobiographies of Sir Lawrence and Lady Bragg, Anthony Michael Glazer, Patience Thomson
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William And Lawrence Bragg, Father And Son, The Most Extraordinary Collaboration In Science, John Jenkin, 2008
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Early Days of X-ray Crystallography, André Authier
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William Lawrence Bragg, David Phillips, Biographical Memoirs of the Royal Society
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Light is a Messenger : the Life and Science of William Lawrence Bragg, Graeme Hunter, 2004
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American Institute of Physics - ORAL HISTORIES - William Lawrence Bragg (1969)
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Irène Joliot-Curie, Noëlle Loriot
Albert Einstein :
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L'espace est une question de temps : Einstein et la relativité, David Blanco Laserna
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The Einstein almanac, Alice Calaprice
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The quantum theory of Planck, Einstein, Bohr, and Sommerfeld, Jagdish Mehra
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Men Who Made a New Physics: Physicists and the Quantum Theory, Barbara Lovett Cline
Otto Hahn :
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Lise Meitner :
Harry Moseley :
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H. G. J. Moseley: The Life and Letters of an English Physicist, 1887-1915, J. L. Heilbron
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Science in the 20th Century and Beyond, Jon Agar, pages 89-90
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Harry Moseley: Numbering the Elements, a production of Moreno/Lyons Productions in association with Oregon Public Broadcasting
Arthur Schuster :
Joseph John Thomson :
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J.J. Thomson and the Cavendish laboratory in his day, George Paget Thomson,
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The Life Of Sir J J Thomson, Robert John Strutt Lord Rayleigh
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Flash of the cathode rays : a history of J.J. Thomson's electron, Per F. Dahl
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The Cavendish Laboratory, 1874-1974, James Gerald Crowther
Chaim Weizmann :
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Trial And Error, The Autobiography, Chaim Weizmann, 1949
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Chaim Weizmann, Norman Rose, 1986
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The impossible takes longer; the memoirs of Vera Weizmann, 1967
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German-Jewish pioneers in science, 1900-1933 : highlights in atomic physics, chemistry, and biochemistry, David Nachmansohn, 1979
Miscellaneous:
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Arthur James Balfour; the happy life of the politician, prime minister, statesman, and philosopher, 1848-1930 , Kenneth Young,, 1963
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Otto Baumbach - Rutherford's Glassblower , Alan Gall, Archivist, Institute of Science and Technology, Sheffield
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Charles Galton Darwin 1887-1962 by George Paget Thomson In BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY
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Bergen Davis - Biography , by Harold W. Webb
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What little I remember , Otto Frisch, Robert, 1979
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Robert Owens King - The Professional Odyssey of a Practical Canadian Engineer , in The Northern Mariner volume 18, Canadian Nautical Research Society
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Paul Langevin, correspondances et documents divers : Fonds Paul Langevin, ESPCI​
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Marconi , Giancarlo Masini, 1995
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My Father, Marconi , Degna Marconi
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: an autobiography and other recollections , 1984
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Dictionary of New Zealand Biography volume 1 and volume 2 , Guy Scholefield 1940
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Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000 , 2004
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Rutherford's Chemists (Hevesy-Ramsay-Soddy) IOP History of Physics Newsletter April 2018
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The Cavendish Laboratory, Nursery of Genius , Egon Larsen
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Leadership and Creativity: A History of the Cavendish Laboratory , 1871–1919 , Dong-Won Kim
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The Birth of the Atomic Nucleus. The story of Geiger & Marsden and others, Robin Marshall
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The biographical dictionary of women in science: pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century , Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie, Joy Dorothy Harvey, 2000
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Inventing women: science, technology, and gender , Gill Kirkup, Laurie S Keller
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American Institute of Physics - ORAL HISTORIES : interviews with Niels Bohr (1962), William Lawrence Bragg (1969), Georg VonHevesy (1962), James Chadwick (1969) and many others
History of science
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De l'atome au noyau : Une approche historique de la physique atomique et de la physique nucléaire, Bernard Fernandez
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Histoire de la physique et des physiciens : de Thalès au boson de Higgs, Jean-Claude Boudenot
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The Early History of Radioactivity (1896-1904), Stephen Brian Sinclair 1976
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Great Scientists Wage the Great War, William van der Kloot, 2017
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Listen up! : memories of the Hawkcraig Admiralty Experimental Station, Aberdour, Fife, 1915-1919, Diana Maxwell, 2014
Proceedings of conferences and scientific articles
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The International Congress of Radiology and Electricity, Brussels, September 13-15, 1910, Bertram B. Boltwood,
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La théorie du rayonnement et les quanta : rapports et discussions de la réunion tenue à Bruxelles, du 30 octobre au 3 novembre 1911, sous les auspices de M.E. Solvay, Paul Langevin, Maurice de Broglie
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Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Dublin 1908
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Seventy-ninth annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Winnipeg 1909 : programme of local arrangements, with map of Winnipeg
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Report Of The 86th Meeting Of The British Association, Newcastle-on-Tyne 1916
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Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Bournemouth 1919
Registers, genealogies, censuses, directories
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Pierre et Marie Curie. Papiers. III — CAHIERS DE LABORATOIRE ET CAHIERS DIVERS. CXXXV-CXXXVIII Carnets d'adresses. CXXXVI Écritures de Pierre et Marie Curie, quelques annotations de Marie Curie postérieures à 1906.
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Recensement du Canada (exemple de l'année 1901) : Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
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Archives numérisées de la ville de Paris (j'y ai par exemple consulté les actes de naissance d'Irène Curie et de sa soeur Eve),
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FindMyPast (l'accès gratuit permet de voir des informations limitées, mais qui peuvent suffire dans certains cas),
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Slater's Manchester, Salford & Suburban Directory, 1909. [Part 4: Suburban Directory]
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Register of graduates and holders of diplomas and certificates, University of Manchester
Knowledge of places and times
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Contextual Historical Overview of Christchurch City, John Wilson 2005
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Atlas of the City of Montreal and vicinity in four volumes - Volume 1 - 1912
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The conurbations of Great Britain, Thomas Walter Freeman, 1966
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The fateful year : England 1914, Mark Bostridge
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Handbook and guide to Manchester, Charles W Sutton, 1907
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Lancashire and the new liberalism, P. F. Clarke, 1971
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Cambridge observed : an anthology, Charles W. R. D. Moseley
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The British Isles, 1901-1951, Keith Robbins
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The history of British winters, D. Fauvell and I. Simpson
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The World of Yesterday: Memories of a European, Stefan Zweig (German title: Die Welt von Gestern: Erinnerungen eines Europäers)
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First World War
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The Authors’ Declaration of Sept. 1914, Nick Milne, University of Ottawa, 2014
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The Manifesto of the Ninety-Three, Nick Milne, University of Ottawa, 2014
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Le manifeste des 93 : la nature de la mobilisation intellectuelle allemande au déclenchement de la Grande Guerre, Marie-Eve Chagnon; Université du Québec à Montréal, 2007
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Ruhleben, a prison camp society, John Davidson Ketchum, 1965
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Personal perspectives. World War I, Timothy C. Dowling, Editor, 2006 (about the internment camp of Ruhleben)
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The Gallipoli campaign, NZ History
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Gallipoli: the New Zealand story, Christopher Pugsley, 1984
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The History of the Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F. 1914 – 1919, David Ferguson, 1921
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With Them Through Hell : New Zealand Medical Services in the First World War, Anna Rogers, 2020
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The Anzac book: written and illustrated in Gallipoli by the men of ANZAC, Queensland University of Technology Digital Collections
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Announcement of the death of William Rutherford, cousin of Ernest Rutherford, at Gallipoli on 13 July 1915, Sun (Christchurch), 29 Juillet 1915
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William Rutherford Online Cenotaph, Auckland Museum
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The Supreme Command, 1914-1918, Volume 1, Maurice Hankey, 1961
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The Supreme Command, 1914-1918, Volume2, Maurice Hankey, 1961
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Great Scientists Wage the Great War, William van der Kloot, 2017
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Listen up! : memories of the Hawkcraig Admiralty Experimental Station, Aberdour, Fife, 1915-1919, Diana Maxwell, 2014
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Enemy aliens in Great Britain 1914-1919, The National Archives 2017
Newspapers
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New Zealand: Papers Past
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Quebec: Banq (Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec)
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Great Britain and United States: Newspapers.com (paid)
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Belgium: BelgicaPress
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France: Gallica
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Germany: ZEFYS - ZEitungsinFormationssYStem (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin)
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Austria: ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online / Historische österreichische Zeitungen und Zeitschriften online (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek)
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Switzerland: Gazette de Lausanne et Journal de Genève (archives of the newspaper Le Temps)
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United States: Chronicling America / The Library of Congress
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Australia: Trove
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Singapore: NewspaperSG