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It's been a few years, but I've started a number of articles on the "Requested Articles" list.

Most are pretty obscure, but thankfully Google Books and Amazon "search inside" gives access to information published before the web was born. There are also some services where you can ask a librarian online to look something up in a book for you. I've had some luck previously with http://www.nla.gov.au/askalibrarian




Hey, that's my "local" library!

Trove is also amazing, but fairly biased towards Australian history (for obvious reasons).

http://trove.nla.gov.au/




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