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The evolution of Keesing's

Keesing's online archive offers the full content of our century-spanning archive. On this page, you can see how Keesing's has changed since its 1930s inception, and how it has always maintained standards of concise, comprehensive, and rigorous coverage.

In the 1930s, Keesing's was published weekly. This issue included coverage of the Czech crisis, when Britain and France brokered a plan whereby the Czechoslovak government ceded the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany. Click on the thumbnails to the view the original pages.

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 Keesing's pp. 3233-6, from September 1938, covering the Czech crisis

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Today, online, the same content looks like this (click to enlarge):

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Fully linked, with searchable text, and tags to identify the persons and nations mentioned in the text and help you find other articles in which they feature.

Useful, too, if your hardcopy collection doesn't extend back over seven decades...

 

 

    >>Click here to explore Keesing's in the twenty first century... 



 
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