This comprehensive news collection is ideal for exploring issues and events at the local, regional, national and international level. Its diverse source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos.
Use it to explore a specific event or to compare a wide variety of viewpoints on topics such as politics, business, health, sports, cultural activities and people. Content is easily searched and sorted through an intuitive, map-based interface.
Over 5,000 full-text e-books covering archaeology, art, film and media studies, folklore, history, law, linguistics, literature, musicology, performance studies (theater, music, dance), philosophy, political science, religion, sociology and women’s studies.
Full-text journal articles in the visual and applied arts.
Subject coverage includes: literature, art, philosophy, linguistics, architecture, history, social sciences, humanities, music, design, photography, etc.
Bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles and with the British Empire and Commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present.
BoB is an off-air recording and broadcast media archive service available to Higher Education Institutions providing access to TV and radio programmes from over 65 'free-to-air' channels using a programme guide and a search option.
It includes a permanent archive of all broadcast content from nine channels: BBC1 London / BBC2 / BBC4 / ITV London / Channel 4 / More4 / Channel 5 / BBC Radio 4 / BBC Radio 4 Extra.
There is an option to schedule recordings up to seven days in advance and request programmes broadcast over the previous 30 days.
A national collection of over 150,000 socio-political cartoons from British newspapers and magazines, plus comic strips, newspaper cuttings, books and magazines.
An archive of 120 short documentary films made by the British Council during the 1940s designed to show the world how Britain lived, worked and played.
British Library Newspapers contains full runs of influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of British society. Coverage is from 1732 to 1950, and a number of new titles have recently been added to the collection, including the Westmorland Gazette, Leeds Intelligencer, and the Liverpool Daily Post. Now including Irish newspapers
The collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
NB: British Library Newspapers (1732-1950) includes the vast majority of the newspapers contained within the British Newspaper Archive (BNA). Exclusions are low print runs and material with poor legibility. BNA content is exclusively available to higher education institutions via the BL database.
Contains facsimile page images and searchable full text for over 470 British periodicals published from the 17th until the early 20th century.
Topics covered include literature, music, art, drama, archaeology, architecture, philosophy, history, science, and the social sciences.
Online access to over 350 books in the Cambridge Histories series.
Subject areas include: American and British history, economic history, general history, history of science, history of the book, language & linguistics, literary studies, music, philosophy, political & social theory, regional history, religious studies, theatre studies & performing arts and warfare.
Provides access to a vast body of original British source material that will enrich the teaching and research experience of those studying history, literature, sociology and education from a gendered perspective.
A search portal allowing searching across all Gale databases: 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection, British Library Newspapers (1732-1950), 19th Century UK Periodicals, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, The Economist Historical Archive (1843-2013), The Financial Times Historical Archive (1888-2010), and The Times Digital Archive (1785-2008).
A repository of digital content from research libraries, including content digitized via the Google Books project and Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries.
Founded in 1921, the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) is an important resource and meeting place for researchers from all over the world. Based at the University of London.
Key resource for scholarly literature on Western art. Subject coverage includes: European art since late antiquity; American art since the colonial period; global art since 1945; fine art in the media; decorative arts and antiques; museum studies and conservation; archaeology and material culture; folk art; architectural history.
Dating from the 19th century, this database brings together political party materials, including election manifestos and political cartoons, along with material from pressure groups such as the Fabian Society and from cooperative movements such as the Cooperative Women's Guild.
Original manuscript and typescript papers created and collected by the Mass Observation organisation, as well as printed publications, photographs and interactive features.
Discovery holds more than 32 million descriptions of records held by The National Archives and more than 2,500 archives across the country. Over 9 million records are available for download.
Oxford Reference Online consists of a wealth of facts, figures, definitions, and translations found in dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.
Reliable source of high quality content in the arts, humanities and social sciences from many of the world's leading universities and scholarly societies.
An abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature in the fields of science, mathematics, engineering, technology, health and medicine, social sciences and arts & humanities.
SocINDEX with Full Text is a full-text research database covering sociology and related disciplines. It features hundreds of full-text journals and millions of records with subject headings from a sociological thesaurus. Subjects covered include gender studies, criminal justice, social psychology, religion, racial studies and social work.
In addition to full-text journals, SocINDEX with Full Text contains informative abstracts for core coverage journals dating as far back as 1895. Complete with extensive indexing for books, monographs, conference papers and other non-periodical content sources, the database also includes searchable cited references.
This website presents the history of Great Britain through places between 1801 and 2001. It includes maps, statistical trends, a gazetteer of British administrative units, on-line versions of a selection of tables and early printed text from some of the published Census Reports as well as historical descriptions of places and journeys.
The site is free to use and does not require any registration. Please note, it does not identify individual people, buildings or addresses, but it does put historical places into context and gives an indication of how life in England, Scotland and Wales has changed since 1801.
The full contents of Vogue magazine (US edition) in full color page image, from the first issue in 1892 to the present, with monthly updates for new issues.
Indexes thousands of high quality, peer-reviewed journals, providing complete bibliographic data, full-length abstracts and links to cited references and citing articles.
A collection of 19th-century anti-slavery pamphlets from the private collection of Henry Joseph Wilson (1833-1914), the distinguished Liberal Member of Parliament for Sheffield.
The collection is of particular importance for the study of the activities of the provincial philanthropic societies, such as the Birmingham and Midland Freedmen's Aid Association, the Birmingham and West Bromwich Ladies' Negro's Friend Society, the Glasgow Emancipation Society, the Manchester Union and Emancipation Society, and the Sheffield Ladies Female Anti Slavery Society. Of interest is the prominent role of women in the movement, who formed themselves into societies which lobbied MPs and printed pamphlets on the conditions of slaves. Here we have details of what was sold at their bazaars to raise funds and lists of names of subscribers, the minutiae which bring alive the history of the movement.
Coverage: 1761-1900
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