British and Irish History
Background Information | Journal Articles | Books & Videos
Biography |
Images | Letters & Diaries | Magazine Articles
Maps |
Newspapers | Primary Sources
Background Information
Online access to Bibliographic Index is no longer available. Print volumes for 1937-2008 (v.1-48) are available in Carrier Library. Please stop by the public service desk for assistance with retrieval. [more info]
Carrier Library - Reference
A collection of full-text reference books in history. [more info]
Cambridge Histories Online provides political, economic and social history, philosophy and literature... [more info]
Search over 500 reference titles using Credo. [more info]
A selective guide of reference sources, organized by academic discipline... [more info]
This database contains the entire text of the Oxford English Dictionary and the Historical Thesaurus of the OED. [more info]
Find subject specific lists of scholarly articles in Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO). Each research guide in OBO provides an introduction to the topic and annotated bibliographic lists of books and articles recommended by scholars in the field. [more info]
Database of full-text scholarly reference books on all subjects. [more info]
Search most of JMU's reference collection for background articles from encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, etc. [more info]
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Journal Articles
The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) provides historical data on the British Isles from 55BC to present. Secondary sources only. [more info]
Not recommended for use in Google Chrome. Please use Internet Explorer, FireFox, or Safari. C19: The Nineteenth Century Index is an all-inclusive bibliographic tool for 19th-century research. [more info]
An index with abstracts to more than 1,800 journals in 40 languages on world history from 1450 to the present. [more info]
Full online text and images for back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, anthropology, sociology, literature, etc. [more info]
An index with abstracts and some full text covering all subjects, including humanities and social sciences. [more info]
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Books & Videos
The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) provides historical data on the British Isles from 55BC to present. Secondary sources only. [more info]
Not recommended for use in Google Chrome. Please use Internet Explorer, FireFox, or Safari. C19: The Nineteenth Century Index is an all-inclusive bibliographic tool for 19th-century research. [more info]
Early English Books Online™, 1475-1700 (EEBO) provides digital access to more than 100,000 literary and historical classics.... [more info]
Provides digital editions of nearly all books published in Great Britain in the 18th century... [more info]
An index with abstracts to more than 1,800 journals in 40 languages on world history from 1450 to the present. [more info]
Catalog of over 62 million titles cataloged by libraries worldwide ... [more info]
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Biography
Biographies of 55,000 men and women who shaped all aspects of the British past from the earliest times. No living person is included in the dictionary.
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Images
Image database containing over 1 million images in subject areas such as art, architecture, music, religion, anthropology, world history, literature and more. [more info]
Provides digital editions of nearly all books published in Great Britain in the 18th century... [more info]
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. [more info]
Search every word of every page of The London Times, and view PDF facsimiles of either a specific article or a... [more info]
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Letters & Diaries
Primary source database offering women's diaries and letters... [more info]
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Magazine Articles
Not recommended for use in Google Chrome. Please use Internet Explorer, FireFox, or Safari. C19: The Nineteenth Century Index is an all-inclusive bibliographic tool for 19th-century research. [more info]
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Maps and Atlases
Provides digital editions of nearly all books published in Great Britain in the 18th century... [more info]
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Newspapers
Gale NewsVault is a cross-searchable platform that allows us to search or browse all of our Gale historical newspaper and periodical collections. The NewsVault allows users to browse newspapers and periodicals by title or place of publication; save, print and bookmark search results; grab, pan, and zoom images; and cross-browse all newspapers published on the same date. [more info]
A collection of English news media in the form of newspapers, pamphlets, and broadsides from the United Kingdom collected by Reverend Charles Burney. [more info]
Search the contents of 49 local and national newspapers from nineteenth century Britain. Includes titles such as the Freeman's Journal, Lloyd's Illustrated Newspaper, and the Pall Mall Gazette. [more info]
Full text journals, magazines, and specialty newspapers that portray British life in the Victorian Age. Subscription includes Series 1: New Readerships and Series 2: Empire. [more info]
The British Newspaper Archive contains millions of digitized newspapers owned by the British Library. While searching is free, there is a fee to download full text articles. JMU Libraries are not responsible for paying these fees. [more info]
Not recommended for use in Google Chrome. Please use Internet Explorer, FireFox, or Safari. C19: The Nineteenth Century Index is an all-inclusive bibliographic tool for 19th-century research. [more info]
Search every word of every page of The London Times, and view PDF facsimiles of either a specific article or a... [more info]
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Primary Sources
A collection of English news media in the form of newspapers, pamphlets, and broadsides from the United Kingdom collected by Reverend Charles Burney. [more info]
Search the contents of 49 local and national newspapers from nineteenth century Britain. Includes titles such as the Freeman's Journal, Lloyd's Illustrated Newspaper, and the Pall Mall Gazette. [more info]
Primary source database offering women's diaries and letters... [more info]
Not recommended for use in Google Chrome. Please use Internet Explorer, FireFox, or Safari. C19: The Nineteenth Century Index is an all-inclusive bibliographic tool for 19th-century research. [more info]
Primary documents (church, state, estate, and personal) from one village in England over the course of four centuries. [more info]
Early English Books Online™, 1475-1700 (EEBO) provides digital access to more than 100,000 literary and historical classics.... [more info]
Provides digital editions of nearly all books published in Great Britain in the 18th century... [more info]
Full text primary source documents, including original manuscripts and printed material... [more info]
OAIster contains thousands of multidisciplinary resources from more than 1,000 contributors worldwide. [more info]
Search every word of every page of The London Times, and view PDF facsimiles of either a specific article or a... [more info]
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