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British and Irish History


Background Information | Journal Articles | Books & Videos


Biography | Images | Letters & Diaries | Magazine Articles
Maps | Newspapers | Primary Sources

Background Information

 
Blackwell Reference Online - History (Blackwell)
A collection of full-text reference books in history. [more info]
Campus/Remote
Cambridge Histories Online (Cambridge University Press)
Cambridge Histories Online provides political, economic and social history, philosophy and literature... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Guide to Reference (ALA)
A selective guide of reference sources, organized by academic discipline... [more info]
Campus/Remote
History Resource Center: World (Gale)
A comprehensive collection of reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, primary sources, and images, maps and charts... [more info]
Campus/Remote
OED Online (Oxford English Dictionary) (Oxford University Press)
This database contains the entire text of the Oxford English Dictionary... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection (Oxford University Press)
Database of full-text scholarly reference books on all subjects... [more info]
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Journal Articles

 
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index (Chadwyck-Healey)
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index is an all-inclusive bibliographic tool for 19th-century research... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Historical Abstracts (EBSCO)
An index with abstracts to more than 2000 periodicals on world history from 1450 to the present ... [more info]
Campus/Remote
JSTOR
Full online text and images for back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History (Royal Historical Society)
This resource will cease as of 1/1/2010.  Please begin using Historcial Abstracts.
An index to scholarly historical writing on the British Isles, Commonwealth and Empire...
[more info]
Unrestricted
WilsonWeb OmniFile (HW Wilson)
An index with abstracts and some full text covering all subjects, including humanities and social sciences... [more info]
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Books & Videos

 
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index (Chadwyck-Healey)
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index is an all-inclusive bibliographic tool for 19th-century research... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Early English Books Online (Chadwyck-Healey)
Early English Books Online™, 1475-1700 (EEBO) provides digital access to more than 100,000 literary and historical classics.... [more info]
ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Gale)
Provides digital editions of nearly all books published in Great Britain in the 18th century... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Historical Abstracts (EBSCO)
An index with abstracts to more than 2000 periodicals on world history from 1450 to the present ... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History (Royal Historical Society)
This resource will cease as of 1/1/2010.  Please begin using Historcial Abstracts.
An index to scholarly historical writing on the British Isles, Commonwealth and Empire...
[more info]
Unrestricted
WorldCat (OCLC)
Catalog of over 62 million titles cataloged by libraries worldwide ... [more info]
Campus/Remote

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Biography

 
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online (Oxford University Press)
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. [more info]
Campus/Remote

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Images

 
ARTstor
Image database containing images of architecture, painting, sculpture... [more info]
Campus/Remote
ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Gale)
Provides digital editions of nearly all books published in Great Britain in the 18th century... [more info]
Campus/Remote
LIFE Photo Archive
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. [more info]
Internet
Times Digital Archive (Gale)
Search every word of every page of The London Times, and view PDF facsimiles of either a specific article or a... [more info]
Campus/Remote

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Letters & Diaries

 
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press)
Primary source database offering women's diaries and letters... [more info]
Campus/Remote

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Magazine Articles

 
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index (Chadwyck-Healey)
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index is an all-inclusive bibliographic tool for 19th-century research... [more info]
Campus/Remote

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Maps and Atlases

 
ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Gale)
Provides digital editions of nearly all books published in Great Britain in the 18th century... [more info]
Campus/Remote

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Newspapers

 
19th Century British Library Newspapers (Gale)
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]
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index (Chadwyck-Healey)
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index is an all-inclusive bibliographic tool for 19th-century research... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Times Digital Archive (Gale)
Search every word of every page of The London Times, and view PDF facsimiles of either a specific article or a... [more info]
Campus/Remote

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Primary Sources

 
19th Century British Library Newspapers (Gale)
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]
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press)
Primary source database offering women's diaries and letters... [more info]
Campus/Remote
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index (Chadwyck-Healey)
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index is an all-inclusive bibliographic tool for 19th-century research... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Earls Colne, Essex - Records of an English Village, 1375-1854
Primary documents (church, state, estate, and personal) from one village in England over the course of four centuries. [more info]
Early English Books Online (Chadwyck-Healey)
Early English Books Online™, 1475-1700 (EEBO) provides digital access to more than 100,000 literary and historical classics.... [more info]
ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Gale)
Provides digital editions of nearly all books published in Great Britain in the 18th century... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Empire Online (1492-1962)
Full text primary source documents, including original manuscripts and printed material... [more info]
Campus/Remote
OAIster Database
OAIster contains thousands of multidisciplinary resources from more than 1,000 contributors worldwide... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Times Digital Archive (Gale)
Search every word of every page of The London Times, and view PDF facsimiles of either a specific article or a... [more info]
Campus/Remote

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