LibGuides: History: E-resources

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Search Summon to find online journal articles and book chapters.

Key databases

ACLS Humanities Ebook [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Full-text of over 4500 titles in the humanities. Most titles are listed on Enterprise.
Help and guidance
ACLS Humanities Ebook help page
American National Biography [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Biographies of more than 19,000 men and women, from all eras and walks of life, whose lives have shaped the American nation.
Help and guidance
Help using American National Biography
Arts and Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new window
Part of Web of Science, this citation index gives references to journal articles, letters, editorials, notes, meeting abstracts, discussions, music scores, poems, plus reviews of literature, performances and recordings in arts and humanities subjects, including history.
This database is part of the Web of Science Core Collection. To search just this part select 'Arts & Humanities Citation Index' from the 'Editions' drop down list.

Gives references to journal articles, letters, editorials, notes, meeting abstracts, discussions, music scores, poems, plus reviews of literature, performances and recordings. Covers 1970-

Help and guidance
Web of Science Training Portal
Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) This link opens in a new window
References for historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British Empire and Commonwealth, from 55BC to the present.
Successor to the Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History. Covers 1901 onwards.

Help and guidance
Using BBIH online
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) / Repertoire de la litterature de l'art (RILA) This link opens in a new window
Covering visual arts in all media from around the world with references to journal articles, monographs, exhibition catalogues and other material.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) / Repertoire de la litterature de l'art (RILA) covers visual arts in all media including:
- traditional fine arts (painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, architecture)
- decorative and applied arts
- material culture
- photography and contemporary new media
- visual arts aspects of performing arts

It includes European art from late Antiquity to the present; American art from the European arrival to the present and Christian and European art in Africa, Asia, and Australia.

Includes:
- Bibliography of the History of Art (1990-2007)
- Repertoire de la litterature de l'art (1975-1989)
Cambridge Histories [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Provides access to over 300 volumes published in the Cambridge Histories series since 1960, including the New Cambridge medieval history and the New Cambridge modern history.
Provides full-text access to over 300 volumes published in the Cambridge Histories series since 1960. Subjects range across the humanities and include:
- American history
- British history
- Economic history
- General history
- History of science
- Language and literature
- Literary studies
- Philosophy
- Political and social theory
- Regional history
- Theatre studies and performing arts
- Warfare

All titles are listed on the Library catalogue.
IMB (International Medieval Bibliography) This link opens in a new window
Gives references to journal articles, conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften covering all aspects of medieval studies.

Choose the International Medieval Bibliography database when you reach the homepage.
IMB is relevant to the following disciplines:

-Arabic and Islamic studies
-art history
-Classics
-English language and literature
-history and archaeology
-history of education
-medieval European languages and literatures
-music
-rhetoric and communication studies
-theatre and performance arts
-theology and philosophy
JSTOR [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Archive of journal articles from 1880 up until a "moving wall" of between 2 and 5 years. It covers most subjects, including language, literature, history, social sciences and general sciences subjects.
Full-text archive of journal articles covering most subjects. Covers 1880s up to a 'moving wall' usually of between 2 and 5 years. Each journal title has its own 'moving wall'.

We subscribe to the following JSTOR packages: Arts & Sciences I-XI, Biological Sciences, Health & General Sciences and Ireland Collection.

We also subscribe to the 19th Century British Pamphlets collection.

Help and guidance
JSTOR help page for searching
Oxford Academic [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to books and journals published by Oxford University Press, covered by our subscriptions.
Access to most journals published by Oxford University Press covering 1996 to the present. Plus full-text access to archive issues from 144 journals covering 1849-1995.

Access to purchased and subscribed e-books, including from the following series and collections:
All titles are listed on the Library catalogue
Oxford Art Online [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Search across several dictionaries and encyclopedias covering visual arts including painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography.
Search across:

Grove Art Online - The dictionary of art (1996, 34 vols.)
The Oxford companion to western art
Encyclopedia of aesthetics
The concise Oxford dictionary of art terms

Help and guidance
Help using Oxford Art Online
Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new window
Searchable bibliographies covering major areas of scholarship within various disciplines including history.
Bibliographies currently subscribed to are:

-Atlantic history
-Classics
-Medieval studies
-Philosophy
-Renaissance and Reformation
-Victorian literature

Individual articles are listed on the Library catalogue.

Help and guidance
Oxford Bibliographies help
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2000.
Help and guidance
Oxford DNB Help
Oxford Handbooks Online [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Provides access to review essays covering key issues and exploring major debates across several subject areas, including history, classical studies, archaeology and political science.
The University has purchased some titles in the following subjects:

-Archaeology
-Business & management
-Classical studies
-Criminology & criminal justice
-Economics & finance
-History
-Law
-Linguistics
-Literature
-Philosophy
-Political science
-Psychology

Individual titles are listed on the Library catalogue.

Help and guidance
Oxford Academic guides
Project MUSE [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to over 500 journal titles in the arts, humanities and social sciences; complements JSTOR by providing recent issues of many titles in that archive.
View a list of titles available on Project Muse (you will need to be on-campus or logged in via the off-campus link above to view this list).

Complements JSTOR by providing recent issues of many titles in that archive.

Help and guidance
Project MUSE video tutorials and search guides
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Gives references to journal articles, books, conference proceedings and patents in all subjects. Also offers extensive tools to analyse results, and measure impact for articles, journals and authors.
Scopus gives references to peer-reviewed literature in all subject areas. It includes journal articles (including 'in press' items), books, conference proceedings and patents.

It is possible to search for topics, authors (including by ORCID ID), author affiliation and funders.

Extensive analytical tools also allow you to:

-analyse your search results by year, source, author, affiliation, country or territory, document type and subject area
-compare journal impact to help you decide where to publish
-see the citation impact and scholarly community engagement for an article
-analyse the citation trend for any given article, set of results or for a list of author documents
-view an author profile to analyse and track an individual's citation history

Help and guidance
Scopus Quick Reference Guide (PDF)
Tutorial of creating alerts
Scopus learn & support site

Other useful resources

Art Discovery Group Catalogue
virtual catalogue for art history

ArticleFirst This link opens in a new window
Covers all subject areas from 1990 onwards, giving references to journal articles. You can browse specific journal issues to keep up-to-date with articles published in journals of interest.
Box of Broadcasts [video & audio] This link opens in a new window
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) is a collection of TV and radio programmes from free-to-air channels. Set new recordings and playback programmes already recorded. Content back to 1990s.
Record and view TV and radio programmes from over 75 free-to-airchannels and access an archive of over 2 million programmes from the 1990s to the present day. Includes content from:
- BBC TV and radio
- ITV
- Channel 4
- Film4
- Sky Arts
-1 0 foreign language channels (Italian, French and German)
- BBC Shakespeare Archive content dating back to the 1950s

Use tools within BoB to create innovative and engaging learning materials to support teaching and learning;
- Create playlists, clips and clip compilations
- Embed content in BlackBoard and use in lectures
- Find programmes and clips on your topic by searching across programme transcripts and subtitles

How you may use the content

Permitted:
- lecture presentations
- Blackboard
- Create clips
- Embed in student coursework - provided it is within BlackBoard

Tip! Acknowledge the source and title of the programme and the ERA licensing scheme - see text under each video on BoB.

Not permitted:
- using BoB from outside the UK
- downloading or copying the videos - they are for streaming only
- publicly available websites
- public display in University
- any alteration, adaption or modification of the video or audio (except creating clips)
- promotional materials

Help and guidance
BoB video tutorials - including videos on using embed codes and using BoB videos in PowerPoint

Have a look at the BoB Frequently Asked Questions

Recommended browsers for BoB are Internet Explorer 11, Edge 12, Mozilla Firefox 44, Safari 8, Google Chrome 48 - or later versions of any of these browsers.

How to embed BoB videos in BlackBoard [PDF]

Tip! Each clip has a citation which you can copy.
British Academy Scholarship Online [full-text] This link opens in a new window
The full-text of over 140 titles, both monographs and essay collections, in the humanities and social sciences, hosted on the Oxford Academic platform.
Updated annually with new content.

Most titles are listed on the Library catalogue

Help and guidance
Using the content guides
British History Online [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Contains primary and secondary sources about Britain and Ireland from 1100 to the mid-20th century, with a particular focus between 1300 and 1800. Includes Parliament Rolls of Medieval England and various calendars (summaries of documents in chronological order), including the Calendar of Border Papers and the Calendar of State Papers.
Also contains various calendars (summaries of documents in chronological order), including the Calendar of Border Papers and the Calendar of State Papers.

Help and guidance
Using British History Online- guidance on searching and using information within the database
European Views of the Americas 1493-1750 This link opens in a new window
This bibliographic database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples.
This bibliographic database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples.

A wide range of subject areas are covered, from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery.

Help and guidance
EBSCOhost user guide
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar is the academic version of Google. It allows you to search for scholarly literature (journal articles, books, patents) from a variety of sources, including academic publishers, professional societies, and online repositories.
It is unclear which publishers are included in Google Scholar, so it shouldn't be used as your only source for a comprehensive literature search. For references to reliable, academic sources search our Summon discovery service or databases covering your subject.

Link to our full-text
You can set your preferences on Google Scholar to show links to full-text articles in all of our e-journals.

1) Click on the three lines on the top left of the home screen.
2) Select 'Settings'.
3) Select 'Library Links' on the left of the screen.
4) In the search box type 'Reading' and select the 'Reading University Library - Full-Text @ Reading' option.
5) Save your settings.

When you do a search, look for a 'Full-Text @ Reading' link to the right of references in your results list. This indicates that we have a subscription which will give you access to the article. Click on this link to access the full-text.

If the 'Full-text @ Reading' link does not appear next to a reference it indicates that it isn't covered by our subscriptions and you probably won't be able to access the article.

If you are off-campus you will need to login to access the articles. You will usually be prompted to login as soon as you click on the link to the article. If this doesn't happen you will need to look for an institutional or Shibboleth login link once you reach the journal's website. For more guidance see Accessing e-journals.

Google Scholar Button
Google have produced a plugin for Chrome, Firefox and Safari which allows you to easily search for and cite articles. Highlight the title of an article in the page you are reading and then click the Scholar button and it will search for the article on Google Scholar in a pop up window. To get a formatted reference for a search result press the quote button next to it and the reference will appear in three different styles.

To make the most of this tool set up the University of Reading as a 'Library Link' using the instructions above.
IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences) This link opens in a new window
Gives references to journal articles, books, reviews and selected chapters in the social sciences, including anthropology, economics, history, political science and sociology. Provides good coverage of international material.
Also covers related subjects, such as: agriculture, social policy, archaeology, business studies, criminology, education, environmental issues, history, law, and social work.

Gives references to journal articles, books, reviews and selected chapters. Good coverage of international material.

Help and guidance
ProQuest LibGuide: IBSS
Iter Gateway to the Middle Ages & Renaissance This link opens in a new window
Our subscription provides access to two databases:
Iter Bibliography - which gives references to journal articles and essays on topics about the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, 400-1700 and the Bibliography of English Women Writers (1500-1640).
Links to the individual resources within Iter Gateway - University username and password required:

Link to Iter Bibliography - which gives references to journal articles and essays on topics about the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, 400-1700
Link to the Bibliography of Women Writers (1500-1640)
Link to Renaissance and Reformation - Full-text journal
Link to Early Theatre - Full-text journal
Link to Reed Newsletter (1976-1977)

The following freely available resources are also available: Aestimatio; Disreputable Bodies: Magic, Medicine, and Gender in Renaissance Natural Philosophy; Baptisteria Sacra Index; Medici Archive Project; Romeo and Juliet: Searchable Database for Prompt Books; and The Electronic Capito Project.
Kanopy [video] This link opens in a new window
Access to thousands of films for the arts & humanities.
Use the Browse feature to search by subject or genre, or the search bar at the top of the page to look for a film by title.

Help and guidance
Help using the Kanopy site

How you may use the content
You may only use the content for educational purposes.

Permitted
-lecture presentations
-creating clips and playlists
-embedding clips or films in BlackBoard
-embedding in student coursework

Not permitted
-downloading or copying the videos - they are for streaming only
-public display in the University
-any alteration, adaption or modification of the video or audio (except creating clips)
Manchesterhive [full-text] This link opens in a new window
E-books published by Manchester University Press. Includes the following collections: Manchester History of Medicine; Manchester Medieval Sources; Manchester Shakespeare.
We have access to the following collections, plus open access content, on Manchesterhive. If you want to limit your search result to just these collections, select the 'User-accessible content' option on the left of the screen. The links below will take you directly to each collection.

- Manchester History of Medicine - Forty e-books covering all aspects of health, illness and medicine from prehistory to the present, in every part of the world.
- Manchester Medieval Sources - The online version of the Manchester University Press Medieval Sources series which aims to provide translations of key social and political sources. Contains extensive introductory material and primary source accounts of the Medieval world.
- Manchester Shakespeare - Forty-nine e-books covering historical, social and cultural critiques of Shakespeare’s works, plus the works of his contemporaries.

All titles in these collections are listed on the Library catalogue.
MLA (Modern Language Association International Bibliography) This link opens in a new window
References to publications covering literature, language, linguistics and folklore worldwide.
MLA (Modern Language Association International Bibliography) covers literature, language, linguistics and folklore worldwide.

Gives references to journal articles, monographs, working papers, conference proceedings, indexes and bibliographies, etc.

Covers 1884-. Hosted on the EBSCO platform.

Help and guidance
EBSCOhost user guide
Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Online archive giving access to full-text journal articles in many subjects across the humanities and social sciences, including history; coverage from 1891 to 2000.
Content also available via JISC Journal Archives.

Online archive giving access to full-text journal articles in the following subjects: arts; business; history; linguistics; literature; philosophy; politics; psychology; and social sciences.

Covers issues from 1891 to 2000.

Help and guidance
Proquest LibGuide: Periodicals Archive Online

RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects)
Information and articles about architects, architecture and projects. Includes links to their Library and bookshop.

Routledge Historical Resources: History of Feminism [full-text] This link opens in a new window
This resource provides materials on feminism (covering the period 1776-1928) published by Taylor & Francis. It includes primary and secondary sources, such as full books, selected chapters, and journal articles, as well as thematic essays.
Help and guidance
Take a tour of Routledge Historical Resources: History of Feminism
Sage Research Methods [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Access to over 1000 books and reference works in the field of research and methodology, designed to help researchers in every step of the process.
We have access to the Core collection of books and reference works.

Individual titles are listed on the Library catalogue.
Social Sciences Citation Index This link opens in a new window
Gives references to journal articles in the social sciences. Part of the Web of Science Core Collection.
Includes: Anthropology; History; Industrial relations; Law ; Linguistics; Philosophy; Political science ; Psychology and psychiatry; Public health; Social issues; Social work; Sociology; Urban studies; Women's studies.

Help and guidance
Web of Science Training Portal
Translated Texts for Historians E-Library [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Full-text digital editions of the Translated Texts for Historians series (Liverpool University Press), which makes available historical sources from A.D. 300–800, translated into English.

To access the Translated Texts for Historians series, click on the 'My Library' tab when you reach the homepage, and you will find the resources under my books.
Individual titles are listed on Enterprise.
U.K. Parliamentary Papers [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Historic House of Commons Parliamentary Papers including Command Papers; Accounts; Bills; Hansard; Reports of Committees; and Reports of Commissioners. There are also older papers from the House of Lords.
Full-text of House of Commons Parliamentary Papers 1715-2004. Other collections of Bills/Acts, Debates, Journals, and House of Lords Papers are included for the period 1688-1834.

The 18th century papers were formerly available via the 18th Century Official Parliamentary Publications Portal 1688-1834.

Help and guidance
Basic and more advanced help is provided on the U.K. Parliamentary Papers LibGuide.
Who's who & Who Was Who [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Contains autobiographical listings of people from around the globe who have had an impact on British life.
Who’s Who
A collection of 33,000 short biographies, continually updated, of important individuals alive today. Approximately 1,000 new entries are added each year.

Who Was Who
An archive of 80,000 entries from Who’s Who since 1898 of deceased persons, including 10,000 listed in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Help and guidance
Who's Who help
WorldCat This link opens in a new window
A union catalogue which searches across multiple worldwide library catalogues in one search. It contains the descriptions of over 170 million books, theses, pamphlets, music, sound recordings, maps, audio-visual material, computer software, internet resources, etc.
Covers ca.1000 BC to the present.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
References to publications covering political science and international relations, including international law and public administration/policy. Includes journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and working papers. Covers 1975 to the present.
Help and guidance
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts guide

Videos: doing your literature search

This playlist of two videos shows you how to prepare for and perform a literature search. The first video introduces literature searches and their role. The second video covers using the search operators AND and OR to create a search statement, and explains the role of wildcards and truncation in constructing a comprehensive search. This information is also available in written guides - see the links below.

Related guides

Literature searching
A guide to finding articles, books and other materials on your subject
Guide to searching databases

Online primary source material - subscribed content

Academic Video Online on Alexander Street [video] This link opens in a new window
Video material including documentaries, interviews, performances, news programmes and newsreels covering a variety of events and themes.
We also have access to Academic Video Online on ProQuest

Academic Video Online is a comprehensive source of video material including 70,000 titles with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programmes, newsreels and more. Use the Alexander Street link for the best browsing experience.

Academic Video Online comprises some of the following channels:

-60 Minutes: 1997-2014
-American History
-Black Studies
-LGBT Studies
-The March of Time
-World History
-World Newsreels Online 1929-1966

Some of subjects covered are:

-Art & Architecture
-Criminal Justice & Public Safety
-Drama
-Education
-Engineering
-Environmental Studies
-History
-Literature
-Politics & Current Affairs
-Psychology
-Science
-Theatre

Help and guidance
Alexander Street Press resources help

How you may use the content
Permitted

-lecture presentations
-Blackboard - embed the video in your module or link to it
-student work

Tip! You may make clips and playlists with the videos

Not permitted

-publicly available websites
-public display in University
-any alteration, adaption or modification the video
Archives Unbound This link opens in a new window
Archives Unbound contains more than 250 collections covering: African American studies; American Indian studies; Asian studies; British history; Holocaust studies; LGBTQ studies; Latin American and Caribbean studies; Middle East studies; political science; religious studies; and women’s studies.
Book History Online This link opens in a new window
Book History Online (BHO) is an international bibliography in the field of book and library history. Included are references to monographs, articles and reviews dealing with the history of the printed book.
Included are references to monographs, articles and reviews dealing with the history of the printed book, its arts, crafts, techniques and equipment, its economic, social and cultural environment, as well as its production, distribution, preservation and description.

Help and guidance
Search tips
British Library Newspapers [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Full-text of 48 national, regional, and local 19th century British newspapers reflecting the social and political developments of the time.
It also includes contextual essays regarding the role of newspapers in the Victorian age, bibliographic headnotes, and a chronological overview.

Covers 1800-1900.

Search this resource simultaneously with other archive collections on Gale Primary Sources.
British Periodicals [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Gives access to the searchable full-text of hundreds of periodicals from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries.
Covers the development of the periodical press in Britain and consists of almost 500 periodical runs and comprises six million keyword-searchable pages.
British Library Sounds [sound] This link opens in a new window
A database of over 50,000 sound recordings from the British Library Sound Archive.
You do not need to log in to listen to most recordings, but you will need to create an account with the British Library to download them or to access some restricted recordings.

You may use the sound recordings for teaching, learning and research - see below for more details of how you may use the content.

Access to over 50,000 sound recordings from the British Library Sound Archive. Covers:
- Accents and dialects
- Arts, literature, and performance
- Classical music
- Environment and nature
- Jazz and popular music
- Oral history
- Sound recording history
- World and traditional music

How you may use the content

Permitted:
- lecture presentations
- Blackboard
- student work
- segment recordings using audio editing tools

Not permitted:
- publicly available websites
- public display in University

Please note that some recordings are not available for download - for more information see the British Library Sounds - conditions of use.Help and guidance
British Library Sounds help page
British Literary Manuscripts Online [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Contains facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works in the Medieval and Renaissance periods.
Available in two parts, covering: the Medieval and Renaissance periods (c.1120-1660), and 1660-1900.

Information relating to each manuscript is fully searchable, although the text of the manuscripts themselves is not.

Help and guidance
Use the 'Help' link available once connected to this resource for guidance on searching and using your results.
Churchill Archive [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Digital collection of Winston Churchill's archive, containing more than 800,000 pages of original documents, produced between 1874 and 1965. The content ranges from Churchill's personal correspondence to his official exchanges with kings, presidents, politicians, and military leaders.
Help and guidance
Once logged into the site click on 'Take a Tour' for a video tutorial.
Daily Mail Historical Archive, The. 1896-2004 This link opens in a new window
The complete digital edition of the Daily Mail containing full facsimile images of specific articles or complete pages. Covers 1896 to 2004,
The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching. Covers 1896 to 2004, and also includes the Daily Mail Atlantic Edition from 1923 to 1931.

We also have access to Daily Mail content on Gale OneFile: News from 1996 to present.

Help and guidance
Once logged into the site click on 'Help' at the bottom of the page for comprehensive guidance.
Daily Mail, The. on Gale OneFile:News [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Features and articles from the Daily Mail. Covers 1996 to the present day.
We also have access to the Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2004 on Gale Primary Sources.

Help and guidance
Once logged in to the site click on 'Help' at the bottom of the page for comprehensive guidance.
Digimap This link opens in a new window
Map data of Great Britain. Includes Ordnance Survey, historic, geological and environmental map data and aerial imagery.

A two part registration is required to use Digimap:

1. Connect to Digimap using the link above and complete a registration form
2. Accept the licence agreements associated with each collection

Edina's Digimap registration pages give more information and guidance. Please pay particular attention to the Privacy Notice.
Please note: By accepting the licence you are agreeing to the terms and conditions listed in the End User Licence Agreement (EULA).

Map data of Great Britain comprising ten datasets:

-Ordnance Survey Digimap (including Scottish Improvement Service data)
-Historic Digimap
-Geology Digimap
-Marine Digimap
-Environment Digimap
-Aerial Digimap (including Lidar Digimap)
-Global Digimap
-Society Digimap
-Verisk Digimap (formerly Geomni)
-agCensus Digimap

Data can be downloaded to use with appropriate application software such as GIS or CAD, or as maps generated by Digimap online using the Roam facility.

Using Roam you can:

-View maps of any location in Great Britain at a series of predefined scales
-Print maps at a variety of scales and sizes
-Add your own annotations

Coverage details:

-Ordnance Survey Digimap offers MasterMap - the most detailed current map dataset
-Ordnance Survey Digimap includes Digital Terrain Model data for download.
-Ordnance Survey Digimap includes Scottish Improvement Service data, 37 datasets from Scottish local authorities, available for download only.
-Historic Digimap provides access to 1:10 560, 1:2500 and 1:1250 data from 1846-1996; two maps of the same area can be compared on screen at once.
-Geology Digimap provides access to bedrock and Quaternary geological maps at scales of 1:625 000, 1:250 000 and 1:50 000.
-Marine Digimap includes hydrographic charts and marine themes data
-Environment Digimap includes land cover data for 1997, 2000 and 2007 from the Centre of Ecology and Hydrology.
-Aerial Digimap includes aerial imagery in a single seamless coverage, captured since 2000, at 25 cm resolution.
-Aerial Digimap includes access to Lidar Digimap - download Lidar data for use in GIS and CAD applications.

More about Digimap

Help and guidance
Digimap help can be found in the Digimap Help Centre, including links to help you get started and help for GIS/CAD users. Digimap Help pages can be accessed without logging in to Digimap.
Guides, exercises and case studies can be found on the Digimap learning materials page
Short videos about aspects of using Digimap can be found at EDINA Digimap Youtube channel
For help and guidance on licensing and copyright see the Digimap copyright & licensing page.

Current awareness
To keep up to date with what is happening with Digimap, follow Digimap on Twitter or Facebook, or look at the Digimap Blog
Digital National Security Archive [full-text] This link opens in a new window
This resource gathers over 50 large collections of declassified government documents on US foreign and military policy from 1945 to the present day. It includes bibliographies, glossaries, chronologies and scholarly overviews.
Find out more about the DNSA collections

Help and guidance
ProQuest Guide to Digital National Security Archive
Economist Historical Archive, The. 1843-2020 This link opens in a new window
Access to older issues of The Economist. It covers every issue since its inception in1843 to 2020.
We also have access to The Economist content on The Economist platform from 1996 to present and on Gale OneFile: News from 1988 to 2020.

Help and guidance
Once logged in to the Archive click on the 'Help' link for comprehensive guidance.
Empire Online [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Empire Online provides access to manuscripts, printed, and visual primary and secondary source material for the study of Empire and colonialisation worldwide, spanning the last 500 years.
Document types include letters, journals, slave papers, and official Government papers. Also included are secondary resources, such as scholarly essays, maps, and an interactive chronology.

Help and guidance
Once connected, click on 'Help' for page-by-page guidance and FAQs.
ESTC (English Short Title Catalogue) This link opens in a new window
Descriptions of early books printed in Great Britain or any of its dependencies in any language, as well as materials printed in English anywhere else in the world.
Covers from the beginnings of print to 1800, including all recorded English monographs printed between 1475 and 1700.

Useful for anyone studying 15th-18th century British history or literature, the history of the book or the humanities in general.

Help and guidance
For search help, open the ESTC search page & then click on the link above the search box called 'Quick Tips - for this page'.
Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2016 This link opens in a new window
Online access to features and articles published in the Financial Times. Covers 1888-2016
We also have access to the Financial Times on ProQuest International Newsstream, covers 1996 to the present day.

Help and guidance
Once logged into the site click on 'Help' at the bottom of the page for comprehensive guidance.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the globe, translated into English.
FBIS Daily reports cover the following regions and dates:

-Middle East and North Africa, 1974–1987
-Near East and South Asia, 1987–1996
-South Asia, 1980–1987
-Sub-Saharan Africa, 1974–1980 and Africa, 1987–1996
-Eastern Europe, 1974–1996

Help and guidance
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports help
Gale NewsVault [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Primary source content from a range of Gale's historical newspaper and periodical collections, allowing you to search simultaneously across various resources.
The following databases are included in the search facility:

- Daily Mail Digital Archive
- The Economist Historical Archive
- Financial Times Historical Archive
- The Independent Digital Archive
- Punch Historical Archive
- The Times & The Sunday Times Digital Archives
- The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive

Help and guidance
Once logged in to Gale Newsvault click on the 'Help' link for comprehensive guidance on using this resource.
Gale Primary Sources [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Use this resource to search across Gale's archival primary source content from a range of newspapers and journals.
The following databases are included in the search facility:

-Archives Unbound
-British Library Newspapers
-Daily Mail Historical Archive
-The Economist Historical Archive
-Financial Times Historical Archive
-The Independent Digital Archive
-International Herald Tribune Historical Archive
-Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals
-Picture Post Historical Archive
-Political Extremism and Radicalism
-Punch Historical Archive
-Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Collection
-The Telegraph Historical Archive
-The Times Digital Archive
-The Sunday Times Digital Archive
-The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
Guardian, The and Observer, The, on ProQuest Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
The complete digital edition of The Guardian and The Observer containing full facsimile images of specific articles or complete pages. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching. The Guardian covers 1821-2003, and The Observer covers 1791-2003.
We also have current access to the Guardian on Lexis Library, Gale OneFile: News and ProQuest International Newsstream.
As well as current access to the Observer on the following platform- Lexis Library, Gale OneFile: News and ProQuest International Newsstream.

Help and guidance
A ProQuest LibGuide is available for the ProQuest Historical Newspapers database.
Guardian, The, on ProQuest International Newsstream This link opens in a new window
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper covering the latest news, sport, business, comment and analysis. Includes print and online content. Covers August 1992 to the present day.
We also have access to The Guardian on Gale OneFile: News from 1990 to the present day and on the Lexis Library from 1984 to the present day.
Independent Historical Archive, The. This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to The Independent Historical Archive from 1986 to 2016.
We also have access to The Independent on Gale OneFile: News from 2004 to the present day.

Help and guidance
Once logged into the site click on 'Help' at the bottom of the page for comprehensive guidance.
Independent The, on Gale OneFile: News [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to The Independent from 2004 to the present day.
We also have access to The Independent Historical Archive on Gale Primary Sources from 1986 to 2016.

Help and guidance
Once logged in to the site click on 'Help' at the bottom of the page for comprehensive guidance.
International Herald Tribune Historical Archive, 1887-2013 This link opens in a new window
Archive of this important international newspaper, known for its objective and clear coverage. It covers 1887 to 2013.
Search this resource simultaneously with other archive collections on Gale Primary Sources.

Help and guidance
Once logged in to the Archive click on the 'Help' link for comprehensive guidance.
John Johnson Collection: an archive of printed ephemera [images] This link opens in a new window
This archive contains digitised documents, from Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including posters and handbills for theatrical and non-theatrical entertainments, broadsides relating to murders and executions, book and journal prospectuses, popular topographical prints, and a wealth of different kinds of printed advertising material.
This archive of printed ephemera contains digitised documents, including posters and handbills for theatrical and non-theatrical entertainments, broadsides relating to murders and executions, book and journal prospectuses, popular topographical prints, and a wealth of different kinds of printed advertising material.

The material covers 5 different categories: nineteenth century entertainment; the book trade; popular prints; crime; murder and execution; and advertising .

On completion of the project there will be 65,000 digitised documents.

The original collection is held by the Bodleian Library. Information about the Bodleian's John Johnson Collection
London Broadcasting Company / Independent Radio News audio archive [sound] This link opens in a new window
Audio files of recordings relating to news and current affairs from 1973 to the mid-1990s.
The London Broadcasting Company / Independent Radio News audio archive consists of approximately 80,000 individual audio files of recordings relating to news and current affairs from 1973 to the mid-1990s. These clips have been digitised from the 7000 hours of reel-to-reel tapes in the full archive collection as part of a JISC funded programme. Recordings are from a wide range of broadcasts, including coverage of the Falklands war, the miners' strike, Northern Ireland, the whole of the Thatcher period of government and recordings of the first hour of UK commercial radio including the first commercial radio news bulletin.

How you may use this content
Members of the University are allowed to listen to the audio clips online and download them to use in teaching and learning.

Permitted

-lecture presentations
-blackboard - Tip! You may only link to the audio on the LBC/IRN website, do not download and embed the audio
-student work

Not permitted

-publicly available websites
-public display in University
Mass Observation Online [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Mass Observation Online gives an insight into everyday life in Britain from 1937 until the mid-1950s. It contains original manuscript and typescript papers created and collected by the Mass Observation organisation, as well as printed publications, photographs and interactive features.
Help and guidance
Once connected, click on 'Help' for page-by-page guidance and FAQs.
Migration to New Worlds [full-text & video] This link opens in a new window
Primary source material covering the movement of peoples from Great Britain, Ireland, mainland Europe and Asia to the New World and Australasia. Mostly covers 1800 to 1924. Includes letter collections, travel journals, diaries and oral histories from migrants.
We have access to the module covering 1800 to 1924, otherwise known as the ‘Century of Immigration’. It covers all aspects of the migration experience, from departures to arrival and permanent settlement. It also includes early material such as the first emigration ‘round robin’ from 1621 and letters from late eighteenth century merchants and travellers in the United States. Some later material is also available, including ocean liner and immigration depot photographs from the mid-twentieth century.

Migration to New Worlds includes letter collections, travel journals, diaries and oral histories from migrants. These are supplemented by scrapbooks, government papers, hand-drawn maps, watercolours, objects, emigration pamphlets, shipping papers and rare printed material which provide context to the history of migration, legislation and living conditions during this period.

Help and guidance
Help using Migration to New Worlds
Nineteenth Century Books from The British Library Collection [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Digitised versions of more than 65,000 first editions from the 19th century, covering philosophy, history, poetry and literature.
The collection extends to over 25 million pages of previously rare and inaccessible content, and includes the original typeface and illustrations for each book.
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Primary source content from nearly 100 full-text searchable periodicals. Titles cover women's writing and also chart the rapid rise of children's entertainment and education. Popular sports and hobbies are well covered as are satirical and comic titles.
Picture Post Historical Archive 1938-1957 [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Search across Picture Post from its first issue in 1938 to its last in 1957 to find full colour digitised versions of the originals.
Search this resource simultaneously with other archive collections on Gale Primary Sources.

Help and guidance
Once logged in to the Archive click on the 'Help' link for comprehensive guidance.
Political Extremism and Radicalism [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Political Extremism and Radicalism is a compilation of rare and unique archival collections covering a wide range of fringe political movements. It has been sourced from distinguished libraries and archives across the world. It covers both far-right and radical left political groups, from the 1900s to the 2010s.

We have access to Part 1: Far-Right and Left Political Groups in the U.S., Europe, and Australia in the Twentieth Century.
Political Extremism and Radicalism is a compilation of rare and unique archival collections from across the world, covering a wide range of fringe political movements from the 1900s to the 2010s. It comprises a diverse mixture of materials, including periodicals, campaign propaganda, government records, oral histories and various ephemera from both far-right and radical left political groups.

Search this resource simultaneously with other archive collections on Gale Primary Sources.

Help and guidance
Once logged into the site click on 'Help' at the bottom of the page for comprehensive guidance.
Punch Historical Archive 1841-1992 [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Provides access to all published volumes of Punch. This resources is particularly useful for 19th and 20th century political and social history.
It includes Almanacks and other special numbers, as well as prefaces, epilogues, indexes and other specially produced material from the bound volumes. Images originally published in full colour appear in full colour in the archive.

Help and guidance
Once logged into the site click on 'Help' at the bottom of the page for comprehensive guidance.
Routledge Historical Resources: History of Feminism [full-text] This link opens in a new window
This resource provides materials on feminism (covering the period 1776-1928) published by Taylor & Francis. It includes primary and secondary sources, such as full books, selected chapters, and journal articles, as well as thematic essays.
Help and guidance
Take a tour of Routledge Historical Resources: History of Feminism
Sunday Times Historical Archive, The, 1822-2016 This link opens in a new window
The complete digital edition of The Sunday Times containing full facsimile images of specific articles or complete pages. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching. Covers 1822-2016.
We also have access to The Sunday Times on Lexis Library from 1985 to the present day.

Help and guidance
Once logged into the site click on 'Help' at the bottom of the page for comprehensive guidance.
The Telegraph Historical Archive [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Archive of this important British newspaper. Covers 1855-2016. Includes The Sunday Telegraph from 1961.
This archive can be searched simultaneously with other primary source archives on the Gale Primary Sources service.

Help and guidance
Once logged in to the Archive click on the 'Help' link for comprehensive guidance.
Times Historical Archive, The This link opens in a new window
The complete digital edition of The Times (London) containing full facsimile images of specific articles or complete pages. Covers 1785 to 2014
The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.

We also access to The Times on Lexis Library from 1985 to the present day.
Times, The on Lexis Library This link opens in a new window
Online access to features, articles and other information published in The Times. Covers 1985 to the present day.
Please search for "The Times" when you reach the platform or select it from the list of sources.
We also have access to the Times Digital Archive on Gale Primary Sources from 1785 to 2014.

Help and guidance
For comprehensive guidance see the LexisLibrary support site which includes training videos, tips and user guides.
A range of training videos are available on the LexisNexis Resources YouTube channel.
Complete the LexisLibrary research certificate.
U.K. Parliamentary Papers [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Historic House of Commons Parliamentary Papers including Command Papers; Accounts; Bills; Hansard; Reports of Committees; and Reports of Commissioners. There are also older papers from the House of Lords.
Full-text of House of Commons Parliamentary Papers 1715-2004. Other collections of Bills/Acts, Debates, Journals, and House of Lords Papers are included for the period 1688-1834.

The 18th century papers were formerly available via the 18th Century Official Parliamentary Publications Portal 1688-1834.

Help and guidance
Basic and more advanced help is provided on the U.K. Parliamentary Papers LibGuide.
Washington Post, The, on ProQuest Historical Newspapers [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Covers the years 1877-2004. The complete digital edition, containing full facsimile images of specific articles or complete pages.
The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.
Wiley Digital Archives [full-text] This link opens in a new window
We have access to two collections: BAAS Collection and Royal College of Physicians Part I.

British Association for the Advancement of Science (Collections on the History of Science: 1830-1970) is part of the Wiley Digital Archives programme and was developed in collaboration with Jisc. It contains an aggregation of collections from the BAAS as well as archives contributed by a number of UK universities which are complementary to the BAAS collection. The British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) was founded in 1831 to promote the advancement of science in all its aspects. Its main aim was to improve the perception of science and scientists in the UK. In 2009, it was renamed The British Science Association.

The Royal College of Physicians Part I covers the years 1200-1862. The archive contains two million pages documenting seven centuries of medical history. The collections within the archive reflect the history and development of modern Western medicine, while documenting the interactions of the medical community with monarchs, politicians,and the general public. There is also a wealth of documents related to the establishment of medical practice standards
and medical education, as well as the formation of specialised fields of practice as we know them today. The RCP was founded in 1518 by King Henry VIII.

Help and guidance
Once logged into the site click on 'Tools' and 'Help and Training' for comprehensive guidance on using the Wiley Digital Archives platform.

British History Online [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Contains primary and secondary sources about Britain and Ireland from 1100 to the mid-20th century, with a particular focus between 1300 and 1800. Includes Parliament Rolls of Medieval England and various calendars (summaries of documents in chronological order), including the Calendar of Border Papers and the Calendar of State Papers.
Also contains various calendars (summaries of documents in chronological order), including the Calendar of Border Papers and the Calendar of State Papers.

Help and guidance
Using British History Online- guidance on searching and using information within the database
British Literary Manuscripts Online [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Contains facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works in the Medieval and Renaissance periods.
Available in two parts, covering: the Medieval and Renaissance periods (c.1120-1660), and 1660-1900.

Information relating to each manuscript is fully searchable, although the text of the manuscripts themselves is not.

Help and guidance
Use the 'Help' link available once connected to this resource for guidance on searching and using your results.
British Periodicals [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Gives access to the searchable full-text of hundreds of periodicals from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries.
Covers the development of the periodical press in Britain and consists of almost 500 periodical runs and comprises six million keyword-searchable pages.
ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online) [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Provides exact reproductions of over 150,000 significant English language and foreign language titles printed in the UK in the eighteenth century and many titles from the Americas. Covers all subjects, including history, geography, fine arts, medicine and literature.
Covers all subjects, including history, geography, fine arts, medicine and literature.

Contains several titles by women writers, collections on the French Revolution, and numerous eighteenth-century editions of the works of Shakespeare.

A key feature is the inclusion of the complete works of key authors of the period, including:

Henry Fielding
Edmund Burke
Alexander Pope
Thomas Paine
Benjamin Franklin
Jonathan Swift
Covers 1700-1799
EEBO (Early English Books Online) [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Full-text early English books (1473-1700). Includes works by Malory, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, Galileo, musical exercises by Henry Purcell, novels by Aphra Behn, prayer books, pamphlets, proclamations, almanacs, calendars and many other primary sources.
From the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War. Includes:

works by Malory, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, Galileo
musical exercises by Henry Purcell
novels by Aphra Behn
prayer books, pamphlets, and proclamations; almanacs, calendars, and many other primary sources.
It will contain over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661).

Help and guidance
EEBO support
Electronic Enlightenment [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Electronic Enlightenment provides access to an extensive online collection of correspondence of the early modern period, from across Europe, the Americas and Asia. Search or browse over 60,000 letters and documents, from the early 17th to the mid-19th century, in 11 languages including English, French, German and Italian.
Search or browse over 60,000 letters and documents, from the early 17th to the mid-19th century, in 11 languages including English, French, German and Italian.

Help and guidance
Help using Electronic Enlightenment
Empire Online [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Empire Online provides access to manuscripts, printed, and visual primary and secondary source material for the study of Empire and colonialisation worldwide, spanning the last 500 years.
Document types include letters, journals, slave papers, and official Government papers. Also included are secondary resources, such as scholarly essays, maps, and an interactive chronology.

Help and guidance
Once connected, click on 'Help' for page-by-page guidance and FAQs.
ESTC (English Short Title Catalogue) This link opens in a new window
Descriptions of early books printed in Great Britain or any of its dependencies in any language, as well as materials printed in English anywhere else in the world.
Covers from the beginnings of print to 1800, including all recorded English monographs printed between 1475 and 1700.

Useful for anyone studying 15th-18th century British history or literature, the history of the book or the humanities in general.

Help and guidance
For search help, open the ESTC search page & then click on the link above the search box called 'Quick Tips - for this page'.
European Views of the Americas 1493-1750 This link opens in a new window
References for printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.
This bibliographic database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples.

A wide range of subject areas are covered, from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery.

Help and guidance
EBSCOhost user guide
Historical Texts [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Contains the full text or page images of over 350,000 books published in England before 1900. Includes ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online), EEBO (Early English Books Online), and Nineteenth Century Books from the British Library Collection.
Help and guidance
Historical Texts Support
Perdita Manuscripts [full-text] This link opens in a new window
The full-text facsimile reproductions of little known material from archives across the UK. Some of the women featured include Sarah Cowper, Mary Evelyn and Katherine Philips. The content of the manuscripts is varied and includes letters, biography, drama, notebooks, sermon notes, travel writing and much more.
The Perdita Manuscripts consist of the writings of women from the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Their writings were 'lost' because they exist only in manuscript form.

Help and guidance
Once connected, click on 'Help' for page-by-page guidance and FAQs. You can also use the 'Searching Aid' button to look for specific people or places.
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Collection [full-text] This link opens in a new window
This collection includes more than 1000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the 17th and 18th Century. It covers the years 1600-1800 and includes material from England, Ireland, Scotland and some papers from British colonies in the Americas and Asia.

Search this resource simultaneously with other archive collections on Gale Primary Sources.
Gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817), this is the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media available from the British Library. You can conduct full-text searches of nearly 1 million pages – some 1,270 titles.
U.K. Parliamentary Papers [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Historic House of Commons Parliamentary Papers including Command Papers; Accounts; Bills; Hansard; Reports of Committees; and Reports of Commissioners. There are also older papers from the House of Lords.
Full-text of House of Commons Parliamentary Papers 1715-2004. Other collections of Bills/Acts, Debates, Journals, and House of Lords Papers are included for the period 1688-1834.

The 18th century papers were formerly available via the 18th Century Official Parliamentary Publications Portal 1688-1834.

Help and guidance
Basic and more advanced help is provided on the U.K. Parliamentary Papers LibGuide.
Wiley Digital Archives [full-text] This link opens in a new window
We have access to two collections: BAAS Collection and Royal College of Physicians Part I.

British Association for the Advancement of Science (Collections on the History of Science: 1830-1970) is part of the Wiley Digital Archives programme and was developed in collaboration with Jisc. It contains an aggregation of collections from the BAAS as well as archives contributed by a number of UK universities which are complementary to the BAAS collection. The British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) was founded in 1831 to promote the advancement of science in all its aspects. Its main aim was to improve the perception of science and scientists in the UK. In 2009, it was renamed The British Science Association.

The Royal College of Physicians Part I covers the years 1200-1862. The archive contains two million pages documenting seven centuries of medical history. The collections within the archive reflect the history and development of modern Western medicine, while documenting the interactions of the medical community with monarchs, politicians,and the general public. There is also a wealth of documents related to the establishment of medical practice standards
and medical education, as well as the formation of specialised fields of practice as we know them today. The RCP was founded in 1518 by King Henry VIII.

Help and guidance
Once logged into the site click on 'Tools' and 'Help and Training' for comprehensive guidance on using the Wiley Digital Archives platform.

British History Online [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Contains primary and secondary sources about Britain and Ireland from 1100 to the mid-20th century, with a particular focus between 1300 and 1800. Includes Parliament Rolls of Medieval England and various calendars (summaries of documents in chronological order), including the Calendar of Border Papers and the Calendar of State Papers.
Also contains various calendars (summaries of documents in chronological order), including the Calendar of Border Papers and the Calendar of State Papers.

Help and guidance
Using British History Online- guidance on searching and using information within the database
British Literary Manuscripts Online [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Contains facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works in the Medieval and Renaissance periods.
Available in two parts, covering: the Medieval and Renaissance periods (c.1120-1660), and 1660-1900.

Information relating to each manuscript is fully searchable, although the text of the manuscripts themselves is not.

Help and guidance
Use the 'Help' link available once connected to this resource for guidance on searching and using your results.
EEBO (Early English Books Online) [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Full-text early English books (1473-1700). Includes works by Malory, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, Galileo, musical exercises by Henry Purcell, novels by Aphra Behn, prayer books, pamphlets, proclamations, almanacs, calendars and many other primary sources.
From the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War. Includes:

works by Malory, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, Galileo
musical exercises by Henry Purcell
novels by Aphra Behn
prayer books, pamphlets, and proclamations; almanacs, calendars, and many other primary sources.
It will contain over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661).

Help and guidance
EEBO support
Early European Books [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Full-text early European books from 1450–1700. Early European Books builds upon and complements EEBO (Early English Books Online) by providing access to almost 25,000 works printed in Europe before 1701.
Full-text early European books from 1450–1700.

Early European Books builds upon and complements EEBO (Early English Books Online) by providing access to almost 25,000 works printed in Europe before 1701. It offers full-colour, high-resolution (400 ppi) facsimile images scanned directly from the original printed sources. Each item in the collection is captured in its entirety, complete with its binding, edges, endpapers, blank pages, and any loose inserts.

Content includes collections from the following libraries:

- Det Kongelige Bibliotek (Royal Library, Copenhagen)
- Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (National Central Library of Florence, Italy)
- Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands)
- The Wellcome Library, London
- Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France)

Help and guidance
Early European Books support
Historical Texts [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Contains the full text or page images of over 350,000 books published in England before 1900. Includes ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online), EEBO (Early English Books Online), and Nineteenth Century Books from the British Library Collection.
Help and guidance
Historical Texts Support
Manchesterhive [full-text] This link opens in a new window
E-books published by Manchester University Press. Includes the following collections: Manchester History of Medicine; Manchester Medieval Sources; Manchester Shakespeare.
We have access to the following collections, plus open access content, on Manchesterhive. If you want to limit your search result to just these collections, select the 'User-accessible content' option on the left of the screen. The links below will take you directly to each collection.

- Manchester History of Medicine - Forty e-books covering all aspects of health, illness and medicine from prehistory to the present, in every part of the world.
- Manchester Medieval Sources - The online version of the Manchester University Press Medieval Sources series which aims to provide translations of key social and political sources. Contains extensive introductory material and primary source accounts of the Medieval world.
- Manchester Shakespeare - Forty-nine e-books covering historical, social and cultural critiques of Shakespeare’s works, plus the works of his contemporaries.

All titles in these collections are listed on the Library catalogue.
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Full-text and translation of the meetings of the English Parliament from Edward I to Henry VII, covering the years from 1272 to 1504.
This database contains the full-text and translation of the meetings of the English Parliament from Edward I to Henry VII, covering the years from 1272 to 1504.

All surviving records of the Parliaments, including many texts never before published, are given in full, with new scholarly introductions to each Parliament. The Parliament rolls themselves are freshly transcribed from the original documents, while the transcripts incorporate precise information about the text in the documents (e.g., deleted and unreadable text) never before available.

Help and guidance
Help using Parliament Rolls - although the help mentions the CD-ROM version, it is also applicable to the web version of this resource.
Translated Texts for Historians E-Library [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Full-text digital editions of the Translated Texts for Historians series (Liverpool University Press), which makes available historical sources from A.D. 300–800, translated into English.

To access the Translated Texts for Historians series, click on the 'My Library' tab when you reach the homepage, and you will find the resources under my books.
Individual titles are listed on Enterprise.
Wiley Digital Archives [full-text] This link opens in a new window
We have access to two collections: BAAS Collection and Royal College of Physicians Part I.

British Association for the Advancement of Science (Collections on the History of Science: 1830-1970) is part of the Wiley Digital Archives programme and was developed in collaboration with Jisc. It contains an aggregation of collections from the BAAS as well as archives contributed by a number of UK universities which are complementary to the BAAS collection. The British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) was founded in 1831 to promote the advancement of science in all its aspects. Its main aim was to improve the perception of science and scientists in the UK. In 2009, it was renamed The British Science Association.

The Royal College of Physicians Part I covers the years 1200-1862. The archive contains two million pages documenting seven centuries of medical history. The collections within the archive reflect the history and development of modern Western medicine, while documenting the interactions of the medical community with monarchs, politicians,and the general public. There is also a wealth of documents related to the establishment of medical practice standards
and medical education, as well as the formation of specialised fields of practice as we know them today. The RCP was founded in 1518 by King Henry VIII.

Help and guidance
Once logged into the site click on 'Tools' and 'Help and Training' for comprehensive guidance on using the Wiley Digital Archives platform.

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For any that require a login, see the Off-campus tab.

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