Welcome to your Subject Guide, where you'll find tailored guidance and advice on key library resources.
Roehampton has strong collections of materials to support the study of children's literature, both in print and online. These include primary sources, historical and contemporary children's book collections, critical works and commentary, biography and autobiography of children's authors and illustrators and children's literature journals.
Reference, Handbooks & Companions
Profiles of nearly 20,000 Americans from all eras who have influenced and shaped the USA's history and culture. From missionaries to musicians, social workers to statisticians, cowboys to chemists, and Vikings to astronauts. Includes people from pre-colonial times to those who have died in the last 5 years.
Includes the Companions in: Philosophy, Religion and Culture, Literature and the Classics and Music.
American and British history, economic and scientific history, philosophy, religious studies, theatre studies, warfare and literary studies.
Includes biographies of every major author and illustrator and essays on all genres of children's literature, individual works and prominent trends and themes throughout the world.
50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2000.
A fully searchable online version of the Second print edition of the OED.
The Oxford Handbooks series brings together the world’s leading scholars to write articles that survey the current state of scholarship in their field. The articles review the key issues, reveal original arguments and concepts, and set the agenda for new research.
This collection of reference works allows cross searching of over 100 dictionaries and encyclopedias published by Oxford University Press.
Most print books for Children's Literature can be found on the Third Floor at classmarks 808 to 820 - see below for all location details. We also have some very special historical collections and archives in Children's Literature.
Ground floor |
Classmark |
Bibliographies of children’s books |
011.6 |
Books about children’s books (History, etc) |
028.52 |
First floor |
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School Experience Collection (SEC) |
P = Picture books IF = Infant Fiction JF = Junior Fiction ANT = Anthologies Junior Non-fiction – by subject classmark |
Second floor |
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Illustration and design of children’s books |
741.642 |
Third floor |
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Guides to writing children’s books |
808.068 |
Academic and reference works |
809.89282 |
Children’s literature in English (USA) |
810.99282 |
Children’s books in education |
820.7 |
Children’s literature in English (UK/Ireland) |
820.99282 |
Our Special Collections and Archives in Children's Literature include:
The Foyle Special Collections and Archives has a selection of digital content from its collections. This includes historical photographs, images of archival material as well as publication fragments (in addition to the Roehampton Digital Collections). The content can be made available to individuals upon request.
Specialist databases
Databases are large, searchable collections of academic materials. Some provide access to full-text journal articles, whilst others provide abstract or citation information about articles. The content of most databases is indexed in 'Search Everything' on UR Library Search, so you can find the articles there too; but for more advanced, precise search options you can go to the individual databases.
Provides access to full text journals, dissertations, ebooks, primary works, video and reference works. It offers an international and interdisciplinary perspective on literary topics with sources from all over the world. Also included are the ProQuest Black Writing Collection, and the World Literature Collection.
Access to Children's Literature Review is available for volumes 98 (2005) to 232 (2019).
Covers all levels of education, from early childhood to higher education, plus multilingual education, health education and testing
Journal articles, theses and conferences on education, mostly published in the USA but with good UK and international coverage.
Index of the Hockliffe Collection of British children's books published from 1685 to the mid-twentieth century, held at the University of Bedfordshire. Includes full text digital copies of many titles.
Hundreds of full text journals and eBooks in the arts, humanities, social sciences and life sciences.
Literature Criticism Online is the largest, most extensive compilation of literary commentary available. It includes scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals.
Provides access to over 60,000 free eBooks; also discoverable through UR Library Search.
Provides access to journal articles, eBooks and reviews in the humanities and social sciences. Spotlight on Project Muse blog post.
These databases provide digital archives of historical source material, from old books and newspaper articles to pamphlets and theatre playbills.
Read more about these resources in our Spotlight on Primary Sources blog post.
A cross-searchable platform of eight databases containing digital reproductions of newspapers, periodicals, books and ephemera from the 17th to 20th centuries, including archives of the Illustrated London News, the Listener, Times & Times Literary Supplement (TLS).
The British Library’s archives of searchable facsimiles of regional and national newspapers from the 19th century.
Periodicals from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century.
Full text searching of millions of pages of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.
Local, regional and national UK news archive from 1791 - 2003. Note: to access current issues, see Pressreader.
A digital archive of the world's first weekly illustrated newspaper from 1842 to 2003, providing contemporary accounts and images of significant British and world events.
Archive of printed ephemera covering everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Primary sources covering British politics, society, and culture, including theatre, music and literature.
Access to close to 100 periodicals for the study of British life in the 19th century - from women to sports and leisure, and from children to humour.
An archive of hundreds of digitized journals in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
The Times newspaper in facsimile from 1785 - 2019.
Other major collections catalogues and digitised collections