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Getting Started
Not sure where to start?
Have a look at our How To... page for our three part tutorial on getting started with your research. The Starting Your Research tutorial is tailored to your School/Department.
You will also find guidance on searching Library databases, provided by some of our database providers.
For the period from the 17th century to the 21st, the Library has numerous resources. The most wide ranging of these is Gale Primary Sources, but other more specific archives such as the New York Times and UK Parliamentary Papers are also available.
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Gale Primary SourcesA cross-searchable platform of eight databases containing searchable facsimile reproductions of newspapers, periodicals, books and ephemera from the 17th to 20th centuries, including digital archives of the Illustrated London News, the Listener, Times & Times Literary Supplement (TLS).
The following databases are included in the Gale Primary Source platform.
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British Library NewspapersThe British Library’s archives of searchable facsimiles of regional and national newspapers from the 19th century.
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Eighteenth Century Collections OnlineFull text searching of millions of pages of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.
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Nineteenth Century Collections OnlinePrimary sources covering British politics, society, and culture, including theatre, music and literature.
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17th-18th Century Burney Collection NewspapersA unique collection of searchable facsimiles of English newspapers, pamphlets, acts of Parliament, and other early news publications from the 1600s and 1700s. Place of publication varies from London and the English provinces, to Scotland, Ireland, Europe, America and India.
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Illustrated London NewsA 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.
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Listener Historical ArchiveComplete, searchable digital archive of The Listener, the journal published by the BBC from 1929-1991.
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Times Digital ArchiveThe Times newspaper in facsimile from 1785 - 2014.
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TLS Historical ArchiveFull text of the Times Literary Supplement from 1902-2013.
Other resources
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British PeriodicalsPeriodicals from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century.
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Guardian (The) and The Observer (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)Historical local, regional and national UK news from 1791 - 2003.
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John Johnson CollectionArchive of printed ephemera covering everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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New York Times (The) with Index (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)Content from the New York Times (1851-2015) with index (1851-1993).
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UK Data Service: Census SupportUK Census Data from 1971, this site provides links to the relevant datasets (registration required).
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UK Parliamentary PapersSessional papers from 1715 to the present, with supplementary material back to 1688.
Click here for off-campus access
Hundreds of historical journals are available in the following digitized collections.
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Academic Search PremierFull text journals and abstracts in a range of academic disciplines.
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Bibliography of British & Irish HistoryHistory of the British Isles, British Empire and Commonwealth, from 55 BC to the present.
Click here for off-campus access.
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Cambridge CoreAccess to thousands of e-books from Cambridge University Press in a range of disciplines including science, medicine, humanities, social sciences, economics, history, law, politics and international relations.
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Humanities IndexContains 400 internationally respected humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK.
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JSTOR eBooksHundreds of full text journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences and life sciences.
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Open Library of HumanitiesA range of open access journals in the Humanities.
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Oxford Journals ArchiveContents of 142 Oxford University Press Journals from their first issue to 1995.
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Periodicals Archive OnlineAn archive of hundreds of digitised journals in the arts, humanities and social sciences. covering scholarly literature in the humanities and social sciences from 1802 to 2000.
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Project MuseJournal articles in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
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Web Of Science Core CollectionDatabase comprising Science, Social Science and Arts & Humanities citation indexes.
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Cambridge CompanionsIncludes the Companions in: Philosophy, Religion and Culture, Literature and the Classics and Music.
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Cambridge CoreAccess to thousands of e-books from Cambridge University Press in a range of disciplines including science, medicine, humanities, social sciences, economics, history, law, politics and international relations.
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Cambridge HistoriesAmerican and British history, economic and scientific history, philosophy, religious studies, theatre studies, warfare and literary studies.
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Digital Library of Classic Protestant TextsAn exhaustive resource for historians, theologians, political scientists, and sociologists studying the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries.
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Early English Books Online (EEBO)Digital facsimile images of virtually every work printed in English from 1473-1700, searchable by keyword.
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Early European BooksFacsimile images of books printed in Europe before 1701, searchable by keyword.
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Encyclopaedia Judaica 2007Overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel.
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English Historical DocumentsContains over 5,500 expertly indexed and fully searchable primary documents from 500-1914.
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Historical TextsHistorical Texts brings together three historically significant collections for the first time: Early English Books Online (EEBO), Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) and 65,000 texts from the British Library 19th Century collection.The UK Medical Heritage Library Collection is also available.
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2000.
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Oxford Handbooks OnlineThe 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.
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Oxford Reference OnlineThis collection of reference works allows cross searching of over 100 dictionaries and encyclopedias published by Oxford University Press.
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Who's Who and Who Was WhoThe leading source of up to date information about over 90,000 influential people from all walks of life, worldwide, who have left their mark on British public life.Who Was Who is an archive of people included in previous editions of Who's Who.
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ARTSTORA curated collection of over 2.5 million high quality images. The images are all copyright cleared for education and research so can be used in essays, presentations and other assignments. Each image has details of the creator, date, measurements and other useful information. If you set up an account on Artstor you can save images, create groups, and download content. You can even download images directly into PowerPoint presentations with all of the citation information added to the notes field. Images can be a valuable primary source for your studies, and provide additional context around your topic area.
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EuropeanaAccess to digitised books, music, and artworks from Europe's museums, libraries, and archives.
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John Johnson CollectionThe John Johnson Collection is widely recognised as one of the most important collections of printed ephemera in the world and generally regarded as the most significant single collection of ephemera in the UK. It contains of five different categories of information:
Nineteenth-Century Entertainment - which falls into two distinct groups: theatre material and non-theatrical entertainment material..
The Booktrade - examples include publishing material (e.g. prospectuses of books and journals) and bookplates.
Popular Prints - these items provide an invaluable record of locations and landscapes, architecture, popular tastes and appetites for artistic works and topography.
Crime, Murders, and Executions - a mixture of single sheets and pamphlets that afford unique insights into the judicial system and its punishments.
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KANOPYStreams thousands of films, documentaries and training videos across a wide range of subjects. Many films have captions, transcripts or subtitles and are compatible with technologies for visual impairment, such as JAWS. Please note, we do not have access to BBC productions via this service but BBC programmes may be available via Rob Roehampton.
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ROB RoehamptonA streaming and recording service that allows students and staff to record Freeview TV and radio programmes, as well as create clips and playlists. Users can access the growing archive of all recorded programmes, plus the BBC Digital and Shakespeare Archives.
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EThOSNational thesis service provided by the British Library which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK's doctoral theses.
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Open DissertationsEBSCO Open Dissertations is an online thesis and dissertation database with access to over 800,000 electronic theses and dissertations worldwide.
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Pure (Student Theses)Search for University of Roehampton student theses.
Foyle Special Collections & Archives
The University's Foyle Special Collections & Archives consist of rare books, original documents and artefacts which support various teaching and research areas of the University of Roehampton. The collections relate to Friedrich Froebel and the kindergarten, Froebel College, Children's Literature and the children’s book author Richmal Crompton, Dance, and to a number of other areas including Religious Studies.
The Library also subscribes to number of large archive collections that are not freely available online. These can be found on the other pages in this guide.
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Special Collections & ArchivesThe University's Special Collections & Archives homepage.
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Digital Archives & Research ResourcesThis pages contains links to useful archives and digital collections, e.g. The National Archives, The British Library Digital Collections, Archive Hub, etc.
It also contains a selection of digital content from the University's own collections, includes historical photographs, images of archival material as well as publication fragments (which can be made available to individuals upon request), and the Roehampton Digital Collections a freely available digital library of key texts for the Children's Literature Collection and the Froebel Archive for Childhood Studies.
Institute of Historical Research
IHR has compiled this useful list of free online resources.
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Institute of Classical Studies list of open access resourcesFrom individuals to publishers, a wealth of Classics content, from ancient language learning resources to journal access, museum databases to recordings of Greek drama, is becoming available to everyone, in addition to the digital resources already offered to ICS readers. This listing is a work in progress.
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