History

Full text journals and abstracts in a range of academic disciplines.

History of the British Isles, British Empire and Commonwealth, from 55 BC to the present.
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Access 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.

Contains 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.

Hundreds of full text journals and eBooks in the arts, humanities, social sciences and life sciences.

A range of open access journals in the Humanities.

Contents of 142 Oxford University Press Journals from their first issue to 1995.
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An 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.

Journal articles in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

Database comprising Science, Social Science and Arts & Humanities citation indexes.

Includes the Companions in: Philosophy, Religion and Culture, Literature and the Classics and Music.

Access 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.

American and British history, economic and scientific history, philosophy, religious studies, theatre studies, warfare and literary studies.

An exhaustive resource for historians, theologians, political scientists, and sociologists studying the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Digital facsimile images of virtually every work printed in English from 1473-1700, searchable by keyword.

Facsimile images of books printed in Europe before 1701, searchable by keyword.

Sets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World and reflects the great diversity of current scholarship. It includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth century and of Muslim minorities all over the world.

Overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel.

Contains over 5,500 expertly indexed and fully searchable primary documents from 500-1914.

50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2000.

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.

The 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.

A 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.
Artstor also provide curated guides on many disciplines e.g. Renaissance Studies. You can find them at: https://artstor.libguides.com/artstoracrossdisciplines.

Access to digitised books, music, and artworks from Europe's museums, libraries, and archives.

The 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.
Advertising - provide an invaluable insight into the development of consumerism.

Streams 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 Roehampton Online Broadcasts (ROB).

A streaming and recording service that allows students and staff to record Freeview TV and radio programmes, as well as create clips and playlists. You can access the growing archive of all recorded programmes, plus the BBC Digital and Shakespeare Archives.