Library Resource Guide for: HISTORY (BRITISH)

Individual Databases for History (British)

Historical Abstracts  
1954-present; article abstracts and citations of books and dissertations on the history of the world from 1450 to the present. Excludes the U. S. and Canada.

Early English Books Online (EEBO)    
From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this collection now contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. Subjects include English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science.

English Short Title Catalog
The ESTC, English Short Title Catalog, is an in-process list of books published in all languages in Great Britain, and in English elsewhere, from 1475-1800. [This resource is publicly available.]

British Parliamentary Papers
1990-present; CD-ROM index to the sessional papers of the House of Commons and House of Lords, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, and the Journal of the House of Commons. (Available on Computer 2 in the Rockefeller computing cluster) (Rockefeller Library)

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography    
2004 edition; an illustrated collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2001.

Old Bailey Online
A full text database of the complete proceedings from London's central criminal court. Contains more than 100,000 trials dating from 1674 through 1834. Produced jointly by the University of Sheffield and the University of Hertfordshire.

Women Writers Online    
1400-1850; full text collection of writing by women in English with currently about 200 texts and growing. Includes a wide range of subjects and genres, and all texts are transcribed in full, including front and back matter.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online    
Current; a reference site for students and educators synthesizing editorially reviewed websites and the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

JSTOR    
Provides image and full text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each title.

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