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World history (excluding United States and Canada) from 1450 onwards; includes other subject areas presented from a historical perspective.

An index to journal articles, books and book chapters about British, Irish and Commonwealth history covering the period from 55 BC to the present.

Provides access to the Citation Indexes for: Science; Social Sciences; Arts & Humanities; Conference Proceedings and Books. Use for finding journal articles and conference papers. Databases can be searched simultaneously or select specific databases using the More Settings option.

Searchable digital archive collection of core scholarly journals, many starting with the first issue (some of which date from the 1800s). Stirling University has full-text access to the Collections: Arts & Sciences I, Arts & Sciences II, Arts & Sciences III, Biological Sciences Archive and Ireland Collection. We also have access to the 19th Century British Pamphlets collection.

Full text backfiles of international academic journals in the humanities and social sciences. Files run from the late 18th century to the late 20th century.

Project Muse provides full text access to a wide range of journals. We subscribe to the Humanities Collection only.

Covers 1962 to date. Abstracts from over 400 sources in the areas of literature, the arts, cinema, economics, history, current affairs, popular science, religion, music and architecture.

A bibliography of works printed in Europe which relate to the Americas before 1750.

Index to articles on medieval topics (300 - 1500 AD). Click on Enter databases, then select International Medieval Bibliography Online.

Full text of selected American magazines and journals from 1740 to 1900.

SocArXiv is a free open access archive for the social sciences. It holds working papers, preprints and published papers - some documents have links to data and code. (A pre-print is: "a manuscript draft that has not yet been subject to formal peer review, distributed to receive early feedback on research from peers").

Research repository of research produced by staff of the British Library and their partner organisations including: the British Museum, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), National Museums Scotland, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, and Tate

Tracks “social science” journals to continually list their latest papers. Covers Anthropology, Area Studies, Communication, Geography, History, Law, Political Science and Sociology.

Cross search online historical maps. Includes maps from the National Library of Scotland and the British Library.

Primary source material recounting various personal experiences of migration over the last 350 years, e.g. Colonial Office files on emigration, diaries and travel journals, ship logs and plans, printed literature, objects, watercolours, and oral histories.

Access to over 50 million digital resources from Europe's museums, archives, art galleries, libraries and audiovisual collections. Sources include the Louvre, the Rijksmuseum and the British Library.

An umbrella organisation for social science data archives across Europe. The CESSDA Catalogue provides access to research data from archives across Europe covering around 6000 studies distributed by members of the CESSDA European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC). The Catalogue enables users to locate datasets, as well as questions or variables within datasets. Data collections include sociological surveys, election studies, longitudinal studies, opinion polls, and census data from the European Social Survey, Eurobarometer and the International Social Survey Programme.

Archive of The Scotsman newspaper

Searchable online database of 1 million text and multimedia records from museums, galleries and archives. Use it to find images, sounds and movies relating to culture, history and science.

Explore the collections from Scotland's National Gallery, the Portrait Gallery, the Gallery of Modern Art and the Photograhpy Collection in Edinburgh. The online collection contains information about almost 2500 works of art with more being added to the site regularly.

Web version of the old (first) and new (second) Statistical Accounts of Scotland, first published in 1791-99 and 1845 respectively. Covers a wide range of topics: wealth, class and poverty; climate, agriculture, fishing and wildlife; population, schools and the moral health of the people. Keyword and phrase searching of the whole text is possible.

Searchable database containing the proceedings of the Scottish parliament from the first surviving act of 1235 to the union of 1707.

British Library Sounds presents 50,000 recordings and their associated documentation from the Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings which come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds.

Explore details of over 120,000 portraits from the sixteenth century to the present day.

Biographical dictionary containing information about the lives of people who have shaped the history of Britain.

Access to over 85,000 historic films covering the period 1896 - 1976. Playlists include sport, inventions, days that shook the world, war footage and fashion.

The British Cartoon Archive at the University of Kent contains more than 130,000 cartoons from 1904 onwards. Contains cartoons from the magazine Punch from the 1920s to 1990s. Search the catalogue to look for materials available online.

Digital archive of historic newspapers. British Library Newspapers 1600-1950 contains over 3 million pages of historic newspapers and newsbooks. This resource cross searches Nineteenth Century Newspapers, the Burney Collection and British Library Newspapers Parts 3, 4 and 5 (1732-1950).

Searches 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection, 19th Century UK Periodicals, British Library Newspapers, Financial Times Historical Archive, Sunday Times Digital Archive, Times Digital Archive, Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive

Searchable full text of The Times newspaper from 1785 to 2012. See also The Sunday Times archive

Archive of The Sunday Times from 1822 - 2006. See also The Times Digital Archive.

The Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2010, is the complete searchable facsimile run of the world's most authoritative daily business newspaper. Every article and advertisement ever printed in the paper can be searched and browsed individually and page by page. This is an essential, comprehensive and unbiased research tool for everyone studying public affairs, and economic and financial history of the last 120 years.

Full text of selected influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of 19th century British society. This resource can also be searched as part of the British Newspapers Collection.

Access to over 1 million newspaper pages, Acts of Parliament and pamphlets from the 17th and 18th centuries. The Burney Collection can also be searched as part of British Newspapers.

British Periodicals Online provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth century.

Access to the full text of over 180 periodicals from the nineteenth century.

Previously known as House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, now also includes House of Lords Papers. This is the major gateway to materials relating to parliamentary history of the United Kingdom. Includes full text of House of Commons Parliamentary Papers from 1801 - 2003/04. Covers Bills, House of Commons Papers, Command Papers, Reports of Committees and Commissions, and Accounts and Papers, but not Parliamentary debates. Also House of Lords papers from the 19th century.

Digitised historical Hansard reports for the Houses of Commons and Lords.
Hansard is now available as part of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers.

1066 - 1803. Includes a browsable list of volumes.

From 1066 to 1803

Offers a range of historical Ordnance Survey mapping data products from 1843 to 1996. A range of online tools are available to facilitate viewing, interrogation and download of these products.

Historic Books searches over 360,000 books. Use this to access to Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) and Early English Books Online (EEBO). Historic Books also provides access to nineteenth century books from the British Library.

This collection provides access to over 67,000 items selected from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, which will be of interest for anyone studying British social history. The collection offers unique insights into the changing nature of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Categories include nineteenth century entertainment, the booktrade, popular prints, crimes, murders and executions, and advertising.

Cross-searches a range of sources to find digital resources about British history in the period 1500 - 1900.

Primary sources for the study of the Medieval and Early Modern world, with particular strengths in British and colonial history

The 19th Century British Pamphlets Collection is a good primary source. You can do an advanced search and limit your search to pamphlets only.

Digitised versions of Queen Victoria's journals. 141 volumes are included covering the period 1832 to 1901.

Digitised documents and primary sources on the dismantling of the apartheid regime in southern Africa

Digital archive of resources relating to the life of Nelson Mandela

A great U.S. site for historians, exploiting source material in the Library of Congress.

Access to digitised versions of old newspapers from New York State. Comprehensive searching advice is available from the wesbite. Over 26 million newspaper pages are available.

Access to digitised versions of significant newspapers published in California between 1846 and 1922. The site contains over 6 million articles.

Part of a wider Texan history resource, use this to search almost 600 newspapers from Texas.

Access to historic (1860 - 1922) and recent (2009 - 2011) newspapers from Oregon.

Access to digitised versions of over 1.5 million pages of historic and contemporary newspapers from Florida. To search the site enter your search term and change the search box from "Full Citation" to "Full Text".

Historic newspapers from Kentucky can be searched as part of a wider digital library. Covers the period 1860 to 1922.

Access to all the historical newspapers published in Wyoming between 1849 and 1922.

Digitised newspapers from the Caribbean. To search the site for a topic enter a keyword and change the search option from "Full Citation" to "Full Text".