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New in August 2024: Our ProQuest subscription to Early English Books Online (EEBO) is now live and you can search EEBO together with Early European Books (which also contain English titles) via the Early Modern Books platform.
Reading Lists
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Got an assignment? Have you looked at the reading list to see lecturer recommendations? Always use your online reading lists first but when you want to search for books independently, you need the Library Catalogue.
To find print books:
Search the Library Catalogue (second search box on the page)
For each book, note the floor, number and letter code: SECOND FLOOR 940.2072 SAN - save time by taking a photo of these details!
To find ebooks:
Search the Library Catalogue (second search box on the page)
Filter your search on the left hand side to 'Electronic Books'.
Click on the title of the ebook to load the full record, then use 'Online access' to view.
Top e-book packages you can search:
This package contains lots of e-books we have bought specially for UoP History courses.
fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery
No other resource for early modern scholarship is as comprehensive as Early English Books Online (EEBO) with over 146,600 titles and associated bibliographic records. Users can explore complete, digitized images of all the works listed in the key bibliographic records of English literature: The Short-Title Catalogue (Pollard & Redgrave, 1475-1640); The Short-Title Catalogue II (Wing, 1641-1700); The Thomason Tracts; and the Early English Books Tract Supplements, as well as original almanacs, pamphlets, musical scores, prayer books and other primary sources.
fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery
This is UoP's largest e-book collection with around 200,000 titles, including lots for History.
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ECCO is a searchable corpus of books, pamphlets and broadsides in all subjects printed between 1701 and 1800. It currently contains over 180,000 titles with over 32 million fully-searchable pages. It is a digitization of the 18th century section of the works catalogued in the English Short-title Catalogue (ESTC). The ESTC project has been recording all works published or printed in Britain, Ireland, territories under British colonial rule, and the United States. It also catalogues material printed elsewhere which contains significant text in English, Welsh, Irish or Gaelic, as well as any book falsely claiming to have been printed in Britain or its territories.
Oxford History Handbooks offer thorough introductions and a survey of the current state of research in key topics, including material culture, oral history, witchcraft, genocide, nationalism, Reformation, Cold War, the English Revolution, end of empire etc. Chapters review key issues and major debates and indicate how the debates might evolve.
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