History

Useful links

For quick access to high quality information for your assignments, try the links on these pages.

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Reading Lists

Got an assignment? Have you looked at the reading list to see lecturer recommendations?

Finding Books

Finding Articles

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For many assignments, our Discovery Service will give you enough articles to work with. This short video shows you how to get the best from Discovery.

Sometimes you may want to try specific databases or journals - perhaps your lecturer has recommended particular sources as a good way of finding articles or perhaps you just want fewer articles to look at. This section lists key sources for History:

• Databases

• More Specialist Sources

• Journals

• Journals Covering History of the Americas

• Journals Specialising in European History

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• Contemporary European History

A popular, peer-reviewed journal which covers the history of Eastern and Western Europe, including the United Kingdom, from 1918 to the present.

• European History Quarterly

A good source of peer-reviewed articles covering all aspects of history across Europe from the later Middle Ages right up to the end of the twentieth century.

• German History

The top, peer-reviewed journal covering German history.