Literature

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

Set up the University VPN system to access these resources any time, anywhere!

On trial until 31st July 2024: Early English Books Online (EEBO) via ProQuest - once you have a paragraph about EEBO on screen, look at the bottom line where it says Cross searchable on ProQuest and click ProQuest to get through to the books 

Reading Lists

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Key Starters for Essays and Dissertations

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Text Archives

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Finding Articles

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Newspapers and Magazines

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Films, TV, Radio and Drama Productions

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Other Recommended Sources

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• Culture and Society Across Time Periods

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• Empire, Decolonisation, Slavery and Abolition

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fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

A brilliant source containing essays, maps, primary sources and an interactive chronology on the theme of Empire across the last 5 centuries

Additional access instructions:

Use VPN for off campus access

Read in-depth coverage about empires across the world from ancient to modern times. Entries include the Suez Crisis of 1956, the partition of Africa, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Dutch East Indies, propaganda and empire, decolonization in the French and British empires, postcolonialism and much more.

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

A wide ranging archive which includes US Supreme Court records, books, pamphlets, newspapers and facsimiles of letters by the English abolitionist William Wilberforce etc

Watch this short video about features available.

 

• Gender Resources/Archives

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• Specialist e-resources

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Digital Humanities

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Victorian Gothic Recommendations

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Referencing

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Your Subject Team

 Anne Worden

Faculty Librarian

email Anne.Worden@port.ac.uk

phone (023) 9284 3243

 Sharon Bittner

Assistant Faculty Librarian

email sharon.bittner@port.ac.uk

phone (023) 9284 3234