History

Useful links

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

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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

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

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• Historical Abstracts

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

The world's leading source of articles and chapters on all aspects of world history from 1450 onwards.

• History Resources on JSTOR

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

JSTOR started as a journal archive but it now offers much more. Jump straight to the articles and chapters on JSTOR which are most useful for History topics. You will also find tips about using JSTOR and carrying out research.

• JSTOR

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

JSTOR is best known as an academic journal archive containing thousands of articles on a wide range of subjects. To find the most recent years, you will need to search other databases like Discovery or go to the journal sites themselves. JSTOR also contains ebooks, research reports and 1000+ collections of images and primary sources from libraries, museums and archives around the world.

For some tips on searching JSTOR, watch this short video. If you use JSTOR a lot, it's worth setting up a free, personal account so that you can use JSTOR's Workspace to store articles and notes. A personal account will also give you access to JSTOR's own AI tool which searches across JSTOR content for you, summarising articles/chapters and recommending related sources (it does not look outside JSTOR).

Look out for JSTOR's collections of 19^th century British pamphlets.