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

Finding Books

Finding Articles

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For many assignments, our Discovery Service will give you enough articles to work with.

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

• Databases

• More Specialist Sources

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Try this especially for dissertation work

• Bibliography of British and Irish History

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

Good for finding books, chapters and articles on British and Irish history, including the local history of e.g. London and Portsmouth. It also covers migration, gender, race, military history, the British Empire and decolonisation, so you can find quality sources covering Africa, America etc.

If you're interested in a journal article you've found, scroll to the bottom and try clicking the DOI in the External links section - as long as you're connected to the VPN, you'll be able to go straight to the full article of anything we buy.
If you're interested in a book or chapter, click the Library Discover button above the record, then on the next screen, expand the list of Holding libraries to see if Portsmouth is listed.
Access these videos showing you how to make the most of this database which contains 640,000 records.