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

• More Specialist Sources

• Journals

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• Historical Journal

A highly respected, peer-reviewed journal which includes articles on all aspects of history since 1500. This journal is always one of the most used by Portsmouth students.

• History Workshop Journal

One of the world's leading peer-reviewed history journals.

• Journal of Contemporary History

Each year this peer-reviewed journal covering post-1918 history tops the charts for Portsmouth students. It covers a broad range of historical approaches including social, economic, political, diplomatic, intellectual and cultural.

• Journal of Modern History

The leading American peer-reviewed journal for the study of European intellectual, political, and cultural history since the Renaissance. The JMH explores not only events and movements in specific countries, but also broader questions that span particular times and places.

• Journal of Social History

A key, peer-reviewed journal for social history topics - very popular with Portsmouth students.

• The Mariner's Mirror

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

The key journal for naval and maritime history - our subscription lets you access articles from 1911 onwards.

• Oral History Review

The leading peer-reviewed journal concentrating on oral history.

• Past and Present

A well established, peer-reviewed journal which is always popular with Portsmouth students.

• Women’s History Review

A key, peer-reviewed journal covering women's history from the 19^th century onwards.