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British
& Commonwealth History - Collections
General History
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Databases
& Websites
BBC
- History. Over 10,000 pages of secondary materials
covering key historical themes and events.
British
History Research Guide. Full-text documents from Rutgers
University Libraries.
British History
Online. A digital library containing some of the core
printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and
modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute
of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust.
British
Philosophy: 1600-1900. Full-text database of works by:
Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, the British Moralists (Selections),
Anne Conway, John Locke, Bishop George Berkeley, David Hume,
Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, David Ricardo, Jeremy Bentham, John
Stuart Mill, Henry Sidgwick
Historical Abstracts (1954+) 
History
of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents (Eurodocs from
BYU).
House of
Commons Parliamentary Papers Full-text searchable sessional
papers from 1801-2004.
Internet
Modern History Sourcebook, compiled by Paul Halsall,
Fordham University.
The
Making of the Modern World: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library
of Economic Literature, 1450-1850. This full-text, fully
searchable database combines the strengths of the Goldsmiths'
Library of Economic Literature at the University of London
and the Kress Library of Business and Economics at Harvard
with supplementary materials from the Seligman Collection
in Columbia's Butler Library and from the libraries of Yale
University. Almost 12 million pages present more than 61,000
books from the period 1460-1850, and 466 pre-1906 serials,
offering a comprehensive witness to the theories, practices,
and consequences of economic and business activity in the
West.
The National Archives.
One of the largest archived collections in the world, the
National Archives spans 1000 years of British history. Certain
documents are available online.
The Norton Anthology of English Literature Online
The
Online Library of Liberty (Liberty Fund). This free
website makes available hundreds of full-length classic
texts
on the nature of individual
liberty, limited and constitutional government, and the free
market. Every author has a biography page with information
about their life and work and a list of their online titles.
The authors are grouped by historical period and into schools
of thought.
Treasures of
the National Archives. The Public Record's Office virtual
museum, displaying highlights from its collection online.
Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography. 50,000 biographies of people who shaped the
history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest
times to the year 2001.
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Periodicals
& Newspapers
Academic
Search Premier from EBSCO. Provides access to journal
articles in most academic areas of study. It includes full-text
coverage for over 1,530 journals from 1990 to the present
and abstracts/indexing of nearly 3,000 journals from 1984
to the present.
JSTOR
Search. A full-text database of over 500 scholarly journals.
The
Journal of British Studies. North America's premier publication
for the study of British history and civilization, JBS publishes
research articles and thematic review essays by an array of
international authors in history, literature, and allied disciplines
in the humanities and social sciences.
The
English Historical Review. First published in 1886, The
English Historical Review is the oldest journal of historical
scholarship in the English-speaking world. It deals not only
with British history, but with almost all aspects of European
and world history since the classical era.
The
Historical Journal. The Historical Journal publishes
papers on all aspects of British, European, and world history
since the fifteenth century.
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Indexes
& Bibliographies
London's
Past Online (Centre for Metropolitan History in association
with the Royal Historical Society Bibliography). Free, comprehensive
online bibliography of published material relating to the
history of the Greater London area.
Periodicals Index Online.
Formally known as Periodicals Contents Index (PCI), this database
searches millions of articles published in the arts, humanities,
and social sciences, over a 300 year plus span, enabling researchers
to quickly locate articles relevant to their particular field
of study.
The
Royal Historical Society Bibliography: A Guide to Writing
About British and Irish History.
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Encyclopedias
Encyclopaedia
of British History: 1500-1980
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Encyclopedias & Handbooks
Historical
Dictionary of the United Kingdom, Kenneth J.
Panton and Keith A. Cowlard.
Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1997.
Location: Green Library (DA34 .P36 1997 v.1-2)
Reader's Guide to British History,
David Loades, editor.
New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003.
Location: Green Library, Lane Room: Non-circulating (DA34
.R43 2003 V.1-2)
The Columbia Companion to British History,
edited by Juliet Gardiner & Neil Wenborn.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
Location: Green Library (DA34 .H64 1997)
The Companion to British History,
Charles Arnold-Baker.
New York: Routledge, 2001.
Location: Green Library, Information Center: Non-circulating
(DA34 .A76 2001)
The Oxford Companion to British History,
John Cannon, editor
New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Location: Green Library, Lane Room: Non-circulating (DA34
.O93 2002)
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Journals
The
English Historical Review
Location:Green Library, latest year or volume availble in Current Periodicals;
earlier in Stacks (DA20 .E58 v.1 1886 - present)
Electronic version available to Stanford-affiliated users at INGENTA, OXFORD,
and JSTOR.
Online
table of contents from PCI available to Stanford-affiliated users.
Historical Journal
Location: Green Library, latest year or volume availble in Current Periodicals;
earlier in Stacks (D1 H37 v.1 1958 - present).
Electronic version available to Stanford-affiliated users at OCLC, CAMBRIDGE,
and JSTOR.
Online
table of contents from PCI available to Stanford-affiliated users.
Parliamentary History
Location: Green Library, latest year or volume availble in Current Periodicals;
earlier in Stacks (JN500 .P29 v.1 1982 - present). Vol. 19, no. 1 and monographic
supplements cataloged separately.
Online
table of contents from PCI available to Stanford-affiliated users.
Past and Present
Location: Green Library, latest year or volume availble in Current Periodicals;
earlier in Stacks (D1 .P37 NO.1-188).
Electronic version available to Stanford-affiliated users at INGENTA, OXFORD, JSTOR,
and MUSE.
Online
table of contents from PCI available to Stanford-affiliated users.
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Catalogs & Indexes
British
Biographical Index
München: K.G. Saur, 1998
Location: Green Library, Information Center: Non-circulating (CT773 .B75 1998 F V.1-7)
Summary
Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian
Library, Oxford: Acquisitions, 1916-1975, by
Mary Clapinson and T.D. Rogers.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.
Location: Green Library, Lane Room: Non-circulating (Z6621
.B66 B63 1991 v.1-3)
A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in
the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895-1953.
Location: Green Library, Lane Room: Non-circulating (Z6621
.O96 W5 v.1-7)
A Catalogue of the Manuscripts Preserved in the
Library of the University of Cambridge.
New York: G. Olms, 1980.
Location: Green Library, Lane Room: Non-circulating (Z6621
.C1913 1979 v.1-5)
Index of Manuscripts in the British Library.
Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey, 1984-
Location: Green Library, Lane Room: Non-circulating (Z6621
.B8372 1984 F v.1-10)
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Maps
& Atlases
Atlas
of British History, Martin Gilbert.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Location: Green Library, Lane Room: Non-circulating (G1811.S1
G5 1993)
Atlas of British Social and Economic History Since
c.1700, edited by Rex Pope.
London: Routledge, 1989.
Location: Green Library, Lane Room: Non-circulating (DA470
.A85 1989)
An Atlas of Rural Settlement in England,
Brian K. Roberts and Stuart Wrathmell.
London: English Heritage, 2003. 77 p.: maps (some col.); 42 cm.
Location: Green Library, Stacks, HN398 .E5 R63 2003 F
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| Microform
Resources |
Documents
Records
of the Court of Arches at Lambeth Palace Library, 1554-1911.
Series 2, Proceedings in the Court of Arches, 1554-1875.
Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey
Location: Green Library, Media Microtext Collection (MFILM
N.S. 8000)
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