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19th Century UK periodicals, series 1
A full text resource that spotlights the birth of modern magazine publishing in Britain.
Charts the rise of children’s entertainment and education, and increasing interest in popular sports and hobbies.
Also covers the political spectrum of women’s writing.
NOT included in the main library search.
Arts & Humanities
Features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre, and Cultural Studies.
Full-text journals.
Included in the main library search.
Box of Broadcasts (BoB)
Off-air recording and media archive service.
NOT included in the main library search.
British Humanities Index
An international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities and arts.
This indexing database provides article citations and abstracts, not full text.
British Library Sounds
Contains over 12,000 recordings from the British Library's Sound Archive of the spoken word, music, interviews and sound effects.
NOT included in the main library search.
British Periodicals Collections I and II
Almost 500 British periodical runs from the 1680s to the 1930s, based on the UMI Microfilm Collection, 'Early British Periodicals'.
Included in the main library search.
Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
Thousands of essays on major authors, periods and genres, written by experts and designed for student readers.
Included in the main library search.
Cambridge Journals Online
Cambridge Journals Digital Archive contains the full text from 170 journals, from volume 1, issue 1 to 1996.
Included in the main library search.
Digital Theatre Plus
Streamed films of leading British theatre productions for educational use in schools, colleges, and universities.
NOT included in the main library search.
Drama Online
Features the pre-eminent drama titles from the Methuen Drama, Arden Shakespeare, and Faber lists to form a collection of the most studied, performed and critically acclaimed plays from the last two and a half thousand years.
Included in the main library search.
Early English Books Online
Digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America.
NOT included in the main library search.
Early European Books Online
A wide-ranging overview of the intellectual life and historical upheavals of early modern Europe.
NOT included in the main library search.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
A diverse collection of material for the researcher of the eighteenth century.
NOT included in the main library search.
Guardian and Observer (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Online access to The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003) newspapers.
Easily searchable first coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Included in the main library search.
Historical Texts
Contain a wide range of online texts from the fifteenth century to present day.
NOT included in the main library search.
JISC Journal Archives
JISC eCollections contains three platforms: Historic Books, Journal Archives and MediaHub containing thousands of journals, historical books, images, films, and sounds.
NOT included in the main library search.
JSTOR
UWE Bristol subscribes to the JSTOR multidisciplinary Arts and Sciences Collections I,II,III,V,VII, VIII and XIV.
A scholarly archive of over 1,000 full-text electronic journals.
MLA International Bibliography
The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index.
Covers books and articles published on modern languages, literature, folklore, and linguistics.
Included in the main library search.
Nexis
Full text database including UK national and regional newspapers, and worldwide newspapers and magazines.
Includes access to the Financial Times.
Also includes full-text information covering companies, industries, market surveys, countries, and people.
NOT included in the main library search.
One Literature (formerly Literature Online)
One Literature covers the period 1500 – 2008.
Contains 5 million literature citations from thousands of journals, monographs, dissertations, and more than 500,000 primary works.
Includes rare and obscure texts, multiple versions, and non-traditional sources like comics, theatre performances, and author readings.
Included in the main library search.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
An illustrated collection of over 56,000 biographies of people who shaped all aspects of Britain’s past.
From the 4th Century to the 21st Century.
Included in the main library search.
Oxford English Dictionary Online
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.
NOT included in the main library search.
Project Muse
Online access to high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers.
Included in the main library search.
SAGE Research Methods
A web-based research methods tool created to help researchers, staff and students with their research projects.
SRM focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, so can be used by researchers from the social sciences, health sciences and more.
Included in the main library search.
Scopus
The largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.
Fields of research include science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Included in the main library search.
Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio
Shakespeare-related content in film, television, radio and video recordings dating from 1890 to the present day.
NOT included in the main library search.
The Times Digital Archive
Access to back issues of The Times (London) newspaper online.
One of the most highly regarded resources for the study of 18th century history and onward.
Included in the main library search.
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
A complete online facsimile edition of every issue of one of the most comprehensive literary publications of the 20th century.
This digital archive an essential resource for anyone studying, or supporting the study of, modern literature, humanities and culture.
NOT included in the main library search.
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English Literature resources
Specialist advice and websites for English literature.