History databases

17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers

Extensive collection of more than one thousand newspapers and pamphlets from 1600-1800.
Based on a collection at the British Library gathered by Reverend Charles Burney.
Coverage: Broad coverage of the humanities, science, and medicine.
NOT included in the main library search.

19th Century British Library Newspapers

Provides access to national, regional, and local 19th century British newspapers.
It includes 48 titles which reflect the social and political developments of the time.
NOT included in the main library search.

19th Century British Pamphlets Collection

A digital collection of more than 26,000 significant pamphlets compiled from seven UK university libraries.
Coverage: Key political, social, technological and environmental issues of their day.
Included in the main library search.

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.

Avalon Project

A Yale-based project to provide documents in law, history and diplomacy back to the 18th century and earlier.
NOT included in the main library search.

Bess of Hardwick's Letters

Letters to and from Bess of Hardwick between the years 1550 and 1607. It includes correspondence, images, and commentaries that provide an overview of her life.
NOT included in the main library search.

Bibliography of British and Irish History

Covering British and Irish history and relations with the empire and Commonwealth, from 55 BC to the present.
NOT included in the main library search.

Bristol Historical Resource

This is the online version of the Bristol Historical Resources CD-ROM, Created in 2000 by the UWE Regional History Centre.
NOT included in the main library search.

British Cartoon Archive

Contains more than 125,000 cartoons, fully-catalogued, searchable, and available to view online.
NOT included in the main library search.

British History Online

The digital library of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and early modern history of Britain.
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 Labour Party Papers, 1906-1969

Records compiled by the Parliamentary Labour Party 1906-1969.
Covers the early years of the party, the Ramsay MacDonald government, the wartime coalition, the Clement Atlee administration and the first premiership of Harold Wilson.
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.

British Union of Fascists: newspapers and secret files

Contains the three principal organs of the British Union of Fascists: Action (1936-1940), Blackshirt (1933-1939) and Fascist week (1933-1934).
NOT included in the main library search.

Clergy of the Church of England Database

The principal records of clerical careers from over 50 archives in England and Wales.
Coverage of as many clerical lives as possible from the Reformation to the mid-nineteenth century.
NOT included in the main library search.

Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (Medieval Stained Glass Windows in Britain)

International research project dedicated to recording medieval stained glass in Great Britain.
NOT included in the main library search.

Cullen Project

A searchable database of the consultation letters of Dr William Cullen (1710-1790) at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
NOT included in the main library search.

Digimap

Digimap is a collection of services that deliver maps and map data of Great Britain.
NOT included in the main library search.

Digital National Security Archive

The Digital National Security Archive is a database of primary declassified documents covering US foreign and military policy since 1945.
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.

European History Primary Source

Primary sources for the history of Europe between the 18th and 20th Century.
NOT included in the main library search.

Europeana

A database of historical artwork, artefacts, books, videos and sounds from across Europe.
NOT included in the main library search.

Gallica

The digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF).
This digital library includes more than 70,000 volumes of digitised texts, 80,000 still images, and 30 hours of sound recordings.
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.

Illustrated London News

Covers the reporting period 1842 to 2003, including news of war, disaster, ceremonies, the arts and science.
Included in the main library search.

Independent Local Radio

Audio files from four archives of Independent Local Radio from 1973 to 1996.
NOT included in the main library search.

Independent Voices

Digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries.
Produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.
NOT included in the main library search.

John Johnson Collection

A digitised document collection of more than 65,000 printed items of ephemera from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
NOT included in the main library search.

John Strype's Survey of London Online

An electronic version of John Strype's Elizabethan survey of London and Westminster.
NOT included in the main library search.

Journals

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.

Kanopy

Access to over 18,000 films, including major blockbusters, documentaries and the Criterion collection.
NOT included in the main library search.

Legacies of British Slave Ownership

A database holding the findings of two projects on slave ownership.
Topics include areas on the slave owners estates and plantations, maps of the estates.
NOT included in the main library search.

London Lives 1690-1800

A fully searchable database of 240,000 manuscripts from eight archives and fifteen datasets.
Gives access to 3.35 million names on the subjects of crime, poverty and social policy between 1690-1800.
NOT included in the main library search.

Mass Observation Online

The Mass Observation Online archive specialises in material about everyday life in Britain.
Included in the main library search.

Migration to New Worlds

The emigration of peoples from Great Britain, mainland Europe and Asia to the New World and Australasia in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Included in the main library search.

The Old Bailey Online

A database of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published.
Contains 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
NOT included in the main library search.

Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Ultimate reference work on family names of the UK.
Covers English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Cornish and immigrant surnames.
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.

Periodicals Archive Online

Digitised journals published in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, spread over a two hundred year period.
Included in the main library search.

Picturing Places

Contains the role and history of topographical views, maps and texts.
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.

Commentary

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.

Journals

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.

Commentary

UK Parliamentary Papers

Includes over 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to 2005, with supplementary material back to 1688.
UKPP delivers page images and searchable full text for each paper, along with detailed indexing.
NOT included in the main library search.

Vision of Britain

Data on Britain between 1801-2001, including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
NOT included in the main library search.

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