History
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Top Databases
- Bibliography of British and Irish history
- Good for finding books, chapters and articles on British and Irish history, including local history
- British Humanities Index (BHI)
- a good starting point as it includes articles from key History journals
- British History Online
- Links to Calendars of State Papers from the 13th to 18th centuries, plus other sources for local, religious and economic history
- EBSCO
- covers lots of subject areas so often good for a quick starting point
- Historical Abstracts
- the world’s leading source of detailed articles and chapters on History from 1492 onwards
- JISC Historic Books
- includes the full content of EEBO and ECCO
- JSTOR
- a journal archive containing over 60 major History journals. For many History students, this is the number one place to search!
- Mass Observation Online
- British Social History, 1937-1972
Top Journals
Dictionaries & Encylopaedias
- Credo Reference
- a high quality alternative to Wikipedia containing 100 reference sources
Websites & Sources of Data
- Archives Hub
- descriptions of archives held in UK universities and colleges
- British History Online
- the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles.
- Charles Booth Online Archive
- EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History (includes UK)
- The Great War Archive
- Hantsphere – digitised local studies collections from across Hampshire
- Institute of Historical Research
- the UK national centre for History
- The Jewish Holocaust 1933-1945
- The John Johnson Collection
- an archive of printed ephemera
- Keesings World News Archive
- National Maritime Museum
- Photos of The Great War
- Proceedings of the Old Bailey
- London’s Central Criminal Court, 1674-1913
- SSHLS Website: History
- Important web links, and the latest research and news relevant to SSHLS students
- The Women’s Library
- The World War I Document Archive
Theses / Dissertations
Audio & Video
Newspapers and Periodical Facsimiles
- NexisUK
- regional and national newspapers from the UK, Europe, the USA and Australasia, dating from the 1980s onwards
- The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
- British Periodicals
- searchable full-text of hundreds of periodicals from the late 17th until the early 20th century
- The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003
- 17th-18th Burney Collection Newspapers
- mainly UK newspapers and pamphlets
- 19th Century British Library Newspapers
- 100 national and regional papers
- 19th Century UK Periodicals
- a collection covering the growth of readership, including women, children and leisure interests
- International Times (IT)
- a British countercultural underground newspaper 1966-1986
Government Sources
Internet Tutorials
These are interactive on-line tutorials to help you access web resources in particular subject areas.
SSHLS Students
- SSHLS Website: History
- Important web links, and the latest research and news relevant to SSHLS students
Meet the Subject Team
Anne Worden
Faculty Librarian
anne.worden@port.ac.uk
(023) 9284 3243
Sharon Bittner
Assistant Faculty Librarian
sharon.bittner@port.ac.uk
(023) 9284 3243
Welcome to the subject page for History
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Guides
Advice about Archives and Primary Sources
- Using Primary Sources on the Web (History)
- Internet for Archives
- Advice about accessing archives
Where is my Subject in the Library?
- Although many history books are kept on the Second Floor in the University Library, social history, including women’s history, is on the First Floor. Specific classmarks of interest include:
- Decolonization: 325.3
- Early modern Europe: 940.2
- Empire: 909.097124…
- English history: 942
- French Revolution: 944.04
- German history: 943
- Historiography: 907.2
- The Holocaust: 940.531503924
- Local history: Hampshire: 942.27
- Netherlands history: 949.2
- Nineteenth Century Europe: 940.28
- Russian history: 947
- Slavery: 305.567…
- Social class history: 305.5…
- Social history: Europe etc: 309.14…
- UK history: 941
- Witchcraft: 133.4
- Women’s history: 305.409…
- World War II: 940.53,940.54
- What is history? 901
Manage the references for your dissertation using EndNote Web
You can use EndNote Web to gather all the references for books, journal articles etc which you want to use for your dissertation. The references can be accessed anywhere you have Internet access and you can get EndNote Web to create an instant bibliography for you - references to books and journal articles come out perfectly formatted for Harvard APA as used in Portsmouth (just make sure you select APA 5th within EndNote).
Year 2 and 3 students looking for information for their dissertations will find it helpful to read the following guide
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