History - Suggested Additional Resources

There are a wide range of resources available to History students beyond the obvious journals, databases and websites. Here we list a selection we think you'll find useful.

Audio and Video

• Box of Broadcasts (BoB)
  watch UK TV programmes from 2007 onwards, including many useful documentaries
• Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive
• Moving History – a research guide to UK moving image archives
• Moving Image Gateway

Government Sources

• House of Commons Parliamentary Papers – 19th and 20th century

Internet Tutorials

• Internet for Historians
  interactive on-line tutorials to help you access web resources in your subject area.

Newspapers

• 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
• 19th Centurt UK Periodicals
• British Periodicals
  searchable full-text of hundreds of periodicals from the late 17th until the early 20th century
• Economist Historical Archive 1843 - 2003
• Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003
• International Times
  a British countercultural underground newspaper 1966-1986
• Nexis UK
  regional and national newspapers from the UK, Europe, the USA and Australasia, dating from the 1980s onwards
• Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
• UKpressonline
  archives of the Daily Express and the Daily Mirror

Reading Lists

Reading lists may have been prepared by your lecturer specifically for your course.

•  School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies

School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies

• SSHLS Website: History
  Important web links and latest research and news relevant to SSHLS students

Theses and Dissertations

• Dissertations@Portsmouth
• British Library EthOS