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A specialized bibliographic database of scholarly works relating to all aspects of Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations.
A multi-disciplinary databases with access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines, as well as over 3 million images.
Quick tips on searching JSTOR
E-books of the Cambridge Companions in Literature, Classics, Philosophy, Religion, Music and Culture, giving accessible introductions to major writers, artists, composers, philosophers, topics and periods. Individual titles are listed in the library catalogue.
Over 270 e-books from the Cambridge Histories series, published since 1960. The collection covers a range of subjects, from American History to History of the Book, including Economic History, British History, Philosophy, Language and Literature, Ancient History & Classical Studies.
Covering Latin literature from its origins to the Renaissance. A multilingual research tool for scholars interested in the writers, texts and manuscripts of Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
The LLT-A contains a diverse range of Latin works from Antiquity, the Church Fathers, the medieval period and the modern period.
Includse genres as varied as chronicles, medieval saints' lives and travel narratives, legal texts, and theological, philosophical and scientific treatises from the early-modern period.
Presents a virtual library of all of the Loeb Greek and Latin literature texts (covering: epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; Church Fathers & pagan culture).
How to use Loeb Classical Library
Oxford Handbooks in Classics bring together the world's leading scholars to discuss research and the latest thinking in a range of major topics in Classics.
Help with searching Oxford Handbooks
Online resources about history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world, including primary and secondary texts, images, an interactive atlas and an encyclopedia. searching help
Areas of interest to medievalists include Classics, English Language and Literature, History and Archaeology, Theology and Philosophy, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Music, and Theatre.
A series of online research guides containing a series of articles introducing key topics, and lists recommended readings about each topic.
Video user guide (YouTube)
A searchable digital version of the dictionary created by The University of Chicago Library.
Online resources about history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world, including primary and secondary texts, images, an interactive atlas and an encyclopedia. searching help
Online resources about history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world, including primary and secondary texts, images, an interactive atlas and an encyclopedia. searching help
BoB is a viewing and off-air recording and media archive service which allows you to search for, watch and also record from a list of recorded channels. You can also create clips, search for programmes coming up, create playlists and share them with others.
BoB is only available in the UK.
A collection of historical archives (modern to present), newspapers and periodicals (17th to 19th centuries) including:
Archives Unbound
Daily Mail Historical Archive
The Economist Historical Archive
The Illustrated London News Historical Archive
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals (Series 2, Empire)
Political Extremism and Radicalism
The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
Nexis provides access to a wide range of UK and international newspapers. It also includes a collection of in-depth company profiles and industry reports covering millions of public and private companies.
Regional Business News provides full-text regional business publications for the United States and Canadian provinces. You can search newspapers, magazines and other resources from different news sources.
The link below will help you find Royal Holloway PhD theses, UK theses through British Library's EThOS service and theses and dissertations from other countries through ProQuest.
The online version of the OED including over 500,000 definitions, together with etymological analysis and variant spellings. Traces the development of English from 1150 AD to the present.
Video tutorial on using the Oxford English Dictionary
Over 100 general reference works, language dictionaries and subject dictionaries covering languages, science and medicine, humanities, social sciences and business.
A series of online research guides in a range of subjects including American Literature, British and Irish Literature, Cinema and Media Studies, Environmental Science, Victorian Literature,Geography, Classics and Philosophy. Each guide contains a series of articles introducing key topics, and lists recommended readings about each topic.
Video user guide (YouTube)