The Discovering strand will help you develop the skills you need to find subject specific information easily. This is useful if you are reading to prepare for a lecture or seminar, need to find resources for research, or want to go beyond your reading list resources for an assignment. Here you will find resources covering: how to use LibrarySearch, how to build effective search terms, how to use Boolean operators, and citation searching in LibrarySearch and databases.
The Evaluating strand will help you develop the skills you need to critically evaluate information so you're able to select reliable and appropriate information in your research and assignments. These skills are useful for helping identify fake news and misinformation, poor quality research and unreliable information. Content includes: podcasts on misinformation and filter bubbles, understanding and applying a framework for critical evaluation, and how to select the most suitable type of resources for different situations.
You can find a selection of subject-specific resources for History on our Library Resources A - Z. Filter the list under 'subject' to History.
An index of bibliographic information on journal articles and books on British and Irish history since 1900. In addition to the publications, the Bibliography provides links to help you find the items that it lists in research libraries.
Help pack for students and lecturers
Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. It provides indexing to more than 2,300 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.
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 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
Over 300 humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. Subjects covered include cinema, cultural studies, drama, history, literature, mathematics, modern languages, philosophy, politics, religion, and sociology.Most journals available online from 1995 or 1996 onwards
PDF guide to searching Project MUSE
Video Tutorials on using Project MUSE (YouTube)
Humanities Source Ultimate offers a wide variety of resources ideal for scholars of languages, literature, religion and philosophy, history and the visual and performing arts. With feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, book reviews, original works of fiction, musicals, operas and plays, this database provides access to research that illuminates human thinking, action and interaction.
Hundreds of international full-text journals from North America, Africa, Asia, Oceania, Europe and Latin America bring a global perspective to researching the human experience. With locally published content integrated with region-specific authoritative resources from all over the globe, Humanities Source Ultimate provides unparalleled coverage of regional news pertinent to the humanities.
An index of bibliographic information on journal articles and books on British and Irish history since 1900. In addition to the publications, the Bibliography provides links to help you find the items that it lists in research libraries.
Help pack for students and lecturers
A digital collection of more than 180,000 titles published in Great Britain and its colonies during the Eighteenth century.
Scanned images, and full-text digital versions where available, of over 125,000 books published in English up to 1700.
Areas of interest to medievalists include Classics, English Language and Literature, History and Archaeology, Theology and Philosophy, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Music, and Theatre.
Oxford Handbooks in History bring together the world's leading scholars to discuss research and the latest thinking in a range of major topics in History. searching help
A 50-volume e-book library of historical sources covering the period 300-800AD, many available in English for the first time
Major primary source collections are listed below. For individual primary source databases, please see the Library Resources A - Z list.
Discover the history of global politics and international relations from the pivotal nineteenth and twentieth centuries through this broad collection of UK government files sourced from The National Archives, UK.
2 modules available:
1. Foundations: Introduces humanities and social-science students to the key approaches and methodologies of working with primary source material.
2. Interrogating Colonial Documents and Narratives: Designed to introduce students to the key considerations concerned with studying colonial history, and to help both students and instructors to use primary sources on colonial subjects in a variety of teaching and learning scenarios.
AM Scholar provides digital access to over 8 million pages of primary source materials selected from the extensive microfilm back catalogue of Adam Matthew Publications.
From Renaissance literature to 20th-century global politics, AM Scholar brings a vast and varied array of sources to students and researchers in eleven thematic modules, covering key subject areas and supporting multi-disciplinary research.
Through AM's search, all the AM primary source content available through Senate House Library can be viewed and searched in a single interface. Use AM's search to explore through a single keyword search; take a deep dive into your areas of interest; and discover new archival materials to serve your research, learning and teaching.
Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents. Collections cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history. Particular strengths include U.S. foreign policy; U.S. civil rights; global affairs and colonial studies; and modern history.
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 Peridicals - Empire
Political Extremism and Radicalism
State Papers Online Colonial
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
The Fortunoff Archive provides access to over 4,400 testimonies.
You need to register for an account before searching the Archive. If you are off campus, you will need to be connected to the College VPN.
The Visual History Archive (VHA) contains over 50,000 digitized interviews of testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide, including the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda (1994), Armenian Genocide (1915-23), European Holocaust (1939-45), Guatemalan Genocide (1978-96), and the Nanjing Massacre (1937). More information about the VHA (ProQuest guide)
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.
Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video platform that offers films, documentaries and educational videos.
OneFile News is a full-text international newspaper resource that allows users to quickly search and compare news articles published worldwide.
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 Peridicals - Empire
Political Extremism and Radicalism
State Papers Online Colonial
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 academic edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, including articles, biographies, images, videos and a world atlas. The 'Compare Countries' tool shows a range of facts and statistics for different countries.
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, 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)
Through this link you will find more information about accessing Senate House's physical and online resources, as well as information about accessing libraries at other institutions.
