The Shakespeare Quartos Archive expands the British Library’s Shakespeare in Quarto website to provide digital access to all 32 pre-1642 copies of Hamlet held by partner libraries which include the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Huntington Library, the Bodleian Library, the National Library of Scotland and the University of Edinburgh in addition to the British Library.
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November 18, 200917th & 18th Century Burney Collection
March 17, 2009We now have full-text access to the Burney Collection of newspapers and news pamphlets collected by Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) which represents the largest single collection of 17th & 18th Century English news media. With over a million newspaper pages this is a valuable addition to the Library’s Electronic Resources.
Access to the database is through [...]
19th Century British Pamphlets
March 11, 2009JSTOR has completed the initial release of over 8,300 significant British pamphlets from the 19th Century held in UK research libraries. Pamphlets represented an important means of public debate on social, political and technological issues of the day.
The currently available pamphlets include:
Cowen Tracts 1603-1898
Hume Tracts 1769-1890
Knowsley Pamphlet Collection 1792-1868
The pamphlets can be viewed individually by [...]
William Blake: Special & Reserve Collections
January 22, 2009The display cabinet on the ground floor of the Library is currently showing a selection of material from the University’s Special & Reserve Collections. In the display are several interesting books on William Blake including:
- Alexander Gilchrist’s ‘Life of William Blake’ (1942, originally published in 1863) which is the first biography of Blake and includes reminiscences [...]
The Cabinet Papers, 1915-1977
December 8, 2008The Cabinet Papers, 1915-1977 is a brand new database from The National Archives which includes over half a million pages of Cabinet papers covering a 60 year period of the 20th century from the First World War to the welfare state. The database provides a unique insight into the decision-making of the time and the searches and [...]
Periodicals Archive Online
November 20, 2008The Library is pleased to announce the addition of Periodicals Archive Online: JISC Special Collection to our collection of electronic resources. This collection includes the full-text of 80 journal titles covering most of the 20th century from 1893-2000. Full journal details can be found under the ‘Find Journals’ link.
Access to Periodicals Archive Online is available [...]
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
November 20, 2008The Library is pleased to announce the addition of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers: 19th Century Collection (1801-1900) to our collection of electronic resources. This collection can be searched for specific papers or browsed by parliamentary session or subject. The database provides full-text access to a wealth of government paperwork which provides a unique insight into the legislation of [...]
FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Plus
November 20, 2008The Library is pleased to announce the introduction of a new database, the FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Plus. This resource comprises four individual databases, with the one of most use to students being the Index to Film Periodicals Plus. This database contains over 400,000 article citations from over 330 journals from both academic and popular titles and covering [...]
Research Display
October 31, 2008The Library is currently hosting an exhibition showing a selection of published research by staff and students of the University. Do take time to have a look at this impressive body of work and if you want to borrow any of the library books on display, then have a word with your Subject Librarian.
In addition the [...]
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
October 24, 2008The Library is pleased to announce the addition of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography to our list of electronic resources. This distinguished reference work includes biographies of over 56,000 people who have shaped and influenced Britain and the British way of life from the 4th century BC to 2004.
The Oxford DNB is easily searchable with a [...]
