Listen very carefully! TAGS: 20th century | BBC | Britain | databases | history | primary source | radio | social history | World War Two I’m happy to let you know that thanks to an agreement with JISC the Library has been given extended trial access to the primary source database BBC Listener Research Department, …Continue reading →

Woman Suffrage Procession: using our newspaper archives for your research TAGS: databases | gender studies | history | Newspapers | primary source | social history | United States | woman suffrage In this week’s blog I’m using some of the Library’s online resources to find primary source material about a specific event, the Woman Suffrage Procession of 1913. On 3rd March …Continue reading →

Trial access: Women’s Magazine Archive TAGS: advertising | databases | fashion | gender studies | Magazines | marketing | online resources | periodicals | Politics | Popular culture | social history *The Library has now purchased access to the ‘Women’s Magazine Archive, collection I and II’. See New to the Library: Women’s Magazine Archive.* ProQuest have kindly allowed us to trial …Continue reading →

ProQuest e-resources trials extended! TAGS: Britain | databases | history | International Relations | Magazines | periodicals | Politics | primary source | social history | United States *The Library now has permanent access to Women’s Magazine Archive I and II, News, Policy and Politics Magazine Archive and Historic Literary Criticism (via ProQuest One Literature). We also have …Continue reading →

Trial access to magazine and periodical archives TAGS: databases | gender studies | history | Magazines | periodicals | political history | Politics | primary source | social history *The Library now has permanent access to the Women’s Magazine Archive I and II and News, Policy & Politics Magazine Archive. We also have access to all British Periodicals collections …Continue reading →

New to the Library: Nineteenth Century Collections Online TAGS: 19th century | databases | history | Politics | primary source | social history Over the summer the Library was able to purchase the British Politics and Society collection, part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) from Gale Cengage. This is a major new …Continue reading →