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HISTORY

Welcome to the History subject guide. This guide is designed for students and researchers to find, and access, the best resources available through the library to support research in your discipline. Click on the links below to find out more.

Quick links

Below are quick links to some popular Queen Mary Library Services resources for History.  Explore the Subject Guide to find out more about these and the other resources Queen Mary Library Services makes available in this subject area.

Early English Books Online (EBBO)

Comprehensive online collection of works printed in the British Isles and North America, as well as works in English printed elsewhere, from 1470-1700.

Gale Primary Sources

Online collection of historical newspapers including: The Daily Mail, The Economist, The Financial Times, The Mirror, The Telegraph, The Times and more.

JSTOR

Database providing full text access to a vast range of core academic journals, books and primary sources on the arts, humanities and social sciences.

LibKey Nomad

Queen Mary Library Services provides access to a browser extension called LibKey Nomad that can help to streamline your access to online material, including when using resources listed in this guide.  You can find more information via our handy FAQs.

Books, e-books and DVDs

BrowZine

Queen Mary Library Services provides a range of tools that help you interact with our collections.  BrowZine is a specialist tool that can help you to search, browse and keep track of the scholarly journals in our online journal collection.  For more information, check the Library FAQs:

What is BrowZine and how do I use it?

Databases

Access and search databases of high-quality content that the Library subscribes to. Databases contain secondary sources (i.e. works written by historians subsequent to the events they describe), and digitised primary sources (i.e. the text of original documents that are contemporary with the events they record).

Websites

There is a great deal of information on the web which will be generally helpful for your study of History. Check out the websites.

Other Libraries

Find other libraries in London that have rich collections related to the study of History.

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