Resources & links
Web Resources for Historians
- Historical Societies
- General Online Resources
- Library Catalogues
- Archive Search
- Major Archives in Manchester
- Bibliographical Aids
- History Data Services
- Computing & History
- Databases Available Through JRUL
- Sources of Research Funding
1. Historical Societies
- Institute of Historical Research
- Royal Historical Society
- American Historical Association
- Economic History Society
- Historical Association
- Institute for Psychohistory
- Oral History Society
- Social History Society
- Women's History Network
2. General Online Resources
- Institute of Historical Research List of Web Resources
- JISC List of Web Resources for Humanities
- History Compass
- History & Policy
- H-Net Discussion Networks Index
- Humbul Humanities Hub - History
- Project Gutenberg (E-Books)
3. Library Catalogues
- John Rylands University Library (JRUL)
- JRUL collections of E-books
- British Library
- Copac Catalogue
- Library of Congress, USA
- Manchester Metropolitan University Library
- Salford University Library
4. Archive Search
- National Archives
- National Register of Archives
- ARCHON Directory
- Access 2 Archives
- Archives Hub
- Archival Sites on the Internet
British Library
5. Major Archives in Manchester
- John Rylands Special Collections
- ARCHON List of Repositories in the North West
- Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre, University of Manchester
- Chetham's Library
- Greater Manchester Country Records Office
- Labour History Archive and Study Centre
- Manchester Archives and Local Studies Centre
- Manchester Art Gallery
- Manchester Central Library
- Manchester Gallery of Costume
- Manchester Literary and Philosphical Society
- Manchester Museum, University of Manchester
- Manchester Jewish Museum
- Manchester Museum of Science and Industry
- North West Film Archive
- National Cooperative Archive
- People's History Museum
- Portico Library and Gallery
- Royal Northern College of Music
- Salford Museum and Art Gallery
- Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester
- Working Class Movement Library
Manchester also offers easy access to repositories in Liverpool, and to a wide range of local archives and study centres throughout the North West.
6. Bibliographical Aids
- Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History
- Seeley Library Monthly Index of Articles in Historical Journals
Aids accessed through 'Databases' section of JRUL 'Electronic Resources' http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/eresources/databases/ University of Manchester Students Only
- America: History and Life
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index
- British Humanities Index (1962 — present)
- Expanded Academic ASAP
- Francis Humanities Online
- Historical Abstracts
- History of Science, Technology and Medicine
- Humanities Index
- International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
- International Medieval Bibliography
- Libweb
- Periodicals Archives Online
- Social Science Citation Index
Social Science Information Gateway
- Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts
- Tour CD (on leisure and tourism)
- Zetoc Electronic Table of Contents
- ASLIB Index to Theses (UK & Ireland theses 1716 - present)
- Dissertations and Theses (international theses)
7. History Data Services
- Arts and Humanities Data Service - History
- British Census Data (1971 - 2001)
- CHCC Historical Censuses Collection (19th-C. Censuses)
- Economic and Social Data Service
- EDINA Resources
- Joint Information Systems Committee
- Social Trends (1970-95)
8. Computing & History
- Association for History and Computing
- Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for History Archaeology & Art History
- Netskills Quality Internet Training
9. Databases Available Through JRUL 'Electronic Resources' http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/eresources/databases/
University of Manchester Students only
Reference
For a list of online reference works available through JRUL go to http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/eresources/reference/
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Oxford Reference Online: access to 120 reference works published by Oxford University Press.
- Dictionary of National Biography: 50,000 specially written biographies of men and women who shaped Britain's past , 4th C. BC - 2000 AD.
- Film Indexes Online: extensive resource for film history.
- Keesings Record of World Events
- KnowUK: sources about the people, institutions and organisations of the UK.
- Middle English Compendium: access to wide range of resources
- Who Was Who: entries removed from Who's Who on account of death, each with date of death added and, where necessary, a final revision. Up to 1987.
- Who's Who: Over 35,000 biographies.
- Who's Who (1897-1998): Over 100,000 biographies, those in Who's Who 1996 and those included in all the annual editions of Who's Who which have been published since 1897 but whose subjects died before 1996.
- World Biographical Information System Online: more than 4 million entries.
Primary Sources
- Documents Online: National Archives' collection of digitised public records
- Digimap Historic Map Collecton: digital scans of OS paper map sheets .
- Early English Books Online
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online
- Literature Online
- Making of the Modern Economy
- Margaret Thatcher: complete public statements, 1945-90
- Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
- Pevsners Buildings of England
- Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985
- Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive, 1902-1985
- Women, War and Society, 1914-1918
- E-Books (Bible, Shakespeare etc.): for a full list go to
http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/eresources/e-books/ - Official Publications (Hansard etc.): for a full list go to
http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/eresources/governmentpubs/
Newspapers
For a full list of newspapers available online through JRUL go to
http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/eresources/newspapers/
Misc.
- Education Image Gallery: 50,000 copyright-cleared images for use in teaching, learning and research.
- Education Media Online: Copyright-cleared films for use in teaching, learning and research.
- SCIPIO: Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs from late-sixteenth century to present
- Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching: Selected programmes of educational value are evaluated. Includes bibliographies, weblinks and indications of sources of post-transmission copies, including the British Universities Film and Video Council's own off-air recording backup service.
- TV Times Project: fully searchable database of the programmes listed in the London Edition of the TV Times, 1955 - 1985.
Note: the above list offers only a selection of the resources available to students of the University of Manchester through the JRUL's 'Databases'.