British political history since 1880 (Paper 6)
Part I, Paper 6
- Newspapers and periodicals online (see also the University Library's newspaper page):
- British Periodicals*: digital archive of hundreds of periodicals from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries
- Eighteenth Century Journals*: digital archive of newspapers and periodicals published c.1685-1815
- Factiva* (currently available on campus only): news from 14,000 sources, both UK and foreign
- Gale Primary Sources*: digital archive of 3 million pages of British newspapers (national and regional), newsbooks and ephemera
- Illustrated London News Historical Archive*: full digital archive of the Illustrated London News, comprising over 260,000 pages
- LexisNexis Butterworths*: a wide selection of UK newspapers, including regional titles, with backfiles (coverage varies between publications)
- The Times Digital Archive*: full digital archive of The Times
- The Economist Historical Archive*: full digital archive of The Economist
- 19th Century British Pamphlets Online: links to some of the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in UK research libraries, some of which have been digitised.
- BFIPlayer: 11,000 archive films are available to watch free from the BFI, national and regional archives. This collection grows constantly as more material is digitised.
- BFI Screenonline: online encyclopaedia of British film and television, featuring hundreds of hours of film and television clips from the collections of the BFI National Archive
- Bibliography of British and Irish History*: bibliography of books, articles in books and articles in journals dealing with the British Isles, and with the British Empire and Commonwealth; contains over 500,000 records, and provides links to online texts where available
- Brexit Collection (LSE): The London School of Economics has made a collection of campaigning leaflets from the 1975 and 2016 referendums on the UK’s membership of the common market and EU available online
- British Library Archival Sound Recordings*: online library of over 46,000 sound recordings
- British Pathé, 1896-1976: video film archive of newsreels, sports footage, social history documentaries, entertainment and music stories from 1896 to 1976
- Cabinet Papers, 1915-1984: fully searchable selection of Cabinet papers, 1915-1980, arranged by topic
- Churchill Archives Images Gallery: images of selected documents from the Churchill Archives Centre
- Discovery*: online access to the National Archives' collection of digitised public records
- Empire Online*: online collection of original documents relating to empire studies; includes exploration journals, periodicals, government papers, maps
- Hansard 1803-2005: records of parliamentary sessions for 1803-2005
- Macmillan Cabinet Papers, 1957-1963*: digital library of 12,000 pages of Cabinet papers, 1957-1963
- News on Screen (British Universities Film & Video Council)*: database of 180,000 newsreel and cinemagazine stories (1910-1983), linked to production documents and films
- Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue: catalogue of over 1.2 million items published in the English-speaking world from the beginning of the 19th century to the end of the First World War
- Northern Ireland: a divided community, 1921-1972: Cabinet papers of the Stormont Administration*: electronic, fully text-searchable Cabinet Conclusion files of the Northern Ireland Government (CAB/4) 1921-72
- Official Publications LibGuide: A guide to the official publications collections held within the Cambridge University Libraries.
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography*: biographies of over 57,000 individuals
- U.K. Parliamentary Papers*: digital library of House of Commons sessional papers from 1715, with supplementary material back to 1688
- A Vision of Britain Through Time: website bringing together historical surveys of Britain, 1801-2001; includes maps, election reports, statistical trends and travel writing
- Who's Who/Who Was Who*: biographical dictionary, published annually since 1849
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