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The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. The collection totals almost 1 million pages and contains approximately 1,270 titles, including the Tatler (1709-1711); the Spectator (1711-1712); English provincial titles, Irish newspapers (the earliest being the Dublin Intelligence of 1691), Scottish ones from 1708 onwards, and many 18th-century American ones too, including the New England Courant. Many pamphlets and broadsides included have remained largely hidden until now.     

'19th Century UK Periodicals' is a full-text multi-part collection which covers the events, lives, values and themes that shaped the 19th century world. Subjects range from art to business, and from children to politics. The periodicals are presented in their original published context.     

Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts is an indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education.     

Contains primary sources on political, social and legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities around the world. The collection covers LGBTQ History & Culture since 1600 Part I, II & III. Covers subjects such as queer history and activism, cultural studies, psychology, health, policy studies, human rights and gender studies. Collections drawn from microfilm, digital, and analogue content including newsletters, organizational papers, government documents, manuscripts and pamphlets.     

Contains primary sources on political, social and legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities around the world. Covers subjects such as queer history and activism, cultural studies, psychology, health, policy studies, human rights and gender studies. Collections drawn from microfilm, digital, and analogue content including newsletters, organizational papers, government documents, manuscripts and pamphlets.     

Sourced from the extensive holdings of the British Library, British Library Newspapers delivers a wide range of irreplaceable local and regional voices to reflect the social, political, and cultural events of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. These newspapers, emerging during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a crucial channel of information in towns and major cities, provide researchers with a unique, first-hand perspective on history. With more than 240 newspaper titles, the series is comprised of approximately 6.4 million pages of historic content, from articles to advertisements. This collection illuminates diverse and distinct regional attitudes, cultures, and vernaculars, providing an alternative viewpoint to the London-centric national press over a period of more than 200 years.

Part I: 1800-1900
Ranging from early tabloids like the Illustrated Police News to radical papers like the Chartist Northern Star, publications in Part I span a vast range of national, regional, and local interests. Other notable papers of Part I include the Morning Chronicle, with famous contributors such as Henry Mayhew and John Stewart Mill; the Graphic, publishing both illustrations and news as well as illustrated fiction; and the Examiner, the radical reformist and leading intellectual journal.

Part II: 1800-1900
Part II further expands the range of English regional newspapers and the political views represented in the programme. Researchers can find the newspapers of a number of significant towns and regions included in this collection: Nottingham, Bradford, Leicester, Sheffield, and York, as well as North Wales. The addition of two major London newspapers, The Standard and the Morning Post, helps capture conservative opinion in the nineteenth century, balancing the progressive, more liberal views of the newspapers that appear in Part I.

Part III: 1741-1950
Part III adds even more regional and local depth to the series, encompassing powerful provincial news journals like the Leeds Intelligencer and Hull Daily Mail, local interest publications such as the Northampton Mercury, and specialist titles such as the Poor Law Unions' Gazette. Other noteworthy titles in Part III include the Westmoreland Gazette, whose early editor, Thomas DeQuincy (of Confessions of an English Opium Eater) was forced to resign due to his unreliability.

     

A selection of digitised documents from the University of Southampton Hartley Library's Ford Collection of British Official Publications. The term 'non-Parliamentary papers' is used to describe official publications which are not issued as part of the Parliamentary process. Earliest ones date back to the 19th century. This selection incorporates material from the following two earlier digitisation projects (1) BOPCRIS, and, (2) EPPI (Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland, 1801-1922).

Related resource: British Official Publications (Digitised Ford Collection)

     

A selection of digitised documents from the University of Southampton Hartley Library's Ford Collection of British Official Publications. This selection incorporates material from the following two earlier digitisation projects (1) BOPCRIS, and, (2) EPPI (Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland, 1801-1922).

Related resource: British Non-Official Publications (Digitised Ford Collection).

     

Selected from America's Historical newspapers from the American Antiquarian Society. Featuring more than 140 newspapers from 22 islands. Mostly publlished in English language; some also in Spanish, French, and Danish. Useful for research on colonial history, the Atlantic slave trade, international commerce, New World slavery and related topics.     

Access to more than 100 years of this popular British tabloid. Full digital facsimile, with many advertisements, news stories and images of 20th century culture and society     

Defining Gender is a collection of over 50,000 images from original documents relating to Gender Studies. The sources come from libraries and archives throughout the world, including many from the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England.

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Gale Primary Sources provides access to over 2 centuries of unique and rare newspapers, books, manuscripts, maps and photographs through detailed subject indexing, interactive tools and enriched metadata. It allows cross searching of the following 14 databases: 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection - 19th Century UK Periodicals - Archives Unbound - Archives of Sexuality & Gender - British Library Newspapers - Daily Mail Historical Archive 1896-2004 -The Financial Times Historical Archive - The Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003 - The Independent Digital Archive 1986-2016 - The Making of the Modern World - The Sunday Times Digital Archive - The Times Digital Archive 1785-2008 - The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive - U.S. Declassified.

User Account:
● You may open an account to create tags and annotations, view Search History, and save documents into My Folder.

Interactive tools include Term Clusters and Term Frequency:
● Clusters bring up expected connections along with unexpected but commonly related terms and the names of people who appear frequently in documents.
● Term Frequency shows search result trends over time for one or more terms.

     

The world's first illustrated weekly newspaper, it revolutionised journalism and news reporting. Presents a vivid picture of British and world events; wars and other disasters, royalty, social affairs, the arts and science. Access to the entire run from its first publication on 14 May 1842 to its last in 2003. Each page digitally reproduced in full colour and every article and caption is fully searchable with hit-terms highlighted and linked to corresponding illustrations     

This database focuses on the four core social science subjects of anthropology, economics, politics and sociology and provides comprehensive coverage of these, as well as selected material from cognate subject areas such as law, social policy and criminology.     

JSTOR (Journal STORage) gives access to (A) the full text of the complete back files of important scholarly journals, generally from the first volume through issues published prior to the most recent three years, and, (B) 800+ e-book titles from a wide variety of disciplines published digitally by university presses from 2013. All content can be searched at once; searches can also be limited via the 'Content Type' limit.     

This collection provides access to the archives of 26 of the most influential, longest-running serial publications covering LGBT interests. Includes the pre-eminent US and UK titles – The Advocate and Gay Times, respectively. Chronicles more than six decades of the history and culture of the LGBT community.     

Mass Observation Online provides integrated access to almost 400,000 digital images of material from the Mass Observation Archive (MOA). In addition, it functions as a finding aid for all material held on Adam Matthew Publications microfilm, and in the Mass Observation Archive. To make best use of the resource, users should have an understanding of the different types of material and how to approach using these online. .

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Recently updated, Warwick now has access to this important collection of social history data which consists of the directives (questionnaires) sent between 1980 - 2010 and the thousands of responses from hundreds of Mass Observers.     

Orbis is Bureau van Dijk’s global database which has information on over 300 million public and private banks, insurance and industrial companies covering 218 countries. It is a tool that specialises in private company data, containing active and inactive companies with up to ten years of financial data available. It is updated on a weekly basis and can be used in order to research, analyse as well as strategically build lists of companies using over 300 available search criteria.     

Oxford Bibliographies Online provides annotated subject bibliographies and research guides providing an up-to-date overview of the most recent and authoritative scholarship in a given field. Warwick subscribes to the following 16 modules:

African Studies
American Literature
Atlantic History
British & Irish Literature
Childhood Studies
Chinese Studies
Cinema and Media Studies
Classics
International Law
International Relations
Latin American Studies
Latino Studies
Linguistics
Philosophy
Political Science
Renaissance & Reformation
Sociology
Victorian Literature.

The individual bibliographies are all findable in Library Search and Classic catalogue.     

Oxford Scholarship Online is a collection of e-books published by Oxford University Press, covering a wide variety of subject areas. We hold full text to titles in the areas of Classics, Economics, Literature, Law, Maths, Philosophy and Politics. E-books available to Warwick staff and students are marked with a green unlocked padlock. You can also search for individual e-book titles in Library Search.     

Political Extremism and Radicalism in the Twentieth Century: Far-Right and Left Political Groups in the US, Europe and Australia, provides a range of documents and audio recordings covering the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The archive will contain over 600,000 pages of content, including campaigning materials, propaganda, government records, oral histories, both as audio recordings and transcripts, and various ephemera.     

A collection of original archival materials about popular culture in the U.S. and U.K. from 1950-1975. The resource offers thousands of colour images of manuscript and rare printed material as well as photographs, ephemera and memorabilia from this exciting period in our recent history. Access is available to collections I-II.

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Race Relations Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Records are selected from many of the top titles within the discipline, including Race, Ethnicity & Education and Ethnic & Racial Studies.     

A collection of primary source material on the Civil Rights Movement, segregation, discrimination and racial theory in America during three pivotal decades of the twentieth century. This resource includes a range of material from survey material, including interviews and statistics, to educational pamphlets, administrative correspondence, and photographs and speeches from the Annual Race Relations Institutes.

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A collaborative teaching and learning tool, with a comprehensive collection of key social science textbooks from SAGE.     

Contains information on qualitiative and quantitative research methods, designing research methods, and video case studies. Please note that we now access to Cases     

SAGE Research Methods Cases focus on how users can search cases by keywords to find projects on similar topics to their own to find inspiration on the best methods to use. Because each case examines successes and struggles faced over the course of the project, users will also learn how researchers need to make constant decisions throughout the course of their study and pivot when a method or data source is not working out. With more than 2,000 cases, SAGE Research Methods Cases has a multitude of research examples from across the social science disciplines.     

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. With over 19,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers, Scopus offers researchers a quick, easy and comprehensive resource to support their research needs in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and, more recently, also in the arts and humanities.     

The Scottish Government's official tool to identify areas of multiple deprivation in Scotland. Contains data and look-Ups | Interactive maps | Advanced tools and analysis | Introduction, technical and methodology documents.     

Provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines.     

Sociological Abstracts is the fundamental tool for access to the latest international findings in theoretical and applied sociology, social science, and political science. It references journal articles, dissertations, book abstracts, chapter abstracts, and association paper abstracts as well as citations from books, films, and software.     

An educational & cultural research resource of primary sources exploring 100 years of youth culture through the scenes, styles, and sounds that forged them. From Rave, Punk, Rockabilly to Grime. From the world’s leading collection of youth culture history.     

Since 1822, The Sunday Times has provided analysis and commentary on the week's news and society at large. The Sunday Times Digital Archive contains a wealth of social, cultural and historical content, from 1822-2006, all on a searchable platform.     

This important new online resource provides access to every page as published from over 200 years of The Times (London). The Times is widely considered as the 'world’s newspaper of record' and this online edition covers every major historical event from the French Revolution to the Falklands War, as well as chronicling all significant social, economic and cultural trends. Users are now able to search the full-text of the entire newspaper, including articles, editorials and advertising and can also browse - for example, by issue date, story headline, or subject. This resource provides a fascinating and valuable range of primary source material that can be used for teaching and research across the Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities.     

Web of Science is a multidisciplinary research platform which enables simultaneous cross-searching of a range of citation indexes and databases. It offers access to research tools like citation reports and cited reference searching, and personalised features such as saved searches and alerts. Apart from Web of Science we subscribe to BIOSIS, Incites, Medline and Journal Citation Reports. Click the tab at the top of the screen for the latter option. You can also register for an EndNote Online account to manage your bibliographic references     

This resource is comprised of two distinct elements, firstly a Finding Aid to Women's Studies Resources in the National Archives at Kew, and secondly a selection of original documents on the Suffrage Question in Britain, the Empire and Colonial Territories. The finding aid is the result of a five year project by staff at Kew and enables researchers to quickly locate details of any document relating to women in the National Archives at Kew. It is far more detailed and extensive than anything available elsewhere on the web and has the benefit of ranging across all of the classes held at the National Archives. The Original Documents will be valuable for those interested in the Campaign for Women's Suffrage in Britain, 1903-1928 as well as the granting of women's suffrage in Colonial territories, 1930-1962.

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