Finding historical sources for the first time

by | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: Online Resources

In this guest post, Dr Mary Morrissey, Associate Professor in Early Modern English Literature at the University of Reading, offers some starting points and advice to those who are using historical sources for the first time. She points the reader to some online...

Online Resources: Ancient Greek and Roman History

by | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal: Online Resources

Ancient Greek-English Lexicon  https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/glp/introduction This resource provides researchers with access to a two-volume lexicon, which covers the most widely read ancient literary texts, from Homer to the Hellenistic poets,...

Online Resources: History of London

by | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal: Online Resources

Charles Booth’s London: Poverty Maps and Policy Notebooks https://booth.lse.ac.uk/ This resource enables researchers to search through the notebooks from Inquiry into Life and Labour in London (1886-1903) by providing visitors to the site to search through 41...

Online Resources: Global History

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  An International Database of Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio  http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/ This resource provides researchers with free access to an online database of catalogued material of Shakespeare-related content in international film,...

Online Resources: British History

by | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal: Online Resources

Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH)  https://royalhistsoc.org/publications/bbih/ This resource allows researchers and scholars to access and search through an online database containing the latest publication information on a variety of history topics...