Wide-ranging database for primary source historical archives. Includes manuscripts, newspapers, maps and photographs.

A collection of primary sources documenting the changing representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations from the nineteenth century to the present. This collection offers sources for the study of women's suffrage, the feminist movement, the men’s movement, employment, education, the body, the family, and government and politics.

Covers a wide-range of arts, politics and humanities subjects with a strong focus on UK publications.

News and business information, UK national and regional newspapers, international newspapers and newswires, foreign language news sources, professional and trade magazines, company profiles and industry reports.

NewsBank provides access to information from thousands of newspaper titles, as well as newswires, web editions, blogs, videos, broadcast transcripts, business journals, periodicals, government documents and other publications. The resource has content from leading news providers worldwide so has global coverage with newspapers available from a variety of countries in numerous different languages. The resource also provides access to image copies of UK national newspapers so you can view the content as it would have appeared in the print version.

Periodicals Archive Online is a major archive that makes the backfiles of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences available electronically.

An e-resource containing a variety of archival materials, ebooks, videos and images.javascript:;

Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: academic journals, books and conference proceedings. Scopus is a comprehensive resource covering chemistry, physics, mathematics and engineering; life and health sciences; social sciences, psychology, business and economics; arts and humanities and biological and environmental sciences. It also includes the Geobase database.

A rare opportunity to look back at the communist world, this is an important and historic film resource. Much of the twentieth century is covered from the Russian Revolution to the 1980s and countries featured range from the USSR and China to Eastern Europe and Britain. This is a fantastic opportunity to explore socialism in context. Produced almost entirely in the communist world, this collection includes documentaries, newsreels and feature films revealing the world from the perspective of the filmmaker. Socialism is laid bare in this important primary source.

Covers a wide variety of disciplines including engineering, sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. Search features include cited reference searching allowing you to discover who has referenced a particular work since it was published.