Specialist Bibliographical Resources for Historians

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 19th Century | African History | Ancient History | Anglo-Saxons | Anthropology | Antisemitism | Art & Architecture  | Austrian | Book History | Biomedical | Canadian 1 | Canadian History 2 | Chaucer | Computing | Crime |Demography | Gay (LBGT) | Health & Medicine | Holocaust & Eastern Europe  Irish | Italian Science | Jewish History | Latin America | Legal History | London | Medieval Feminist Index | Medico-Historical | Middle East | Military | Psychoanalysis | Rural | Sexuality | Social History | Southern Africa | Sport | Third World Development | Theology & Religion | Transport | Urban | Victoriana | War | Women | Yorkshire 


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19th Century

The Nineteenth Century is the single largest and most important source of nineteenth century works for research and for teaching almost all aspects of nineteenth century studies.


Afrika Studiecentrum


Ancient History - Gnomon


Anthropology Institute

Anthropological index to Current Periodicals in the Museum of Mankind Library, incorporating the former library of the Royal Anthropological Institute Library).


Antisemitism

At present, the Felix Posen Bibliographic Project comprises three online databases containing about 20,000 items. New material is added continuously. The three databases are:

In the first two databases, entries are grouped in three sections:

Works on the Holocaust are included as part of the history of antisemitism in the twentieth century.


Art: National Art Library (Victoria & Albert Museum)

The National Art Library Computer Catalogue
About 20% of our stock of 1 million volumes is listed on this computer, which contains all items catalogued from 1987 onwards plus an increasing amount of older material.  Also see the Warburg Institute Library.

Courtauld Institute Gallerys collections

This includes the complete collection of over 7000 recently digitised drawings, the collection of paintings and a selection of prints, as well as photographic material from the Conway Library


Austrian Historical Database

The Oesterreichische Historische Bibliographie is available over the Internet from a computer in Klagenfurt. It contains 100,000 records after 1945. Telnet: lcom.edvz.uni-klu.ac.at or 143.205.56.9 Username: oehb
You're asked for your name and institution and then you're in. Read the help files.
Searching is possible by Stichwort, Person, Autor (einschl.Herausgeber), Klassifikation (the subject divisions in the OHB), or Zeitschriften. It is also possible to combine searches,e.g., an author or topic in a particular journal or classification. This database is very slow and not very user friendly.


Book History

International Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries


Canadian History

University of British Columbia databases, includes periodicals references.


Chaucer

Login: library, then select LOCAL and then CHAU The Online Chaucer Bibliographical database includes the materials from the Annotated Chaucer Bibliography, 1975-1994, published in Studies in the Age of Chaucer, volumes 1-18 (1975-96). The database will be expanded to include the bibliographies published subsequently in Studies in the Age of Chaucer. Covers a wide range of topics relating to the period.


Crime and Criminology

The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 140,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles,  and unpublished research.


Development Studies

Europe's largest research collection on economic and social change in developing countries.  Some full text retrieval.


East Yorkshire Bibliography (Hull)

This bibliography provides an index to material relevant to the East Riding of Yorkshire and includes books, pamphlets, periodical articles and major manuscripts. Topics covered include history, archaeology, literature and geography.


Film

British Film Institute
French Film Institute+


LGBT People with a History

People with a History presents the history of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered people [=LGBT]. It includes hundreds of original texts, discussions, and [soon] images, and addresses LGBT history in all periods, and in all regions of the world.  Also see Rictor Norton's Online Bibliography of Gay and Lesbian History


HLAS: Handbook of Latin American Studies

The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities.


Health

Use this database to find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health & Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc. Some historical material. [Also use Medline and PubMed]


History & Computing

This is a full text search of the Association of History and Computing bibliography


Holocaust Memorial Museum Library & Archives and Wiener Library, London and Eyewitness Datebase (Belgium Project) Yad Vashem Library

The Library provides access to printed materials on the Holocaust and its historical context. It seeks to become one of the world's most specialized resources on this subject. There are currently more than 22,200 books and journals in its multi-language collection.
Materials cover all areas of study relevant to Holocaust research. Subjects include the modern history of European countries affected by the Holocaust; modern Jewish life and history; the history of Fascism; the history of racial and political prejudice and antisemitism; genocide studies and issues related to world response; the study of victims of racial and political prejudice; history and development of various types of concentration camps; the study of child victims and children of survivors and perpetrators; the study of propaganda; Holocaust-related art, literature, and theology; personal recollections of victims; and the study of revisionism and revisionists.

The Wiener Library is the world's oldest Holocaust memorial institution, tracing its history back to 1933.

Eastern Europe European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (EBSEES)


Institute of Historical Research Bibliographies

This Bibliography is produced each summer by library staff to coincide with the Anglo-American Conference of Historians which has been running since 1921. This listing is produced by library staff as material for the annual bibliography published by the Royal Historical Society.


Irish Committee of Historical Sciences

Due to the increasing size of ‘Writings’ and advances in technology it has now been decided to publish ‘Writings on Irish History’ on the Irish Committee of Historical Sciences web site.



International Institute of Social History (Netherlands)

The International Institute of Social History (IISH) was founded in 1935. It is one of the world's largest documentary and research institutions in the field of social history in general and the history of the labour movement in particular. British social historiography spans about seven centuries from the medieval farmers' protests and enclosure movement to today's Nuclear Disarmament movement.
For further detains see IISH web pages


Israeli databases (Jewish History, etc.)

A wide range of specialist databases are available, including:-

Judaica Literature on Jewish History, Culture and Society


Italian History of Science

The Italian bibliography of the history of science (BISS) is a compilation of works on the history of science published in Italy: it includes monographs, journal articles, analytic entries from miscellaneous collections, reviews. The main object of the Bibliography is to provide those involved in the study of the history of scientific thought with a detailed and exhaustive source of information on the Italian contributions to this field. It aims to bring to international attention the significant quantity of research being carried out in Italy today in this field of rapidly expanding historical studies.


Kinsey Institute (Sexology)

The Online Catalog of the Library of The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Inc.
This database is owned by The Kinsey Institute, a private, not-for-profit Indiana corporation affiliated with Indiana University. Records in KICAT cover all aspects of human sexuality and may contain language and content that some persons deem offensive.

Sex-biblio

The "Bibliography of the History of Western Sexuality, 1700-1945" is extensive, but not complete. It contains about 16.600 titles of the non-belletristic primary and secondary literature of the history of sexuality in Europe, the U.S. and Canada from 1700 to 1945.

See also KVINNSAM The database is produced by the Women's History Collections Dept at Gothenburg University Library


Bibliography on British and Irish legal history

This is a bibliography of published works relating to British and Irish legal history.  Also see HEIONLINE , a retrospective database of legal journals (USA).


Leicester Centre for Urban History

The Centre for Urban History at the University of Leicester provides a vigorous research environment where graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and teaching staff together with occasional visitors from Britain and abroad can find a stimulating intellectual meeting ground. Various databases, including Oral History.


London

Produced by the Centre for Metropolitan History in association with the Royal Historical Society Bibliography, London's Past Online is a free online bibliography of published material relating to the history of the Greater London area.


Medieval Feminist Index

The Medieval Feminist Index covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. Because of the explosion of research in Women's Studies during the past two decades, scholars and students interested in women during the Middle Ages find an ever-growing flood of publications


Middle East Virtual Library

The Middle East Virtual Library (MENALIB) is an information portal for Middle East and Islamic Studies. It provides access to online information and to digital records of printed and other offline media and thus supports the concept of a hybrid library for Middle East and Islamic Studies.


Military (Air University Library)

  Includes AUL Index to Military Periodicals (1990-96).  Also see Australia Defence Force Academy Library and US Army Military College (with links)



Newfoundland Periodical Article Bibliography

The PAB: Newfoundland Periodical Article Bibliography is a bibliography of and index to the periodical literature of Newfoundland and Labrador. Covering journal articles from the seventeenth century to the present.


University of Oxford Discussion Papers

Full text of discussion papers in economic and social history. Abstract are available too. A postscript reader is required for the full text version.


Population & Demography

The Index covers all fields of interest to demographers, including fertility, mortality, population size and growth, migration, nuptiality and the family, research methodology, projections and predictions, historical demography, and demographic and economic interrelations. Input is derived from original publications including monographs, journal articles, other serial publications, working papers, doctoral dissertations, machine-readable data files, and relevant acquisitions lists and bibliographies.   Also at Popline

International Bibliography of Historical Demography

The International Bibliography of Historical Demography (IBHD) was founded in 1977 by Professor Etienne Hélin. From the outset, the project has been funded by the French Société de Démographie Historique (S.D.H.), the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (I.U.S.S.P.), and the International Committee of Historical Sciences (I.C.H.S.).


IGM

Internet Grateful Med.  Various databases, including PubMed which has been developed in conjunction with publishers of biomedical literature as a search tool for accessing literature citations and linking to their full-text versions at publishers' Web sites. PubMed searches the 9 million citations in MEDLINE supplemented by pre-Medline citations which do not yet have MeSH index terms and by citations supplied electronically by publishers.  Includes link to OLDMEDLINE for citations published in 1960 through 1965 and NML.


Psychoanalysis

The Jourlit and Bookrev databases, originated by Drs. Stanley Goodman and Vann Spruiell, together constitute a huge BIBLIOGRAPHY of psychoanalytic journal articles, books, and book reviews. Including files supplied by others, the complete set of references consists almost 30,000 entries.


Rural History Data Bases

For full instructions contact the Rural History Centre, Whiteknights Campus (ext.8666)

The Rural History Centre is setting up a catalogue of their holdings and an on-line bibliography of British and Irish rural history. The fields covered by the Bibliography relates to man's interaction with the environment both during and since prehistoric times, and to rural social and economic history. Information on the processing of the produce of the land, even in an urban environment is also collected.


Southern Africa Database

Confirm terminal VT100, select LIBS and then SAB, which is for Southern African material.


Sports History

Annual bibliography of publications and theses on the history of sport in Britain. Compiled by Richard William Cox.

Sport LA84

The LA84 Foundation has undertaken an ambitious project to convert portions of its traditional library collection to digital format. The growing digital collection now contains more than 300,000 pages, stored in over 45,000 PDF files. Digital resources include academic journals, scholarly books, popular sports magazines of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and an extensive offering of Olympic publications. The Olympic titles include a complete run of back issues of Olympic Review, the official publication of the International Olympic Committee, and two dozen Olympic Games official reports.
 

AALFA

The AAF (Amateur Athletic Foundation) operates the largest sports research library in North America, the Paul Ziffren Sports Resource Center. It is a state-of-the-art research facility and learning center dedicated to the advancement of sports knowledge and scholarship. Full-text of articles available (.pdf).


SOPHIA and THEOLDI and VRI

Sophia is the integrated library system maintained by the libraries of Union Theological Seminary (The Burke Library) and General Theological Seminary (The St. Mark's Library).  

THEOLDI: Documentation of Theological and Interdisciplinary Literature School of Theology at University of Innsbruck

VRI is designed to advance research in matters of religion.  Useful for history and text for many faiths.


Transport History

Terminal is v1, Login choice OASIS. Choose INDEXES and then TRAN
The TRAN file contains citation and location information for journal articles, conference papers, and other materials on transportation and law enforcement. Journal of Transport History is indexed here.


Wellcome Institute - History of Medicine

This is the primary database for the Institute Library's collections of printed books and serials, and the articles contained within them. It is not solely a catalogue, for it also contains records for medico-historical articles which are not in stock, but which have been indexed in 'Current work in the history of medicine'.  Wellcome Journal online.  Also see National Library of Medicine IndexCat


VIVA - Women's History

ViVa is a current bibliography of articles about women's and gender history.
Articles published in English, French, German and Dutch are selected from
more than eighty European, American and Indian Journals.

KVINNSAM

An interdisciplinary database containing titles on Swedish and foreign references on women's, men's and gender studies.  The references consist of books, journals, articles, chapters, pamphlets, research reports etc. The database now includes about 60,000 + references from 1981.

GENESIS

This extensive list of web resources on women's history will enable you to discover where in the world you can access information to aid your research.


Victorian Database


War - Military History

Imperial War Museum Collections Online. For the first time you can access our catalogues on our website.


26 June 2009