Dictionaries and encyclopedias for history
Use encyclopedias:
- for summaries
- for lists of further reading
- when starting a project
Some useful titles are listed below. Find more on Unicorn by searching for "history and encyclopedias".
There are two key online resources which give access to hundreds of dictionaries and encyclopedias:
Useful reference works for history: selected titles
This list is only a small selection of titles; many more can be found by searching Unicorn or browsing the reference collections on each of the subject floors.
Encyclopedia of contemporary British culture
4th Floor Reference--301.20942-ENC
Encyclopedia of the Cold War
4th Floor Reference--327.103-ENC
A dictionary of 20th-century communism
4th Floor Reference--335.4-DIC
International encyclopedia of military history
4th Floor Reference--355.09-INT
Women and gender in medieval Europe: an encyclopedia
4th Floor Reference--396.09401
Encyclopedia of world history: ancient, medieval and modern
4th Floor Reference--902-ENC
Macmillan dictionary of historical terms
4th Floor Reference--903-COO
The Routledge companion to world history since 1914
4th Floor Reference--909.82-COO
Dictionary of medieval terms and phrases
4th Floor Reference--942.02-COR
Oxford dictionary of national biography
4th Floor Reference--920.042-OXF
Also available online - Athens login required for off-campus use
Dictionary of the middle ages
4th Floor Reference--940.1-DIC
The Wiley-Blackwell dictionary of modern European history since 1789
4th Floor Reference--940.2-ATK
Routledge companion to European history since 1763
4th Floor Reference--940.2-COO
Encyclopedia of the Renaissance
4th Floor Reference--940.21-ENC
Medieval England: an encyclopedia
4th Floor Reference--942.02-MED
Tudor England: an encyclopedia
4th Floor Reference--942.05-TUD
The Routledge companion to the Stuart age, 1603-1714
4th Floor Reference--942.06-WRO
Encyclopedia of contemporary American culture
4th Floor Reference--973.92-ENC
Times atlas of world history
Folio--911-TIM