British & UK Studies Digital Library

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The British Library

  • Collect Britain
    "Putting History in place: over 90,000 images and sounds from the UK and beyond."

The British Library

  • British Library Public Catalogue
  • Resources for Research - (dead link) "These pages provide links to resources for research within the British Library and selected links to other online resources."
  • British Library Newspaper Library - (dead link)
    • Newspaper Library Web Catalogue - (dead link) "...includes entries for over 50,000 newspaper and periodical titles from all over the world, dating from the 17th to the 21st century. The collections of the British Library Newspaper Library include: all UK national daily and Sunday newspapers from 1801 to the present; most UK and Irish provincial newspapers, some from the early 18th century onwards; selected newspapers from around the world in western and Slavonic languages, including extensive holdings from Commonwealth countries; and a wide range of UK and Irish popular periodicals, mainly weekly and fortnightly publications as well as some published less frequently, covering all subjects from fashion, pop music, and cinema, to sports, hobbies, and trades."
    • Current Foreign (Non-British Isles) Newspapers - (dead link)
      "This listing provides details of the foreign newspapers - titles other than those published within the British Isles and received under legal deposit - which are currently being received by The British Library Newspaper Library, the archive collections in the UK of British Isles and overseas newspapers. The Library receives most of its foreign newspapers through purchase, although some are donated or offered to the Library on an exchange basis. The Newspaper Library is currently receiving approximately 250 foreign titles.
  • British Library Online Newspaper Archive
    The Online Facsimile Library
    Archives Newspapers, Magazines, Books, and Documents and can be searched for Ads, Articles, and Pictures.
    "...the world's first online archive of microfilmed historic newspapers.
    Newspaper issues from seven British dailies such as the Daily News, the Weekly Dispatch, and the Manchester Guardian have been selected due to their historic significance. They report an events like the Crimean War ending with the Treaty of Paris, the Boer War, and the armistice ending World War I...A digital archive of newspaper issues containing some 500,000 articles..." [description from press release]
  • British Library of Political & Economic Science (LSE)
  • Living Words
    • Voices of the Holocaust - (dead link)
      "This web resource consists of oral history testimonies gathered from Jewish men and women who came to live in Britain. These testimonies are personal, individual, true stories, which describe life during the Holocaust."
      Sections include: Topics for Students ; Teachers' Information ; Testimony Library ; Student Information Cards ; Reference.
      The British Library - Living Words
  • Manuscripts Catalogue
    "This On-line Catalogue is designed to offer a single means of access to the mainstream catalogues of the Department of Manuscripts covering accessions from 1753 to the present day."
  • National Sound Archive Catalogue
    "...includes entries for almost two-and-a-half million recordings held in the British Library National Sound Archive (NSA) and is updated daily. It is one of the largest catalogues of its kind anywhere in the world, covering both published and unpublished recordings in all genres from pop, jazz, classical and world music, to oral history, drama and literature, dialect, language and wildlife sounds."

BOPCRIS
British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service
"You can use this web site to search and browse information from British Official Publications over the period 1688-1995. You can also read abstracts, and view detailed consistent subject indexing, of key documents. You can then read the digitised full-text version of a limited number of these documents...BOPCRIS currently [March 2002] contains 23,279 references to key British Official Publications 1688-1995."

Journal of British Studies
University of Chicago Press
Available online July 2002-
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African & Asian Visual Artists Archive (Aavaa) - (dead link)
"Aavaa, has grown to become the most comprehensive slide archive of contemporary visual art by artists of African and Asian descent working in the UK since the post-war period ... The collection holds a diverse and distinctive range of material available for research. Aavaa's main objective is to document, collect and encourage reflection on the artistic developments that have taken place in Britain and internationally since the latter part of the twentieth century. The archive houses over 6,000 slides of artworks and exhibitions, as well as publications and videos about and by artists. There are over 200 individual artist folders, as well as curators, art historians, cultural critics and arts organisation files."
Part of vads - Visual Arts Data Service

AIM25 - Archives in London and the M25 Area
"AIM25 is a major project to provide electronic access to collection level descriptions of the archives of over fifty higher education institutions and learned societies within the greater London area."

Archives Hub
"A major national gateway to archive collections held in UK universities and colleges, forming part of the National Archives Network ... Fully indexed archival descriptions which can be searched in a variety of ways."

Bird Prints - The Complete Morris's British Birds 1891
www.BirdCheck.co.uk
Scanned by Ash. Midcalf

Britannia Magazine

British Asbestos Newsletter

British Council Publications
"...search for any in-print British Council publications produced in the United Kingdom, from leaflets, books and posters, through to videos and electronic books."

  • Info @ UK - Infoexch - (dead link)
    "...is a monthly bulletin on Information Society developments within the United Kingdom and around the world compiled by the Information Management Research Institute (IMRI), University of Northumbria - (dead link) on behalf of the British Council."

British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group

  • Coronary Hearth Disease Statistics - (dead link)

British Studies Bibliography
From The British Council

British Studies Intelligencer
"...published twice annually at the University of Arizona at Tucson, and is available at this website. The Intelligencer includes information on forthcoming meetings, summaries of regional and national meetings, and additional announcements and news in British studies. With the Spring 2002 issue, the Intelligencer will be published only in its electronic edition."
- National American Conference on British Studies

The BSE Inquiry

CAIN Web Service (Conflict Archive on the INternet)
 The Northern Ireland Conflict (1968 to the Present)
"This site contains information and source material on 'the Troubles' in Northern Ireland from 1968 to the present. Also information on society and politics in the region. Material is regularly added to the site and information on particular pages may change."
Maintained by Dr Martin Melaugh, University of Ulster

Cultivate United Kingdom - (dead link)
"...is establishing a European Cultural Heritage Network linking countries across Europe through a network of National Nodes. It is providing a single point of information on the opportunities, success stories and results arising from the European Commission's Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme which are of interest to libraries, museums and archives across Europe."

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) - (dead link)

The DiCamillo Companion To British & Irish Country Houses
"The Database is updated daily and currently lists over 6,900 houses, with images for over 850 houses. This undertaking will compile as many details as can be found about the houses, families who occupied them, and their estates, in a standardized format. The project will take many years to complete, but I believe that the Database is already a major resource, and the only comprehensive one online, for thumbnail information on these magnificent houses."
By Curt DiCamillo


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Dictionary of Slang
English slang and colloquialisms of the United Kingdom
By Ted Duckworth

digiStreets - (dead link)
Take a virtual tour of London by selecting postal code and street

Digital-Preservation Announcement and Information List
 A UK focused mailing list

E-government Bulletin
"...the first and best email service covering electronic government, teledemocracy and the information society in the UK and worldwide. The Bulletin is a free, independent publication, aimed at internet users across government, local government, the social sector and their private sector partners."
Formerly Internet Intelligence Bulletin.

Guardian Unlimited - Special Report - Terrorism Threat to UK
Sections include: July 7, 2005 Attack on London ; News ; News Archive ; Interactive Guide.

INCORE - Occasional Papers - (dead link)

  • "Peacekeepers? Peacemakers? Women in Northern Ireland 1969-1995" - (dead link)
    A Professorial Lecture Given at the University of Ulster on 25th October 1995
    By Valerie Morgan

Info @ UK - (dead link)
"The bulletin will provide you with details of initiatives and developments in the Information Society in the UK, along with relevant new appointments and publications. There will also be short summaries of European and world developments in this area."

Journal of British Studies
University of Chicago Press
Available online July 2002-

Library OPACs in HE
"The following collections of catalogue information are available : UK OPACs - arranged by region (see below), UK OPACs - in alphabetical order, and the OBI pages (OPACs in Britain and Ireland). The first two provide simple lists of links to catalogues at UK sites, whereas the OBI information covers the UK and the Republic of Ireland, and offers links with additional details about each catalogue and site (e.g. postal address)."

Looking into England
Online report and papers presented at this international conference. The site also includes useful links and bibliography.

National Archives Virtual Museum
"It provides a showcase for some of the treasures at the PROís new Education and Visitor Centre at Kew, including a host of landmark documents from the past 1000 years of British history. Many of these items have never before been on display. Visitors can explore everything from Famous Names to Crime & Punishment, and from War & Defence to Kings & Queens. They can find out surprising facts about famous people - including William Shakespeare, Robin Hood and Sir Elton John - as well as the extraordinary feats of ordinary people."

National Statistics
Official UK statistics site

  • UK 2002
    The Official Yearbook of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
    "The definitive overview of the UK in text, figures, tables, maps, charts and (hardcopy only) colour photographs. Formerly known as the Britain Yearbook."
  • Britain 2001 Yearbook [.pdf]
  • Britain 2000 Yearbook [.pdf]
  • StatBase
    "...contains data, and information about those data, from government statistical units across the UK."

Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey - (dead link)
"...a resource for everyone interested in the social attitudes of people living in Northern Ireland. Set up by Queen's University Belfast and University of Ulster and run every year, the survey aims to put on record the attitudes, values and beliefs of the people in Northern Ireland on a wide range of social policy issues."

Oxford University Bodleian Library - Digital Library Projects

Roman Roads in Britain - (dead link) (etext)
By Thomas Codrington
Published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, 1903.
Online version from Bill Thayer's Web Site - (dead link).

Royal Insight - (dead link)
A monthly guide to the life and work of Britain's Royal Family

Royal Institute of British Architects Library - (dead link)

  • Library Online Catalogue - (dead link)

The Royal Society (UK)

Science Museum, London

The Times Good University Guide
 "...runs every year with a week-long series of articles culminating in the university league table."

UK Data Archive
"...is a specialist national resource containing the largest collection of accessible computer readable data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom. Through these web pages it is also possible to search the catalogues of other national archives for computer readable data and to use the services of the Data Archive to acquire these data on your behalf."
Registration (free) is required.

UK Law Journals Directory
 Includes both print and electronic journals.
"This resource has been designed to assist all users to quickly find accurate information about UK law journals. Where applicable, links have been established to on-line information sources such as publishers home pages, electronic contents and abstracts of journals, and to the full text of electronic journals."

UK Yellow Pages

University of Essex - Institute for Social & Economic Research
"It specialises in the production and analysis of longitudinal data - evidence which tracks changes in the lives of the same individuals over time."

Visual Arts Data Service (VADS)
"The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) is part of the [U.K.] Arts & Humanities Data Service funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee and the Arts and Humanities Research Board ... We have two main goals as our mission: To build a searchable on-line archive of digital resources for use by the visual arts community especially higher education for teaching, learning and research ... To establish and promote good practice in the creation, management and preservation of digital resources through an advisory, training and publications programme."

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Maintained by Mike Madin.
Last Modified August2006
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