1881 Census | 1881 census available as a surname index, an arranged-as-enumerated index, and a place and birth index. | |
Ancestry Library | Collection of information sources from the US and Britain, for family and local history research. This includes census, births and passenger list information. | |
Arts and Humanities Citation Index | Holds references to articles in over 1144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and also references to over 6,800 major science and social science journals. | |
Aslib Index to Theses | Index of higher degree theses of the universities of the United Kingdom and Ireland since 1970. | |
ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Citation Index) | Abstracts from around 650 UK, US and international journals, including all branches of the applied social sciences. Holds over 300,000 records dating back to 1987. | |
Biography Database 1680-1830 | 18th century records e.g. directories, book subscription lists, society lists and special collections, also the personal records from the Gentleman's Magazine 1731-1750. | |
Bodleian Library pre-1920 Catalogue of Printed Books | Search under headings, title, subject, collections, shelf mark, and bibliographic references. Place and year filters are also available when you search. | |
British Humanities Index | Index to articles on arts and humanities topics in the English language including full text of some articles. | |
British Library Maps Catalogue | The British Library's collection of 300,00 manuscript and printed maps. | |
British National Bibliography | Nearly 2 million authoritative catalogue records created for the national bibliography since 1950. 1996 to 2004 | |
Burke's Peerage & Gentry | A guide to the peerage and gentry of the United Kingdom. | |
Capeli | A database of records of all known Nonconformist archives held in the NLW, the local record offices and the National Archives. | |
Classification Web | Information on Library of Congress Classification and Subject Heading schemes. | |
Companies House Directory* | The official UK government register of United Kingdom companies. | |
CPM Plus | Catalogue of printed music in the British Library to 1990. | |
Crime and Punishment | Comprises data about crimes, criminals and punishments included in the gaol files of the Court of Great Sessions in Wales from 1730 to its abolition in 1830. | |
Dissertation Abstracts | A definitive subject, title and author guide to virtually every American dissertation accepted at an accredited institution since 1861. Selected Masters theses included since 1962. | |
Early English Books Online | Records and page images of early English books including Pollard and Redgrave's STC (1475-1640), Wing's STC (1641-1700) and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661). - Logon using ATHENS - Logon if you are using a Library PC |
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Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) | The Economic and Social Data Service is a national data service that provides access and support for an extensive range of key economic and social data. |
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online | Based on the English Short Title catalogue, the holdings of the British Library and other libraries worldwide. It provides full text access to 150,000 titles and editions published between 1701-1800. - Logon using ATHENS - Logon if you are using a Library PC |
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Encyclopaedia Britannica | Access to five encyclopaedia databases. Encyclopaedia Britannica's fully searchable text presented in an interactive format. Offering over 100,000 articles, 200,000 related web links, illustrations, maps, graphs and sounds. - Logon using ATHENS - Logon if you are using a Library PC |
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English Poetry Full-Text Database | Includes 4,450 works of poets from the Anglo-Saxon period to the end of the 19th century | |
English Short Title Catalogue | Holds records for works published between 1475 and 1800. It includes the former Eighteenth-Century Short Title Catalogues (ESTC), Pollard and Redgrave and Wing. | |
English Verse Drama | Contains more than 2,200 works by over 500 named authors, and over 300 anonymous works, from the late 13th to the 19th century. | |
First Search | Online service that gives users access to a rich collection of reference databases, containing more than 10 million full-text and full-image articles. | |
Global Books in Print | List of books currently in print with a synopsis of each book. | |
Guardian and Observer 1990- | Full text editions of the newspapers from 1990. 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998-2001 | |
Hand Press Book File |
Records for European publications c.1455-1830 contributed to the file by members of the Consortium of European Research Libraries.
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Independent, October 1988 - December 1992 | Full text edition of the newspaper, from October 1988 to December 1992. | |
Indexes of British Parliamentary Papers* | Indexes of House of Commons Sessional Papers, House of Lords Sessional Papers and Hansard's Debates. | |
Ingenta Full text Journals |
Comprehensive collection of academic and professional publications. The Library subscribes to 30 titles at the moment. - Logon using ATHENS - Logon if you are using a Library PC |
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ISTC | A list of extant books printed with movable type up to and including the year 1500. Entries contain references to standard reference works in the field of 15th century books and supply the locations of all known copies of each title. | |
JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive | Access to 394 on-line journals in JSTOR's Arts and Sciences collections, I, II and III. - Logon using ATHENS - Logon if you are using a Library PC |
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KnowUK | Key information about people, places and organisations in the United Kingdom. Over a 100 reference publications, and most are unique to KnowUK. - Logon using ATHENS - Logon if you are using a Library PC |
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Macmillan Cabinet Papers 1957-1963 | Access to over 30,000 images of original documents from the Macmillan government, with introductory essays and indexing. | |
Maldwyn The Index to Welsh Poetry in Manuscript | An index to Welsh poetry found in manuscript sources. You can search for first/last line, poet, metre, type and subject. The search interface is only available in Welsh. More information | |
Manors | A database of Welsh manorial records, forming part of the Manorial Documents Register which identifies the location of manorial records. The register can also be accessed via http://www.mdr.nationalarchives.gov.uk/mdr/. | |
MLA International Bibliography | Enables users to find books and articles on languages, literature, folklore from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and North and South America. | |
Netlibrary | A collection of E-books. The Library has puchased a choice of around 300 titles of Welsh and Celtic interest. We also have access to over 3000 more general titles. We will be adding to this choice in the future. - Logon using ATHENS - Logon if you are using a Library PC |
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NewsUK | NewsUK is an online service developed to provide national and regional news, combining the most popular British newspaper titles in one database. - Logon using ATHENS - Logon if you are using a Library PC |
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Nineteenth Century (General Collection) | Includes thousands of scarce books and pamphlets originally published between 1801 and 1900, creating a huge resource for research in every area of human life and ideas in the 19th century. | |
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Official Index to the Times 1906-1980 | Online index to articles published in the Times between 1906 and 1980. | |
The Origins Network | Family history research resources website. | |
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | 50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the United Kingdom and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2000. - Logon using ATHENS - Logon if you are using a Library PC |
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Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd edition.* | Access to more than 2.4 million illustrative quotations, providing an invaluable record of the language, tracing the various uses of each word through the centuries. | |
Oxford Reference Online | Over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database. | |
Palmer's Index to The Times | Index to The Times newspaper from the 19th century (See also The Times Digital Archive). | |
Patrologia Latina Database | Contains all 221 volumes of the printed Patrologia Latina published by J. P. Milgne, including the notes, glosses and indices. | |
Periodicals Content Index (PCI) | An index to periodical articles relating to social sciences. | |
Probate records, 1521-1858 | An index to the wills, inventories and administration bonds proved in the Welsh ecclesiastical courts. | |
ProQuest - Dissertations and Theses | Index and abstracts to theses. mostly in English, many from American universities but also from the UK, Canada and Europe. Index from 1861 onwards. Abstracts from 1988 only. Arts and Social Sciences only. | |
RLG Union Catalogue | The catalogue offers records of different kinds of materials - books, serials, archives, manuscripts, sound recordings, film etc. in many languages. | |
SCRAN | Digital materials representing history and culture. | |
Serials in Boston Spa | Lists titles and holdings as in 1999, of the British Library Document Supply Centre, the British Library Humanities and Social Sciences, the British Library Science Reference and Information Service, Cambridge University Library and the Science Museum Library. | |
Sir Fflint | Photographic material and maps of places in Flintshire, held at the county's Archives. | |
Social Science Citation Index | References (some with abstracts) to articles in over 1,725 journals, spanning 50 disciplines. It also covers relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. | |
Sound and Moving Image Materials (to 2000) | Database of approximately 50,000 sound and moving image titles, including off-air recordings from 1980 to 2000. | |
Sound and Moving Image Materials: off-air recordings (2000 to date) | This database is only searchable by NSSAW staff. | |
SUNCAT | A union catalogue of periodicals and their locations in the UK, consisting of print and electronic titles, including journals, magazines, newspapers, proceedings, annual reports and other continuing publications. | |
Swetswise | Comprehensive collection of academic and professional publications. The Library subscribes to around 70 titles at the moment. - Logon using ATHENS - Logon if you are using a Library PC |
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The Times and The Sunday Times, 1990- | Full text database of the two newspapers organised into headings - arts, books, business, diary, law, reports, leading articles, letters etc. 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998-2002 | |
Times Digital Archive 1785-1985 | Search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London) using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting. - Logon using ATHENS - Logon if you are using a Library PC |
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Times Literary Supplement | Contains articles, reviews, letters and comments from the world's most influential literary review, with selected illustrations from October 1994 onwards. | |
UK Official Publications | Official catalogue of the UK government publications including many archived documents. | |
Ulrich's | Current information about serials published throughout the world. | |
Victorian Database | An indispensable source of information on every important publication from 1945 - 2005 on every field of Victorian studies. | |
Victorian Pioneers Index | Index of all births, deaths and marriages recorded between 1847 and 1888, held by the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages in Victoria, Australia. Covers early church records before 1853, and the index to civil registrations to 1888. | |
Western Mail 1995-1998 | Full text of the Western Mail, South Wales Echo and Wales on Sunday from August 1995 to 1998. | |
Who's Who 1897-1996 | Over 100,000 biographies in this amalgamation of 9 volumes of Who's Who. | |
Wing Short Title Catalogue | Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and British America and of English Books printed in other countries, 1641-1700. Compiled by Donald Wing. | |
ZETOC British Library Electronic Table of Contents | Access to the tables of contents of around 20,000 current journals and around 16,000 conference proceedings published per year. The database covers 1993 to date, and is updated on a daily basis. |
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