The largest encyclopaedia of the visual arts from prehistory to the present day. Students, artists, art lovers - this is for you.

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BFI Screenonline is the "definitive guide to Britain's film and TV history". You can view and download extracts (for private or educational use).

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More than 50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.

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Search for information about famous and influential people of today and from the past, going back to 1898.

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The Complete Business Reference Adviser (COBRA) is an encyclopedia of practical information for anyone involved in setting up, running and managing a business enterprise, including business start up guides, management factsheets and UK market sector reports. Please note: Remote access is restricted to 12 Business Information Briefings, 12 Business Opportunities Profiles, and 6 UK Market Synopsis a year. In library access is unlimited.

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Enjoy instant access to every topic imaginable in over 120,000 articles, a world atlas, thousands of images and videos, a dictionary and thesaurus, and a guide to the web's best sites.

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Bringing together 2 million digitized entries across Oxford's Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopaedias, Oxford Reference is the premier online reference product, spanning 25 different subject areas.

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Widely acknowledged as the most authoritative and comprehensive dictionary of English in the world. It also traces the evolution of more then 600,000 words over the last 1,500 years through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of sources.

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Provides access to the 1841 to 1911 UK censuses and contains more than 4 billion names. A simple search using an ancestor's first names and surname can produce some interesting results, which can be viewed, printed or emailed.

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A comprehensive range of national, regional and local newspapers published in 19th century Britain, which reflects the social, political and cultural events of the times. Users can search across a large range of titles, perform full-text searches and view specific article types.

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This collection provides access to thousands of items selected from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, offering unique insights into the changing nature of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Categories include Nineteenth-Century Entertainment, the Booktrade, Popular Prints, Crimes, Murders and Executions, and Advertising.

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Search through the digital edition of The Times (London) 1785 - 2006 using keyword or date searches to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all notices, obituaries, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.

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Access to Research is a unique resource providing free access to some of the world's best academic articles and research. It has over 1.5 million articles, from over 8,500 journals. With in-depth information on art, business, engineering, technology, medicine, history, languages, politics, mathematics, the sciences and much more, this resource is ideal for small businesses, researchers and students alike. This service is a two year pilot of a unique collaboration between librarians and publishers. Please note that publishers have not made all their articles available free of charge.

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A comprehensive range of national, regional and local newspapers published in 19th century Britain, which reflects the social, political and cultural events of the times. Users can search across a large range of titles, perform full-text searches and view specific article types.

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Provides access to the full text of articles from the Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Independent, Times, Daily Mail, Evening Standard, Mirror, People and Sun newspapers (including the Sunday versions where appropriate).

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