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AM Research Skills is a resource which helps researchers to gain skills in approaching primary sources such as newspapers, photographs, letters, objects, films and more. The Research Skills Foundations module contains almost 200 essays, videos, guides and case studies which describe how primary sources can be interrogated and used in academic research. Alongside the Foundations module, Strathclyde also provides access to the module Interrogating Colonial Documents and Narratives, which introduces the key considerations concerned with studying colonial history. This resource will be of interest to anyone who wishes to use primary sources in their research, assignments or essays.
This resource is published by AM, formerly known as Adam Matthew.
Please read the Additional Information before accessing this eResource.
Digimap is an online map and data delivery service, offering a number of data collections. Historic Digimap contains historical Ordnance Survey maps of Great Britain.
Please note - downloading data for use in GIS or CAD applications requires specialised software which is NOT available on PCs in the Library.
Users should sign in to this resource using University email address and password. First time users (and users who have not accessed Digimap in over 12 months) will also be prompted to register an account. All users must agree to the end user licence for the relevant Digimap Collection(s) they wish to access.
Use your University of Strathclyde email address when registering. Users are not required to create a separate password for this resource.
Digimap’s Privacy Notice can be viewed via a link in the registration form.
This service from Alexander Street provides more than 100,000 videos, images, and sound recordings covering a wide range of academic subjects. Formerly known as JISC MediaHub.
When accessing this resource from the A to Z or SUPrimo database records, on-campus users will be signed in automatically, but off-campus users will need to go through the following steps:
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Access to data from the ESDS (Economic and Social Data Service) and Census data for 1971-2021. Includes data from International Energy Agency, World Bank, OECD, United Nations, Human Rights Atlas, International Monetary Fund.
Users should sign in to this resource using University credentials. First time users will also be prompted to register an account. Please follow the UK Data Service's instructions on How to register if you are a UK academic user before accessing this resource for the first time.
Use your University of Strathclyde email address when registering. Users are not required to create a separate password for this resource.
UK Data Service's Privacy policy and Terms & Conditions can be viewed via links on the site.
Mass Observation Online provides access to digitised versions of manuscripts and papers collected by the Mass Observation organisation in Britain during the period 1937 to the mid 1950s. It provides insights into daily lives and routines and provides access to primary sources of interest to those researching or studying historical, sociological or anthropological subjects.
See also Mass Observation Project.
Formerly titled 'War, State and Society'. The 'British Society, 1939-1951' resource provides access to thousands of documents from the collections of eleven U.K. government departments, each responsible for dealing with and reporting on the domestic situation in Britain during the Second World War and its aftermath. Sourced from The National Archives (U.K.) and the History of Advertising Trust, these files provide an insight into the social, economic, political and cultural affairs of wartime Britain, and a snapshot of day-to-day life in every corner of the country and beyond. This resource is cross-searchable with Secret Files from World War to Cold War on the History Commons platform.
A useful resource for anyone studying or researching maritime history. The atlas from Prize Papers Online makes available a sample of the Prize Papers’ interrogations. Providing a wealth of information about ships and their crews, the interrogations are part of the Prize Paper Archive. These interrogations provide insights into the workings of the maritime sector during the Age of Sail. The data available on Prize Papers Online: Atlas covers the period between 1775 and 1783. 199 records are available with interrogations.
If you require assistance accessing the Atlas, please refer to our 'How to Access Prize Papers Online: Atlas' document.
Access to African American newspapers covering the period 1827-1998. This resource includes over 350 newspapers which chronicle over 150 years of the African American experience. Titles from over 35 states are included. Strathclyde has access to both Series 1 (1827-1998) and Series 2 (1835-1956).
Coverage spans life in the Antebellum South; the spread of abolitionism; growth of the Black church; the Emancipation Proclamation; the Jim Crow Era; the Great Migration to northern cities, the West and Midwest in search of greater opportunity; rise of the NAACP; the Harlem Renaissance; the civil rights movement; political and economic empowerment; and more. Search here to find firsthand perspectives on notable Americans from Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington to W.E.B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as obituaries, advertisements, editorials and illustrations.
These newspapers are searched via the America's Historical Newspaper platform.
Access to over 140 newspapers from Ireland. Coverage dates vary per title with some titles included from 1738 and some titles included up to the present day. A useful resource for anyone studying, teaching or researching Irish history.
The Irish Newspaper Archive does not currently display links to the following policies. We have included links here:
Access to over 26,000 digitised pamphlets covering the 19th century. Useful for those researching the history, politics and society of the time period.
The London Stage is a reference work documenting theatrical performances in eighteenth-century London. The resource covers performances from the period 1660-1800. Information has been compiled from the playbills, newspapers and theatrical diaries of the period. It is possible to search by actor, role, performance, theatre or date.
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals (Part One) covers the advent of commercial lifestyle publishing in Britain. Content is drawn from the collections of the British Library, National Library of Scotland, National Library of Australia, and National Library of South Africa. Topics covered include the rarely documented aspects of women, children, humour, and leisure activity in the Victorian age. The rise of magazine publishing is reflected in the selection of publications, which spans publications aimed at and tailored to various audiences, including women and children.
You can either search Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals on its own here, or with other primary sources using Gale Primary Sources.
Looking for biographical sources? See our listing on the History LibGuide or our Genealogy LibGuide
Please note that the Jisc Historical Texts resource will be retired on 31st July 2024. Strathclyde are in the process of arranging alternate access to EEBO and ECCO from August 2024.
Full text or page images of over 400,000 books published in England from 1475 to 1900. The service includes EEBO (Early English Books Online), ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online), Nineteenth Century Books from the British Library Collection, and also the UK Medical Heritage Library.
This resource currently displays a message stating that we have limited Trial access. Please see the Additional Information in this record.
Access to Early English Books Online, a collection of over 146,000 titles listed in Pollard and Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) and the Early English Books Online Supplement. This resource provides access to digital facsimile page images of virtually every work published in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works printed in English elsewhere between 1473 and 1700. This resource was previously accessible as part of the Jisc Historical Texts service.
Strathclyde's subscription access to EEBO on the ProQuest platform will begin in August. ProQuest have activated trial access in advance of this date, to prevent any loss of access to EEBO between Jisc Historical Texts closing on 31st July and our ProQuest EEBO subscription starting. Once our subscription access begins, the message on the resource stating that we have limited trial access will disappear.