LibGuides: History of Great Britain and the British Empire: Articles

General Databases with some content on British history

Historical Abstracts
Index to resources on the history of the world from 1450 to the present, excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life.
Academic Search Complete
Scholarly and general interest sources in business, medicine, humanities, social sciences, and science and technology, including books, journal and magazine articles, bibliographies, and trade publications.
JSTOR
Online, full text access to scholarly journals from first publication date to a "moving wall" of 2-5 years from present--i.e., the most recent 2-5 years' worth of issues will not be available at any given time. The archived collection includes journals in humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The content is searchable by author, title, full-text, discipline, year, and article type.
Humanities Source
Provides full text, summaries, and bibliographic information for articles, interviews, obituaries, fiction, reviews of performances and films, and other resources in the humanities.
Access provided by the Frederica Killgore Endowment.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Bibliography comprised of secondary source material pertaining to the Middle Ages and renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books and journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for dissertation abstracts and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, Festschriften, encyclopedias, and exhibition catalogs).
Nexis Uni
Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790— and is a good source for foreign newspapers.
*Previously called Lexis Nexis Academic.
Nexis Uni offers an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
International Medieval Bibliography (IMB)
Publishing information on articles, book chapters, and other scholarly writings from on the medieval period, covering Europe and the Middle East and produced from 1981 onward. Topics include music, art, religion, history, classics, languages, rhetoric, and education. Provides links to either the full text where available at Fondren, or to request items through interlibrary loan.

Part of Brepols Medieval and Early Modern Bibliographies.
Lexikon des Mittelalters & International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages
important encyclopedia for medieval studies, which covers the period from 300 to 1500 AD/CE for the whole of Europe and parts of the Middle East and North Africa.
Dissertations and Theses
Citations for doctoral dissertations from 1861 to the present. Some master's theses are also available. The full texts of dissertations and theses added since 1997 (since 1918 for Rice theses) may be downloaded.
IBZ International Bibliography of Periodical Literature
Publishing information for articles and journals in the humanities and social sciences, including the subject, publisher, article summaries (abstracts), author, language of publication. Searchable in German and English.
Periodicals Index Online
Periodicals Index Online began as Periodicals Contents Index at Harvard University. Articles from over 900 humanities and social sciences periodicals with nineteenth century content have been indexed. (1790-1919)
Web of Knowledge
WoK is a database platform providing content in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
Zeitschriftendatenbank
The largest database of periodicals and serials in the world. It contains over 1,2 million titles in all languages, published from 1500 to the present day.

Specialized databases for British history

Bibliography of British and Irish History
Bibliographic data on historical writing on the British Isles, the British Empire and Commonwealth, and Ireland covering 55 BCE to the present.
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index
Finding aids and bibliographic information for books, periodicals, newspapers, and other publications from the nineteenth century, in literature, law, history, then-contemporary issues, and other subjects.
Included sources:
- Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue
- The Nineteenth Century
- American Periodicals
- British Periodicals
- Cotgreave's Index
- An Index to Legal Periodical Literature
- Cumulative Index to Niles' Register 1811-1849
- Periodicals Index Online
- Poole's Index to Periodical Literature
- Stead's Index to Periodical Literature
- The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900
- House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
- Proceedings of the Old Bailey
- The U.S. Serial Set
- Archive Finder
- Palmer's Index to The Times
- The "Bookman" Directory of Booksellers, Publishers and Authors
- Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism
Eight Centuries: 1106-1960
Primary materials published from the 12th century to 1960 covering the humanities, social sciences, engineering, history of science, law, economics, religion, psychology, government documents, visual arts, music, and the physical sciences.
Fondren owns access to Series I and V.
Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
Provides structured information relating to all the recorded inhabitants of England from the late sixth to the late eleventh century.