Databases

The British Library Newspapers collection contains full runs of dozens of newspapers specially selected by the British Library. This collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection. Coverage across all parts runs from 1732 -1950

These papers cover the growth of the British Union of Fascists and the impact of World War 2 upon them. The documents include both their official publications and the imprisonment of their leader Oswald Mosley. The pre-war fascist newspapers include Fascist week, The Blackshirt and The East London Pioneer. Other items include official intelligence reports upon both Mosleys

Core aims to aggregate open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and to make then available to the public

Database of Latin Dictionaries (DLD) is a collection of historical, semantic and etymological dictionaries offering tools to understand Latin texts of various genres, periods, countries or regions and analyse Latin vocabulary at different levels and with different focuses and purposes

Lynda.com provides video courses taught by industry experts in software, technology creative and business skills to achieve personal and creative goals. You can browse by subjects such as ‘Design’, ‘IT’ or ‘Business’, view courses for specific ‘Software’ applications or follow ‘Learning Paths’. Many of the courses include materials to download for practice purposes during the video course

Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) is a comprehensive collection of sources for the study of German history from the end of the Roman Empire to 1500. It has primary source material for study of the Middle Ages and extends beyond Germany

Thomson Reuters' Practical Law is a legal know how service containing practice notes, current awareness, global guides and standard documents with links to primary sources and other content within Westlaw UK. Content is arranged into a number of practice areas, including international and cross-border topics.

An open access repository of science methods for researchers to share or discover protocols. The aim of protocols.io is to save researchers time and make research more reproducible.

Springer Nature Experiments consists of Springer Protocols, Nature Protocols, the Protocol Exchange and Nature Methods..
Springer Protocols is a database of over 50,000 biomedicine and life sciences protocols; ‘recipes’ that allow scientists to recreate experiments in their own laboratories.
Nature Protocols similarly provides step-by-step instructions for using and adapting laboratory techniques in biological and biomedical research.
The Protocol Exchange is an Open Repository for the deposition and sharing of protocols for scientific research. These protocols are posted directly on the Protocol Exchange by their authors and hence have not been further styled, peer reviewed or copy edited.
Nature Methods is a journal for research papers describing new methods and methodological developments in the life sciences, as well as practical technical information.

This resource explores the relationship between Britain and Europe from c.1550 to 1850, exploring the Anglo-European response to continental travel for pleasure, business and diplomacy.
This digital collection of manuscript, visual and printed works allows students and researchers to explore and compare a range of sources on the history of travel for the first time, including many from private or neglected collections

Visible Body provides a comprehensive 3D atlas of the human body

The Washington Post offers full text searching back to the first issue in 1877. With coverage up to 2001, full pages and article images are easily-searchable for first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time