LibGuides@Southampton: History: More Resources

Historic Digimap

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Historic Digimap offers a range of historical Ordnance Survey mapping data products from 1843 to 1996. A range of online tools are available to facilitate viewing, interrogation and download of these products.
Ancient Roam allows you to view historical Ordnance Survey maps from the 1840s to the 1990s. Zoom through 12 different levels from maps at 1:500 to 1:10 560 in scale; view the same location for two different points in time to see what has changed. Land Use Map Viewer is a simple interface for viewing the Dudley Stamp Land Use maps created in the 1930s, compare 1930s Land Use map with contemporary OS map and search for location by place name or coordinates. For current maps use Digimap Ordnance Survey.

Historical Statistics

Inflation: the value of the pound 1750-2011 This link opens in a new window
A House of Commons Library research report on how the purchasing power of the pound has changed between 1750-2011.

Family History

Using the Hartley Library for Family History

It is worth noting that although visitors are welcome, the University Library’s main mission is to support the staff and students of the University and so there will be times when we are extremely busy doing this and therefore have to limit the time that we can give to family history queries. The guide below will give advice on resources available to you along with some tips should you need to visit us.

The Bodleian Libraries’ LibGuide for Disability History resources

The Bodleian Libraries’ LibGuide for Disability History resources
This fully accessible guide was created by Alice Shepard, the 2022-23 History Faculty Library trainee, as part of her year-long project and following a hackathon event at the History Faculty, Oxford, in December 2022.

• Over resources 200 resources cover a great variety of topics and for different historical periods (ancient to contemporary history). The disabilities covered are wide ranging and include, for instance, autism, birth defects, chronic pain, hearing loss /deafness, learning disabilities, mental illness, mobility disabilities, visual impairment, and more.

• Resources were also selected for aspects of disability relating to education, employment, medical technologies, stigma and war. The materials themselves may be archives, audio-visual, biographies, books, journals, legislation, newspapers, theses and websites.

Archives from Adam Matthew

America in World War Two This link opens in a new window
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Uncover the stories of American military personnel and civilians during the Second World War through their oral histories, correspondence, diaries, photographs, artifacts, and military records. This digital resource offers an insight into the personal experiences of those involved in the conflict, both on the United States home front and on deployment overseas in Europe, the Mediterranean, the Pacific, China, Burma and India.
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London Low Life is a full-text searchable resource, containing colour digital images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to 18th, 19th and early 20th century London. It is designed for both teaching and study, from undergraduate to research students and beyond.
Mass Observation Project: 1981-2009 This link opens in a new window
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Launched in 1981 by the University of Sussex as a rebirth of the original 1937 Mass Observation, its founders' aim was to document the social history of Britain by recruiting volunteers to write about their lives and opinions. Still growing, it is one of the most important sources available for qualitative social data in the UK. Mass Observation Project consists of all the directives sent out by Mass Observation and the responses to them from the hundreds of Mass Observers.
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Nineteenth Century Literary Society offers unprecedented digital access to the peerless archive of the historic John Murray publishing company. This digital resource enables researchers to discover the golden age of the company that published genre-defining titles including Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, Austen’s Emma, and Livingstone’s Missionary Travels.
Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions in Victorian Britain This link opens in a new window
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Discover what life was like for the poorest communities in Victorian Britain, and explore the government policy, social reform movements and philanthropic efforts of charitable institutions that sought to alleviate poverty.
Service Newspapers of World War Two This link opens in a new window
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This digital resource reveals the story of war as told by the newspapers that brought information, entertainment and camaraderie to the forces at home and overseas. Explore over 300 titles from key nations across the globe that took part in the world-changing conflict.
Sex and Sexuality This link opens in a new window
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This collection explores changing attitudes towards human sexuality, gender identities and sexual behaviors throughout the twentieth century. Investigate the breadth and complexity of human sexual understanding through the work of leading American sexologists, sex researchers, organizations and the public consciousness.
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Victorian Popular Culture is a portal comprised of four modules, inviting users into the darkened halls, small backrooms, big tops and travelling venues that hosted everything from spectacular shows and bawdy burlesque, to the world of magic, spiritualist séances, optical entertainments and the first moving pictures.
Womens Studies - AM Scholar This link opens in a new window
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This collection offers access to the works and legacy of many notable and influential women, but also a chance to hear the voices of forgotten and ordinary women. A breadth of printed and manuscript sources over four centuries, providing a multitude of perspectives on the changing roles of women in history.
World War Two Studies - AM Scholar This link opens in a new window
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Important primary sources, offering insight into many aspects of the conflict, including government policy, the war in the Pacific, and the war in Europe. Sources include the records of the Special Operations Executive; and private papers of American General Robert L Eichelberger, from the Pacific war.

Library of Congress Digital Library

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The digitised collections from the Library of Congress includes topics such as American history, government, law & politics, art history, business history and many more.

Images

British Cartoon Archive This link opens in a new window
The website of the Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature at the University of Kent, Canterbury. One of the worlds largest electronic archive of cartoons, the BCA holds a catalogued database of over 200,000 images.
Images held on the BCA catalogue can only be reproduced if you have permission from the copyright holder.
British Library : Images Online This link opens in a new window
Provides access to thousands of images taken from the British Library's collections which include manuscripts, rare books, musical texts and maps spanning almost 3000 years. The range of images available include illustrations, drawings, paintings and photographs.
Images from this website cannot be reproduced without permission from the British Library.
National Gallery Collections This link opens in a new window
Images from the National Gallery's collection of Western European painting spanning 1260 to 1900.
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Search the Picture Library at the National Portrait Gallery.
Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
Online art encyclopaedia, including the Grove Art Online, which provides extensive coverage of all aspects of art & design and includes an online image gallery. Please note, this does not include access to Benezit Dictionary of Artists.
Smithsonian Institution This link opens in a new window
Provides access to images of objects held in the Smithsonian's collection.

Media

Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers more than 62,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counselling, film, health, history, music, and more.
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An off-air recording and media archive service that allows you to record TV and radio programmes scheduled for broadcast over the next seven days as well as retrieving programmes from the last seven days from a selected list of channels. In addition, you can watch programmes from the archive, create clips, and compile your favourite shows into playlists. Further information
Please switch off Global Protect for off-campus access.
Due to E.U legislation, any UK registered students in the EU will not be able to access BoB (apart from the BBC News Channel* ) from 1st January 2021.
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Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video platform for public libraries and universities that offers films and documentaries.The service includes features such as captions, transcripts, clip creation, and playlist creation that allow users to share videos.

Please note: You will need to create a personal account to access Kanopy through either the mobile or TV apps. Creating an account on Kanopy will also allow you to save videos to your Watchlist to view later, create clips and playlists.

For more help creating an account, click here
Visual History Archive This link opens in a new window
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An extensive online portal that allows users to search through and view more than 54,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide. Please note: you will need to register on the site to use features such as “My Projects/Bookmarked Projects/Shared Projects”.

Newsreel

Newsreel were short current affairs films shown mainly in cinemas up until about the 1960s. They have become significant historical sources as they are often the only moving image record of some historical events. The Pathe newsreels are on a dedicated website (below) and JISC MediaHub (also below) gives access to British Paramount News (1931-1957), Gaumont British News (1934-1959) and Gaumont Graphic Newsreel (1910-1934)

Pathe News This link opens in a new window
British newsreel collection 1896-1970.