Tagged: History

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Finding open access academic research (without needing to log in)

*This post has been edited following the resolution of IT issues that the University experienced in October 2021.* Next week is Open Access Week all over the world, but at University of Sunderland we're...
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LGBTQI+ New Archives

Studying MSc Inequality and Society? Visit our Inequality and Society Useful Resources list where we have added two new archives on LGBTQI+. The archives are both in the LGBTQI+ section and are: The Digital...

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Box of Broadcasts help videos

How are you getting on with using Box of Broadcasts? Isn’t it a brilliant resource?! For anyone who hasn’t discovered it yet, Box of Broadcasts (often know as BoB) is an on-demand TV &...

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How to do historical newspaper research, 1600-1900

The Library subscribes to the British Newspapers 1600-1900 collection which gives you access to thousands of scanned newspapers from three different archival collections: British Library Newspapers Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century...

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Free webinars for PhD students

Calling all researchers! What do you know about the British Library? Does it have anything relevant to your research? The British Library are running a series of webinars in the new year where you...