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    By: Melissa Finley Gonzalez

    History Reference Librarian

    Updated January 2008

British History Research Guide:
Getting Started

Bibliographies & Catalogs:

Annual Bibliography of British and Irish History. Annual. 1975- (Ref. Z2016 A55)

Texts and Calendars: An Analytical Guide to Serial Publications. 1958. (Ref. Z 2016 M8)

Bibliography of British History. 5 vols. 1959-1977. (Ref. Z 2018-2019)


Dictionaries:

The Cambridge Illustrated Dictionary of British Heritage. 1986. (Ref. DA 110 C254)

A Dictionary of British History. 1983. (Ref. DA 34 D52)

A Dictionary of English Place Names. 1991. (Ref. DA 645 M55)

Historical Dictionary of Tudor England, 1485-1603. (Ref. DA315 .H5 1991)

The Illustrated Dictionary of British History. 1980. (Ref. DA 34 M37)

The Oxford Companion to British History. (Ref. DA34 .O93 1997)


Encyclopedias:

The Cambridge Historical Encyclopedia of Great Britain and Ireland. 1985. (Ref. DA 34 C28)

Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia: British History 1700-1950

Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. (Ref. DA 550 .V53 1988)


Handbooks & Chronologies:

British Historical Facts, 1688-1760. 1988. (Ref. JN 191 C65 1988)

Handbook of British Chronology. 1986. (Ref. DA 34 H34)

The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1987. 1988. (Ref. DA 470 C65)

Timeline of British History


Almanacs & Yearbooks:

Whitaker's Almanack. Annual. 1869- (Ref. AY 754 W5)

Annual Register. Annual. 1760- (D 2 A7) (Earlier volumes in Special Collections.)


Atlases:

Atlas of the British Empire. 1989. (Ref. Atlases DA 16 A8)


Statistical Sources:

Annual Abstract of Statistics. Annual. 1935+ (Ref. HA 1122 A33)

British Historical Statistics. 1988. (Ref. HA 1134 M58)

International Historical Statistics: Europe, 1750-1993. 1998. (Ref. HA 1107 M5 1998)


Biographical Sources:

Dictionary of National Biography. 1917- (Ref. DA 28 D4)

Facts about the British Prime Ministers. (Ref. DA 28.4 .E54 1995)

The History of Monarchy

Who's Who. Annual. 1849- (Ref. DA 28 W6)

Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain. 6 vols. 1849-50. (Spec. Coll. DA 28 L6)


Guides to Records:

British Archives: A Guide to Archive Resources in the United Kingdom. (Ref. CD 1040 F67 1995)

Guide to the Contents of the Public Record Office. 2 vols. 1963-68. (Ref. CD 1043 A553)

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