History Study Centre Rob Newman and Jennifer Jackson

Quick Search box now on every page

Specialised search and browse screens for five content types.

Five content types

• Study Units bring together the most relevant content on over 500 important topics.

• Find historical newspaper articles, official documents, speech transcripts and many more primary source texts using Historical Documents.

• Maps & Reference includes encyclopedias and historical dictionaries; topic overviews; and thousands of historical maps, including animated maps.

• Multimedia searches thousands of historical images plus video clips and selected Web links.

• Search and browse issues from 60 history journals.

• Study Units bring together essential information and rare documents, and encourage further research.

• Each Study Unit contains between 30-120 articles, documents and images selected for their relevance to the topic.

• Study Units cover over 500 topics, from ancient Mesopotamia to contemporary America.

Study Units

Search for Study Units by subject keyword

• Primary sources are essential to historical study at all levels.

• Thousands of texts from a wide range of sources.

• Most documents include explanatory commentary.

• Additional page-image documents are included in Study Units, some digitised for the first time.

Historical Documents

Check Study Units for many more page image primary source documents.

• A library of over fifty respected reference volumes, including encyclopaedias, historical atlases and historiographical guides, plus 79 topic overviews.

• All volumes can be browsed through Tables of Contents.

• Maps can be easily scrolled and zoomed, or downloaded in PDF format.

Maps & Reference

• Search an archive of thousands of historical images, from early woodcuts to modern news photography.

• View hundreds of clips from the WPA Film Library, some dating back to the end of the nineteenth century.

• Links to over 2,000 editorially assured history resources on the Web.

• All images and video clips are given detailed captions which places them in historical context and aids searching.

Multimedia

• Search and browse thousands of full text articles from 60 journals.

• Regularly updated with new issues.• Titles include History Today, English

Historical Review and Historian.• Additional selected articles, including

backfile articles, are included in appropriate Study Units.

Journals

Comprehensive- Coverage of all eras back to ancient times- Global coverage including Atlas of African

History, Dictionary of Modern Arab History, c. 50 Study Units on non-Western history

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Reliable- Reference works from respected

publishers such as Penguin, Taylor & Francis

- In-house historical expertise used for selection and captioning

- Journals from scholarly publishers and quality commercial publishers

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Selective- Only the most appropriate content is

included- Expert editorial mediation, selecting

material for Study Units, makes it easier to find relevant content on a topic

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• International Coverage• Comprehensive coverage makes HSC

relevant to Asian, African, Australian history etc – not just US/UK

• Strong coverage of American history is also important around the world

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• Comprehensive• Reliable• Selective

An authoritative history resource which is as easy to use as Google

History Study Centre