Library databases are online resources you can search to find reliable information from trusted sources. Databases can be general or subject specific and can include a wide range of content including full text journal articles, ebooks, reports, abstracts, conference proceedings etc.
Library Search is a database of databases and allows you to search the content of most databases in one go.
Databases are useful resources to search for good quality subject-specific research and find journal articles on a topic. Here are some useful History databases. Unless otherwise specified, you will need your Single Sign On username and password (the same as for MyDMU and email) to access them within and outside the university.
EBSCO's Academic Search Premier is a multi-disciplinary database that provides active full text for more than 3,100 journals, including active full text for nearly 2,750 peer-reviewed titles. The database also includes more than 70,000 videos from the Associated Press. This collection of videos is updated monthly and includes footage from 1930 to the present day.
An online collection of 100 periodicals covering British life in the 19th century.
Essential for understanding Black history and culture, this online resource allows scholars to discover the migrations, communities, and ideologies of the African Diaspora through the voices of people of African descent.
This collection includes never-before digitised primary source documents, including personal papers, organisational papers, journals, newsletters, court documents, letters, and ephemera. The collection has a number of key partners like The National Archives and Records Administration (US), National Archives at Kew (UK), Royal Anthropological Institute, and Senate House Library (University of London).
The Archive of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) and connected collections from UK universities covers a variety of scientific subject areas, including history of science, and government grants for scientific research. It includes grey literature, such as records, correspondence, photographs etc. presented as searchable digital images. Subject areas covered include: astronomy, biology, technology, industrial design, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, agriculture, meteorology, physics, history of science and STEM, and government grants for scientific research.
Archive online newspapers selected from the British Library's collections, including the Leicester Chronicle, from 1840-1900.
EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) is the British Library's database of UK doctoral theses. It holds records for over 600,000 theses, allowing researchers to search theses from UK universities from the 1700s to present day. Users have to register with the site for free access.
This online resource presents the records of major civil rights organisations and personal papers of leaders and observers of the 20th century Black freedom struggle. Civil rights leaders included are labour leader A. Philip Randolph, the long-time civil rights activist and organiser of the March on Washington, Bayard Rustin, and the papers of the pioneering educator Mary McLeod Bethune. Through records of Claude A. Barnett’s Associated Negro Press, the collection also branches out to cover other aspects of African American life in the 20th century, like religion, education, sports and entertainment.
This online collection is comprised of records of several important women’s rights organisations: the National Woman’s Party, the League of Women Voters, and the Women’s Action Alliance. The organisations were concerned with issues such as employment and employment discrimination, childcare, health care and education.
ProQuest Central brings together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.
The UK Parliamentary Papers resource empowers researchers to explore the British perspective on historical and contemporary events through a vast and authoritative archive of official government documents spanning three centuries. DMU Library has online access to documents from the 18th Century, 19th Century and 20th Century.
The 18th Century Collection includes the following material:
Harper Collection of Private Bills (1695-1814)
House of Commons Sessional Papers (1715-1800)
House of Lords Sessional Papers (1714-1805)
Journals of the House of Commons (1688-1834)
Journals of the House of Lords (1688-1834)
Local and Personal Acts (1797-1834)
Parliamentary Register (1780-1796)
The UK Parliamentary Papers resource empowers researchers to explore the British perspective on historical and contemporary events through a vast and authoritative archive of official government documents spanning three centuries. DMU Library has online access to documents from the 18th Century, 19th Century and 20th Century.
The UK Parliamentary Papers resource empowers researchers to explore the British perspective on historical and contemporary events through a vast and authoritative archive of official government documents spanning three centuries. DMU Library has online access to documents from the 18th Century, 19th Century and 20th Century.