Online references
A range of excellent, free research resources
You can access all of them directly in the library. All except Ancestry can be accessed outside the library: just enter your library membership number at the prompt (e.g. 24102001234567)
You can browse through newspaper archives and look up words and definitions, synonyms, antonyms, rhymes and a whole lot more!
Ancestry Library Edition
Major family history resource including UK & Ireland Census
collections 1841-1901, plus birth, marriage and death records ... and
much more. Only available in the library.
Britannica Junior
Encyclopaedia Britannica for ages 5-11.
Britannica Student
Encyclopaedia Britannica for ages 12 - 18.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica for ages 18+.
Issues Online
Aimed primarily at students wishing to gain a better understanding of the world around them and the issues which affect their lives, but useful to anyone researching social issues.
John Johnson
How they lived then... Thousands of items of printed ephemera, including advertisements, entertainment posters and playbills as well as contemporary pamphlets from crimes, murders and executions!
Oxford Art Online
Combines the 45,000 articles of the Grove Dictionary of Art with the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopaedia of Aesthetics and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond.
Oxford Dictionaries Pro - **NEW!**
Up-to-date online dictionaries and thesauruses based on the largest language research programme in the world; plus expert advice on style, usage, grammar, and spelling, and specialist guides for legal and technical writing
Oxford English Dictionary
The most extensive dictionary of the English language and its origins.
Oxford Music Online
Full text of the New Grove Dictionaries of Music & Musicians, Opera and Jazz.
Oxford Reference Online
Brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource.
Times Digital Archive
Times Newspaper 1785-1985 cover-to-cover.
