Global data and business intelligence platform, including statistics, reports and insights.
Worldwide reports on a range of industries, including:
For example: UK book industry - statistics & facts (2024)
This site contains programmes and photographs from the BBC's Shakespeare archive.
Unique full-length films of current leading productions of Shakespeare plays, modern dramas, musicals and adaptations of classic novels.
Over 600 modern plays from specialist theatre publisher Nick Hern Books featuring pre-eminent playwrights including Howard Brenton, Jez Butterworth, Caryl Churchill, Lucy Kirkwood, Liz Lochhead, Conor McPherson, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Enda Walsh.
Watch freely available collections from the British Film Institute.
A multi-archive collection that provides a wide-ranging and in-depth look at the movement of peoples from Great Britain, Ireland, mainland Europe and Asia to the New World and Australasia during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Access to literature reference works from Wiley Online Library.
JSTOR provides access to a wide range of resources as well as the journal articles for which it is best known. You will find these resources through a general search, but you can also search or browse within individual collections. See a full list of primary source collections here
JSTOR Daily provides context for current events using scholarship found in JSTOR, a digital library of academic journals, books, and other material. We publish articles grounded in peer-reviewed research and provide free access to that research for all of our readers.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) features page images of almost every work printed in the British Isles and North America, as well as works in English printed elsewhere from 1470-1700.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is a vast eighteenth-century library at your desktop—a fully text-searchable corpus of books, pamphlets and broadsides in all subjects printed between 1701 and 1800. It currently contains over 180,000 titles amounting to over 32 million fully-searchable pages.
Search for articles in national or regional newspapers, some going back to the 1980s.
For access to additional resources we strongly recommend that you join Gloucestershire public libraries, or your own local public library service. Membership will enable you to access Borrowbox which includes eBooks, eAudiobooks and also ePress, including both newspapers and magazines.
The new Zines@FCH collection has just been launched.
Zines are a place for people to be able to tell their own stories, through the art of DIY magazines.
Find out more, or drop into the library to have a look.