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History and Politics: Specialist resources

Resources for students studying History, History and Politics, and Philosophy and Politics

JSTOR Primary Source collections

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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.

JSTOR Daily

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.

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Newspapers

Newspapers

Search for articles in national or regional newspapers, some going back to the 1980s.  

  • Useful for an understanding of how the media and different local areas respond to events
  • Useful to see how different newspapers report on the same story
  • Contains text only, no images
  • Remember that newspapers are not academic sources, and will often be biased

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 the British Newspaper Archive from within libraries, and give you access to a range of other resources.

JISC Historical Texts

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JISC retired the Historical Texts service on 31st July 2024.

You can access the content at the links below

Additional library resources

Government and politics

UK Government

Other resources

Legal databases

Useful websites and resources

Any list of useful weblinks will not be complete, and will quickly become out of date.  If you would like to recommend a website or would like to tell me about a broken link please contact me or fill in the form below.

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Zines

Zines Collection

Zines

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.