History and Archaeology

• Find useful history and archaeology web sites at Gateway to the Internet > History and archaeology
• For Bedfordshire's history and archaeology, see the separate Local and family history section
• Reference books online - you can search many historical dictionaries and encyclopaedias and an atlas of world history at Credo reference and at Oxford reference online, while you can find works on specific themes at Gale virtual reference library
• Magazines and journals online - the collection includes 'Antiquity', 'British heritage', 'History today' and 'Journal of British studies', among others
• Newspapers online  - you can find news from years ago in the two online newspapers services:
  
  the 'Infotrac custom newspaper database' gives you searchable articles from national daily and Sunday newspapers from July 1985 onwards
  
  the 'Times digital archive 1785 -1985' gives you a fascinating picture of two hundred years of news. You can search and view the complete Times newspaper, including articles, illustrations, photographs and advertisements
• At Encyclopaedia Britannica online you can search for specific facts and for long articles on historical topics. This a particularly good place to look for historical overviews of individual countries. Just search for the country name and then check the menu at the left of the country article to find the 'history' section

Further information

• To find out more about notable individuals in history, see the separate Biography section
• Search for history books on the library catalogue
• If you need help to find information, contact us
   

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Special topics

60th anniversary of the partition of India

What else happened on the day you were born? (Or at other times in history?)

Abolition of the slave trade, in the Global issues section