LibGuides: History: Featured databases

Featured databases

If you're not sure where to begin finding scholarly journal articles, why not consider starting your search with a few databases that we have selected for you? They're amongst the best around, with all of them having been compiled by academics and experts in the field, who update them on a regular basis. For a larger selection, just click here to view the complete catalogue listing of our history databases.

Australian Literary and Historical Texts
A collection of over 220 Australian primary-source texts available in full text, including historical records from settlement to the early twentieth century and key works from leading Australian literary figures from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Source documents include fiction, poetry, plays, reports and journals.

British History Online
Access to some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Source documents include Journals of the Houses of Commons and Lords, guides and calendars, gazetteers and dictionaries, and maps.
Historical Abstracts
A comprehensive database of world history (excluding the United States and Canada). Topics range from the Renaissance to the present. The database includes citations and abstracts to articles from historical, social science and humanities journals, books and dissertations in more than 50 languages.
Humanties Full Text
Provides full text, abstracts and bibliographic indexing of scholarly sources in the humanities and specialized magazines. Source documents include: feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama, poetry, book reviews, reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, and radio and television programs.
Informit Indigenous Collection
Multidisciplinary resources which offers both topical and historical issues within Indigenous studies. With material from Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, North America and The Pacific.
Taylor & Francis Online Journals
This database includes peer-reviewed journal titles in the areas of humanities, social sciences and applied sciences, and includes most of the journals published by Taylor & Francis. Abstracts, table of contents and full text is provided for the journal titles included.
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
The Archive provides the full text facsimile edition of the Supplement from 1902 to 2005. It offers reviews of major books of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, as well as essays and criticism in the areas of art, architecture, economics, exploration, history, music, philosophy, politics, religion, sport, science and medicine.

Women's Studies
A breadth of printed and manuscript sources over four centuries, providing a multitude of perspectives on the changing roles of women in history. This collection offers access to the works and legacy of many notable and influential women, but also a chance to hear the voices of forgotten and ordinary women. It includes papers and rare printed works of important female writers and thinkers; life writing and autobiographies of a range of 18th and 19th century women; the papers of Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragette, political activist and campaigner; diaries and correspondence of aristocratic women, giving insights into the social, political and cultural history of rich and powerful women of the 18th and 19th centuries; women's travel writing - manuscript and printed accounts of women travellers, missionaries, tourists and women living across the British Empire.