History
Your Subject Librarian is Lucia Al-Talal
If you need any support finding History resources, interpreting, and using them in your work please contact me!
email: Laltalal@wmsf.ac.uk
This page contains a list of Dewey numbers for History. Each book has a Dewey number on a spine label on the book that ascends, from left to right, in numerical order on the shelves. If you get stuck, ask a member of the team to help.
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Relevant Databases
JSTOR provides you with a vast selection of academic journals and primary source titles relevant to History. This database will be especially useful for students completing the NEA.
Gale Onefile: High School Edition. With over 1100 titles, cross-searchable with E-Books, this periodical database is designed for high-school students with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers, podcasts, and reference books. Useful for all subjects taught at WMSF.
Wider Web
Sources about the seventeenth century, from 1600 to 1699. Materials are tagged by period based on how much that period is covered in the text, and how much of that text covers the period. The period category is applied to the entire publication, rather than small book sections.
Fordham Modern Internet Sourcebook
Fordham University in the USA has digitised and catalogued a huge collection of primary historical resources from the early modern to the end of the modern period useful for the A-level historian.
History Essay Writing Guides
Top Tips for Academic History Essays