Politics

Online Resources

• CREDOreference includes:
  • Dictionary of Politics and Government
  • Blackwell Dictionary of Political Science

• Oxford Reference Online includes:
  • Dictionary of Political Biography
  • Oxford Companion to Politics of the World
  • Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - Look through over 50,000 biographies of men and women who shaped Britain's past, as well as various Themes, which include Politics: British Isles & Overseas.

• Who's Who and Who Was Who - Who's Who includes information on over 33,000 influential people in British public life, and Who Was Who is an historical archive of over 90,000 deceased people previously in Who's Who.

• NewsUK - search through national and local newspapers.  Also has useful news topics on a variety of issues including politics.

• Help Yourself - search for local clubs and organisations including Political Parties and Groups.

Resources available in the library:

• A wide range of newspapers and journals covering current political issues and personalities
• Historical primary sources on microfiche and microfilm on Trade Union history and the alternative political press in Britain
• Evans Collection of Pamphlets – social and economic tracts, 1900-1940