History
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Online Services
Use our free 24/7 online reference information in your library or at home, all you need is your library card or your smartcard number:
- CREDOreference includes -
- Oxford Reference Online includes -
- Oxford Islamic Studies Online - Over 3,000 A-Z articles from Abd al-Qadir to Zaynab. Visual, geographic and social perspectives on global islam, including maps, illustrations, dynastic tables and demographic charts.
- 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 included in previous editions of Who's Who.
- 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.
- Help Yourself gives details of local historical clubs and societies
Resources available in the library:
We have primary and secondary sources suitable for a wide variety of research purposes including school projects, general interest or in depth study, including:
- Books
- Magazines, eg History Today, The Journal of Modern History
- Historical Society publications including Camden, Thoresby, Surtees, Harleian and Hakluyt Societies
- Military history including regimental histories and the World Wars
- Soldiers Who Died in the Great War – a searchable database on CD
- Ministry of Information photographs from World War II
- Times Newspaper on microfilm and index back to 1785
- Guardian Newspaper on microfilm back to 1956
- British Humanities Index - a database indexing articles in journals
Why not ...
Find out more by visiting the galleries and museums in Sheffield and seeing their collections.
Please note that the inclusion of any website or link on this page does not mean that they have been vetted or recommended by Sheffield City Council. It is important to make sure that you are happy that they are suitable for your own requirements.