Library of Congress Subject Headings

The LCSH helps you find related information on your topic. If you locate relevant books in a keyword search, try clicking on the subject links to find more resources on this subject. Here are some examples of subject headings related to the British Empire:
Websites
- BBC British HistoryLinks to numerous articles and information from 1066-present. Covers military history, foreign relations, and other topics.
- British History OnlineA digital library containing primary and secondary sources from medieval to present-day Britain.
- Irish History OnlineAn authoritative guide to what has been written about Irish history from earliest times to the present. It currently contains over 75,000 bibliographic records.
- National Archives of the UKThe UK government's official archive, containing over 1,000 years of history.
- Recovered Histories18th & 19th century literature digitized from the Anti-Slavery International archives.
- Scotland's HistoryA very informative site from the BBC.
Databases
- Colonial State Papers Provides access to thousands of papers concerning English activities in the American, Canadian, and West Indian colonies between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.
- Dissertations and Theses-Full Text Looking at other dissertations and theses is a great way to find original research on your topic.
- Early English Books Online Contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement.
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)Primary documents on a variety of subjects, by a variety of authors. An companion to Early English Books Online (EEBO).
- Historical Abstracts Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered by the complementary America: History and Life database) from 1450 to the present.
- Humanities International Complete Includes full text for more than 770 journals.
- JSTOR Full-text archival collection of scholarly journals covering a large number of subjects.
- MLA International Bibliography Articles on literature, language, and much more.
- Project Muse Articles from academic journals on history, culture, society, and more.
- World History Collection
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