Tips for Searching for Books
Examples of Subject headings:
Great Britain—History (Also Scotland, Ireland, or Wales—History, etc.)
Great Britain – History – Tudors, 1485-1603 (or other period)
Great Britain—History — Elizabeth, 1558-1603 (or other monarch)
Great Britain--Politics and Government--18th Century (or other time period)
Great Britain--Economic Conditions --19th Century
Parish registers: Look in online and card catalog under:
REGISTERS OF BIRTHS, ETC. -- COUNTY, ENGLAND
Local record society publications: in catalog under:
COUNTY NAME, ENGLAND--HISTORY (e.g., Essex, England--History)
Primary sources:
Use SOURCES as sub-heading, eg:
Great Britain -- History – Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Sources
Diaries:
Use DIARIES as a sub-heading or keyword (or see Matthews, British Diaries, in Reference)
Other useful keywords: Papers, correspondence, biography, pamphlets, manuscripts, maps,
Great Britain—History (Also Scotland, Ireland, or Wales—History, etc.)
Great Britain – History – Tudors, 1485-1603 (or other period)
Great Britain—History — Elizabeth, 1558-1603 (or other monarch)
Great Britain--Politics and Government--18th Century (or other time period)
Great Britain--Economic Conditions --19th Century
Parish registers: Look in online and card catalog under:
REGISTERS OF BIRTHS, ETC. -- COUNTY, ENGLAND
Local record society publications: in catalog under:
COUNTY NAME, ENGLAND--HISTORY (e.g., Essex, England--History)
Primary sources:
Use SOURCES as sub-heading, eg:
Great Britain -- History – Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Sources
Diaries:
Use DIARIES as a sub-heading or keyword (or see Matthews, British Diaries, in Reference)
Other useful keywords: Papers, correspondence, biography, pamphlets, manuscripts, maps,
British and Irish Studies
Books and Dissertations
Finding books and Dissertations at Duke
- Duke Online Catalog
Books, journals, films, manuscripts, CDs and all holdings of Duke's libraries (except articles) - Current Reseach at Duke
Full-text of Duke dissertations since 1996.
Book Reviews
Book Review Index
This is the best index for reviews of scholarly books.
Finding Books and Dissertations not at Duke
- Center for Research Libraries
The online catalog of a cooperative, member-based library in Chicago with a collection of over 2.4 million titles of specialized research materials. As a Duke libraries user, you can borrow materials on indefinite loan. They have an extensive collection of international newspapers on microfilm and several large microfilm sets of interest to British Studies, such as the State Papers Ireland . - WorldCat
Contains more than 40 million records describing items owned by libraries around the world. - Index to Theses (British and Irish)
An index to theses accepted for higher degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland from 1970. Abstracts are included for all records.
- Dissertation Abstracts
Dissertations accepted at accredited institutions since 1861. Covers most U.S. institutions, and some from Canada and other countries. - Global Books in Print
Find books published in the UK, Ireland, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
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