Online reference resources at home

You can access these online resources at home or on any library computer for free - you just need your library card and pin.

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• 19th Century British Library Newspapers - British newspaper archives including thousands of articles from the 19th Century
  
  Access the British Library website
  
  
• Britannica online - Online encyclopaedias including student and junior editions
  
  Access the Britannica Encyclopaedia standard edition
  Access the Britannica Encyclopaedia student edition 
  Access the Britannica Encyclopaedia junior edition
  
  
• ProQuest UK Newsstand - Regional, national and international newspapers
  
  Access ProQuest UK Newsstand
  
  
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - 56,000 biographies of the people who shaped the history of the British Isles, from the Romans to the 21st century
  
  Access the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  
  
• Oxford English Dictionary - The definitive dictionary of the English language, containing more than 600,000 words
  
  Access the Oxford English Dictionary
  
  
• Oxford Reference Online Premium - Reference books and dictionaries with subjects ranging from folklore to military history. Also bilingual dictionaries and thesauruses
  
  Access the Oxford Reference Online Premium
  
  
• Who's Who - A directory of living noteworthy and influential people in all walks of life, in the UK and worldwide
  
  Access Who's Who
  
  
• Life in Great Britain - Learn, practice and revise for the British Citizenship Test
  
  Access Life in Great Britain
  

• Find out about other online resources you can access in a library