LibGuides: British History (Yale-NUS College): Books

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Subject Headings

Use the following subject headings when searching LINC to target resources in your topic.

Great Britain -- History

Ireland -- History

Call numbers

DA1 - DA 995 Britain

DA20 - DA690 England

DA700 - DA745 Wales

DA750 - DA890 Scotland

DA900 - DA995 Ireland

Finding Background Information

The NUS Libraries have significant print resources relating to British History. Below is an abridged list of resources to get you started. Remember that the Library organizes information by SUBJECT. So, items that are similar in topic will be grouped together by Call Number.

Reference Materials - Getting Started

The Oxford Companion to British History by John Cannon (Editor)
Call Number: Central Library Ref DA34 Oxf 2002
ISBN: 0198605145
Publication Date: 2003-04-03
Details the people and events that have shaped and defined life in Britain over 2,000 years of change. Includes more than 4,000 entries that offer a wealth of information and insight into the social, political, economic, scientific, cultural, and military aspects of the history of Britain.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography by H. C. G. Matthew (Editor); Brian Harrison (Editor)
ISBN: 9780198614111
Publication Date: 2004-09-23
A collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of men and women who have shaped all aspects of the British past, from the earliest times to the end of the year 2000, from the ancient (explorer Pytheas of the 4th Century BC) to the modern (Princess Diana).

Bibliographies

A guide to the sources of British military history
Central Library Closed Stacks and Reference: Z2021 Mil.H
A select bibliography for the study, sources, and literature of English medieval economic history
Central Library Reference: Z2018 Hal
Bibliography of British history ; the eighteenth century, 1714-1789
Central Library Reference: Z2018 Par
Bibliography of British history, 1914-1989
Central Library Reference: Z2019 Han
Bibliography of British history, Tudor period, 1485-1603
Central Library Reference: Z2017.5 Rea
Bibliography of historical writings published in Great Britain and the Empire, 1940-1945
Central Library Reference: Z6201 Fre
Bibliography of Imperial, Colonial, and Commonwealth History since 1600
Central Library Reference: Z2016 Bib 2002
British anatomy, 1525-1800 : a bibliography of works published in Britain, America, and on the Continent
Central Library Closed Stacks: Z6662 Rus
Reader's Guide to British History
Central Library Reference: DA34 Loa 2003
Tudor England, 1485-1603
Central Library Reference: Z2017.5 Lev
Women in English social history, 1800-1914 : a guide to research
Central Library Closed Stacks: Z7964 Gre.Ka
Women, 1870-1928 : a select guide to printed and archival sources in the United Kingdom
Central Library Closed Stacks: HQ1593 Bar
Writings on British History
Central Library Reference: Z 2016 Wri
Writings on British history : a bibliography of books and articles on the history of Great Britain
Central Library Closed Stacks: 942.0016R812

Atlases

Atlas of Anglo-Saxon England
Central Library Closed Stacks: G1815 Hil
Atlas of British Overseas Expansion
Central Library Reference: DA530 Atl
Atlas of the British Empire
Central Library Reference: JV1027 Atl
The Debt Atlas of British History
Central Library Reference: G1811 His.Gi
The Routledge Atlas of British History
Central Library Reference: G1811 His.G 2003

Chronologies

A handbook of dates : for students of British history
Central Library Reference: DA34 Han 2004
Great deaths : grieving, religion, and nationhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain
Central Library Closed Stacks: HQ1073.5 Gre.Wo
Handbook of British Chronology
Central Library Reference: DA34 Han

Dictionaries

A Dictionary of British history
Central Library Reference: DA34 Oxf
A dictionary of British history, 1815-1973
Central Library Reference: DA34 Hug
A dictionary of British place-names
Central Library Reference: DA645 Mil 2003
A dictionary of Irish place-names
Central Library Reference: DA979 Roo
Collins dictionary of British history
Central Library Reference: DA34 Col
Dictionary of the British empire and Commonwealth
Central Library Reference: DA18 Pal
Historical dictionary of the United Kingdom
Central Library Reference: DA34 Pan (2 vol.)
Macmillan dictionary of British and European history since 1914
Central Library Reference: D424 Mac
Oxford companion to British history
Central Library Reference: DA34 Oxf 2002
(1997 edition available in CL Closed Stacks)
The Oxford companion to twentieth-century British politics
Central Library Reference: DA566.7 Oxf 2005