Graduate Cluster in British Studies

Northwestern and Online Resources

Archives and Databases

• Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL)*
• Bibliography of British and Irish History
• BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History
• The British Cartoon Archive
• British Literary Manuscripts Online, Medieval and Renaissance*
• British Newspapers 1780-1950*
• British Periodicals Online*
• Charles Booth Online Archive
• The Churchill Era Archives
• City and Trade Directories 1750-1919
• Eighteenth-Century Collections Online*
• Eighteenth-Century Journals*
• Empire Online*
• First World War: A Multimedia History
• First World War Diaries
• The Guardian (1821-2003): ProQuest Historical Newspapers*
• Hansard 1803-2005
• HOLNET: The History of London
• Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003*
• International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance*
• London Lives 1690-1800: Crime, Poverty, and Social Policy in the Metropolis
• London Low Life: Street Culture, Social Reform, and the Victorian Underworld*
• Mass Observation Online*
• MLA International Bibliography*
• Moving Here (Migration to Britain)
• The National Archives
• The National Portrait Gallery
• The National Register of Archives
• Nines: Nineteenth-Century Scholarship Online
• 19th-Century Collections Online (Gale)*
• 19th-Century Digital Index
• 19th-Century Fiction (Chadwyck-Healey)*
• 19th-Century Masterfile*
• 19th-Century UK Periodicals*
• Northwestern University Library Subject Guides
• The Observer (1791-2003): ProQuest Historical Newspapers*
• The Office of Public Sector Information
• The Old Bailey Online: 1674-1913
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography*
• Parliamentary Papers Online
• Periodicals Archives Online*
• Periodicals Index Online*
• Royal Historical Society
• The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985*
• Victoria Research Web
• Victorian Database Online*
• The Victorian Web
• UK Census Online 1841-1901
• The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900*
• World Cat*

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Conferences

• The International Society for the Study of Narrative
• NACBS: North American Conference on British Studies
• NAVSA: North American Victorian Studies Association

Discussion Boards

H-Albion Discussion Network for British and Irish History

Institutes

• The Center for British Studies at UC-Berkeley
• The Institute of Historical Research, London

Libraries

• The Bodleian Library, Oxford
• The Bodleian Library: Online Manuscript Collection
• The British Library
• Cambridge University Library
• LSE Library Pamphlet Collection
• The National Art Library
• Northwestern University Library
• Science and Picture Library
• Wellcome Library
• The Women’s Library

Newspapers and Media

• BBC History
• BBC News
• British Library Newspaper Reading Room (Colindale, north London)
• British Pathé 1896-1976
• The Daily Telegraph
• The Economist
• Financial Times
• The Guardian
• The Independent
• London Review of Books
• The Times
• The Times Literary Supplement

Research Trips to the UK

Victoria Research Web

Chicago-Area Resources

Libraries and Research Centers

• Loyola University Library
• The Newberry Library
• The Newberry Library British History Seminar
• The Nicholson Center for British Studies (University of Chicago)
• The University of Chicago Library
• UIC University Library