After exploring these pages and the help available from the Library’s Research Support, please contact your Academic Librarians if you would like to book an appointment to discuss your research needs.
Your module may have a bespoke reading list where your lecturers include the books, articles and other sources they would like you to read for that module.
You can find your reading lists on each module page in MyBeckett.
This guide contains information on the key resources your Academic Librarians recommend for history.
In addition to these, there are thousands of other books, journals, research articles, and other sources that are available to you via the following links:
You can contact your Academic Librarians if you have any questions about finding relevant information, or if you want advice on developing your academic skills. Please email us or use our Get Help form.
Discover is your academic search engine, allowing you to quickly search for a broad range of material in your topic area. Some resources are not searchable on Discover however, so you may also want to search separately on:
There is a Finding Information page on Skills for Learning which tells you about different types of sources and how to search them. It explains what searching techniques there are so that you can find the most relevant information for your needs. It also has tips on saving results and how to evaluate your sources.
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.
As a historical dictionary, the OED is very different from Dictionaries of current English, in which the focus is on present-day meanings. You’ll still find present-day meanings in the OED, but you’ll also find the history of individual words, and of the language—traced through 3 million quotations, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
The OED started life more than 150 years ago. Today, the dictionary is in the process of its first major revision. Updates revise and extend the OED at regular intervals, each time subtly adjusting our image of the English language.
