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History Study Centre Paul Boag
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Five content types
  • Study Units bring together the most relevant
    content on over 500 important topics.
  • Find historical newspaper articles, official
    documents, speech transcripts and many more
    primary source texts using Historical Documents.
  • Maps Reference includes encyclopedias and
    historical dictionaries topic overviews and
    thousands of historical maps, including animated
    maps.
  • Multimedia searches thousands of historical
    images plus video clips and selected Web links.
  • Search and browse issues from 80 history journals.

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Study Units
  • Study Units bring together essential information
    and rare documents, and encourage further
    research.
  • Each Study Unit contains between 30-120 articles,
    documents and images selected for their relevance
    to the topic.
  • Study Units cover over 500 topics, from ancient
    Mesopotamia to contemporary America.

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Historical Documents
  • Primary sources are essential to historical study
    at all levels.
  • Thousands of texts from a wide range of sources.
  • Most documents include explanatory commentary.
  • Additional page-image documents are included in
    Study Units, some digitised for the first time.

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Also check Study Units for primary source
documents.
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Maps Reference
  • A library of over fifty respected reference
    volumes, including encyclopaedias, historical
    atlases and historiographical guides, plus 79
    topic overviews.
  • All volumes can be browsed through Tables of
    Contents.
  • Maps can be easily scrolled and zoomed, or
    downloaded in PDF format.

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Multimedia
  • Search an archive of thousands of historical
    images, from early woodcuts to modern news
    photography.
  • View hundreds of clips from the WPA Film Library,
    some dating back to the end of the nineteenth
    century.
  • Links to over 2,000 editorially assured history
    resources on the Web.
  • All images and video clips are given detailed
    captions which places them in historical context
    and aids searching.

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Journals
  • Search and browse thousands of full text articles
    from 80 journals.
  • Regularly updated with new issues.
  • Titles include History Today, English Historical
    Review and History Review.
  • Additional selected articles, including backfile
    articles, are included in appropriate Study Units.

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History Study Centre
  • Comprehensive
  • Coverage of all eras back to ancient times
  • Global coverage including Atlas of African
    History, Dictionary of Modern Arab History, c. 50
    Study Units on non-Western history

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History Study Centre
  • Reliable
  • Reference works from respected publishers such as
    Penguin, Taylor Francis
  • In-house historical expertise used for selection
    and captioning
  • Journals from scholarly publishers and quality
    commercial publishers

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History Study Centre
  • Selective
  • Only the most appropriate content is included
  • Expert editorial mediation, selecting material
    for Study Units, makes it easier to find relevant
    content on a topic

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History Study Centre
  • International Coverage
  • Comprehensive coverage makes HSC relevant to
    Asian, African, Australian history etc not just
    US/UK
  • Strong coverage of American history is also
    important around the world

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History Study Centre
  • Comprehensive
  • Reliable
  • Selective
  • An authoritative history resource which is as
    easy to use as Google
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