Recommended for: Bibliographic information RecordsAbstracts
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An extensive guide to published writing on British and Irish history, including the history of British and Irish relations with the rest of the world and British and Irish domestic history. Includes over 594,000 records, including books, articles in journals and articles within collective volumes. Updated three times a year.
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Indexing and abstracting service. Links out to full text where available.
Available until 15/11/2018
The Dazed Media Collection with Exact Editions offers institutions the very best in fashion journalism. Give us your feedback
In 1991, Jefferson Hack and Rankin launched Dazed & Confused as an alternative style and culture magazine. The title became a lightning rod for cultural provocation and the magazine became a movement, growing into the agenda-setting publishing powerhouse Dazed Media.
This collection includes fully-searchable access to the complete archives of these three trailblazing magazines. Dazed Media continues to define the times with the next generation of writers, stylists and designers, making this the perfect resource for students of Fashion and Modern Culture.
Recommended for: Film and documentaries
World cinema, documentaries and independent film. Playback of films works with Google Chrome, Edge and Mozilla Firefox browsers. Not compatible with IE browser.
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Also includes some instructional films and lessons.
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No option to download, streaming service only. BBC videos are not included in this resource.
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Recommended for: eBooks
Includes 40 internationally respected books as well as Gothic Studies, the official journal of the International Gothic Association. Published by Manchester University Press.
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Manchester Gothic is an unrivalled collection of gothic literature including 40 books and 1 journal written by leading names in the field and covering literature, film, television, theatre and visual arts, dating from the eighteenth century to the present day.
Available until 15/10/2018
Orlando provides entries on authors' lives and writing careers. Give us your feedback
material, timelines, sets of internal links, and bibliographies.
Interacting with these materials creates a dynamic inquiry from
any number of perspectives into centuries
of women's writing. Navigate according to your interests, drawing on our
uniquely structured materials:
Recommended for: Journal articles
French-language scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences
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Open access
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Persée is a digital library of 277 open access, mostly French-language scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences, established by the Ministry of National Education of France. The website launched in 2005 and is maintained by the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, French National Centre for Scientific Research, and University of Lyon.
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Two bespoke eBook packages in the subject areas of Sport and Linguistics
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Two bespoke eBook packages are available to Manchester Metropolitan in the disciplines of Sport and Linguistics.These authoritative guides to theory and method are fully searchable and contain overviews of both classic and current research. Content is available in HTML and PDF format.
Recommended for: Journal articles Primary sources Women’s interest magazines from the late 19th Century - 2005
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Backfiles of leading women’s interest magazines from the late 19th Century through to 2005. Useful for research in history, social history, economics & marketing, fashion, politics, gender studies and media & popular culture.
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Manchester Met users have access to Women's Magazine I. Articles are full text.
