Introduction to database searching
If you are searching for a topic or subject rather than a specific article you might like to browse one of our databases. You can find them listed here: A-Z Databases. These often focus on a particular subject area or discipline, and reduce the amount of results you receive from irrelevant subjects.
Databases are collections of resources such as journal articles and conference papers, and also sometimes book chapters and reports. If you are doing a literature search or systematic review they are a key resource to use.
There are two main kinds of database:
- Bibliographic - they won't show you the full paper straight away, but you can often read an abstract and see the author details. You'll need to check with Get it @ King's if the Library has access to the journal article
- Full text - will let you open and read the article directly from the list of results
Grey Literature
Grey literature is material and research produced by organizations and individuals outside of traditional, usually peer-reviewed academic or commercial publishing. It can include government documents, NGO and think-tank reports, conference papers, PhD theses, white papers and much more.
Using grey literature can help lend currency to your work as it often highlights new and emerging research that has yet to undergo the lengthy process of peer review and publication. It can also add perspectives to your work from marginalised voices - those who do not have the opportunity to publish traditionally - or uncover research that has negative or null results (which is less likely to be published in traditional journals).
For SSPP subjects, some useful sources of grey literature can be found here:
- Policy Commons olicy Commons to discover and follow high-quality policy research from 210 countries and territories produced by world’s leading policy experts, charities, think tanks, IGOs and NGOs. Includes publications from inactive organisations that may not be available elsewhere.
- UK Parliamentary Papers UK parliamentary papers from the Westminster Parliament, Scottish Parliament, Northern Ireland Assembly, National Assembly for Wales and Scottish Government. Documents available on the day of publication.
- UNESCO The site includes includes material looking at international issues and developments in education worldwide.
- EThOS Please note this resource may be affected by the British Library Cyber Incident, you may need to use another theses resource until the system is available again. EThOS is a national thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses. It supports the UK Government’s open access principle that publications resulting from publicly-funded research should be made freely available for all researchers, providing opportunities for further research.
- Social Science Research Network (SSRN) The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) covers a broad range of research disciplines including and beyond the social sciences. It includes 'pre-print' archives and repositories containing early versions or drafts of papers and reports.
Newspapers
Below are a small selection of databases for getting started with finding Newspaper articles online. For a more complete list of related databases, visit the A-Z list of databases for Newspapers:
- Economist Historical Archive (Gale Primary Sources) This link opens in a new window
Founded in 1843, The Economist's principles and methods remain relevant today. It is renowned for its consistent approach to internationalism and championing of minimal state in political and government affairs. In more than 8,000 issues since its first publication in 1843, The Economist has presented timely reporting, concise commentary, and comprehensive analysis of global news every week. With objective authority, clarity, and wit, The Economist presents the worlds political, business, scientific, technological, and cultural developments and the connections between them. Full-color images, multiple search indexes, and the facility to browse each and every issue - all combine to offer a unique primary source covering the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
With a global circulation of more than 1.4 million, The Economist has consistently delivered a highly intelligent and comprehensive report of the week's events and has long been a leading magazine for business and political leaders, politicians, diplomats, bankers, journalists, and other influential people throughout the world. Its back issues are made accessible through The Economist Historical Archive and serve as key witnesses to the economic and political history of the last 170 years. They provide a unique, unbiased analysis of major world events, facilitate the comparison of economic trends across continents and centuries, and offer an ideal historical resource for cutting-edge ideas in an easily digestible form. - New York Times (1851–2014) This link opens in a new window
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
New to using online databases?
Complete interactive tutorials on literature searching in the Finding Academic Material for Arts & Humanities Topics module of KLaSS:
Getting the full text
If a database lists something you want to read, look for a button that says 'Get it at King's' 
This will take you to Library Search and to the full text, if the library subscribes to the journal, or prompting you to request the item via Inter Library Loan.
I can't see the 'Get it @ King's'
If the 'Get it @ King's' button is not available then you should use Library Search to see if the article or book is available through another database.
- Library Search @ King's
Find books and full text journal articles on your subject online!
New to using Library Search?
Find out how to use Library Search to find the books and items you need in the Getting Started With the Library - Undergraduates and Taught Postgraduates section of this guide - look for the navigation button in the top left corner!
Databases by subject
Below are a small selection of databases for getting started with International Development topics. For a more complete list of databases, visit the A-Z list of databases for International Development:
- Cambridge Journals Online This link opens in a new window Online access to selected titles from the Cambridge Journals Online service. It is possible to limit browsing and searching to titles for which King’s has full text access. King's coverage now includes also large part of the CUP journals archive. Please note that King's does not subscribe to all journals.
- JSTOR ebooks and journals This link opens in a new window JSTOR offers academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Via JSTOR books, King's currently has access to over 54,000 titles from over 42 publishers.King’s subscribes to the following collections within JSTOR: 19th Century British PamphletsArts & Sciences I-XV CollectionBusiness I CollectionBusiness II CollectionIreland CollectionJewish StudiesLanguage & Literature CollectionLife Sciences CollectionMusic CollectionPolitical ScienceFilm StudiesLanguage and LiteraturePhilosophyReligionSociologyBusiness and Economics
- Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window Wiley Online Library is a collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science and the humanities. King's coverage includes access to some of the subject collections of the Wiley journals backfile.If you experience problems logging in try this URL: https://go.openathens.net/redirector/kcl.ac.uk?url=https%3A%2F%2Fonlinelibrary.wiley.com%2FAlso, it may be helpful to use a Private/Incognito browser window.
New to using online databases?
Complete interactive tutorials on literature searching and earn badges in the Finding and Evaluating Information for Arts & Sciences section of KLaSS:
- KLaSS Module (KEATS)
Online tutorials and forums available 24/7; to help you find academic materials for your topics and choose your referencing style
Below are a small selection of databases for getting started with Education topics. For a more complete list of databases, visit the A-Z list of databases for Education:
- Social Policy and Practice - King's This link opens in a new window Social Policy and Practice represents an important source for applied social science policy-makers and practitioners working within human resources, public safety, social services, social administration, economic and social development, social work, social work education and care management. Coverage is broad and includes: Public & social policyPublic healthSocial careCommunity developmentMental and community healthHomelessnessHousingCrimeEqualitiesLaw and orderChildren and familiesOlder People The database comprises over 320,000 bibliographic records to reports, surveys and statistics.Note: For help with logging in see Login instructions for popular resources for more details.
- ERIC (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The database contains more than 1.3 million records and provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.
New to using online databases?
Complete interactive tutorials on literature searching and earn badges in the Finding and Evaluating Information for Arts & Sciences section of KLaSS:
- KLaSS Module (KEATS)Online tutorials and forums available 24/7; to help you find academic materials for your topics and choose your referencing style
Below are a small selection of databases for getting started with Geography topics. For a more complete list of databases, visit the A-Z list of databases for Geography:
- ProQuest Social Sciences collection This link opens in a new window A collection of ProQuest databases in the Social Sciences subject area for King's users. The content includes full-text newspapers, government documents, magazines, journals, video, ebooks, industry standard A&I databases and more. These collections cover such subjects as sociology, political science, anthropology, gender studies, religion, philosophy, criminology, library and information science, education and linguistics.Additional databases may be available via Senate House.
New to using online databases?
Complete interactive tutorials on literature searching and earn badges in the Finding and Evaluating Information for Arts & Sciences section of KLaSS:
- KLaSS Module (KEATS)Online tutorials and forums available 24/7; to help you find academic materials for your topics and choose your referencing style
Below are a small selection of databases for getting started with Global Health topics. For a more complete list of databases, visit the A-Z list of databases for Global Health:
- Global Health (Ovid) This link opens in a new window GLOBAL HEALTH brings together the resources of two internationally renowned databases - the Public Health and Tropical Medicine (PHTM) database, previously produced by the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases (BHTD), and the human health and diseases information extracted from CAB ABSTRACTS. Dating back to 1973, together they provide a unique resource which offers a substantially deeper subject coverage of information related to human health and communicable diseases than many other sources currently available.Global Health provides an alternative, complementary point of reference with a broad analysis of foreign language journals, books, research reports, patents and standards, dissertations, conference proceedings, annual reports, public health, developing country information, and other difficult to obtain material. Note: For help with logging in see Login instructions for popular resources for more details
- Social Policy and Practice - King's This link opens in a new window Social Policy and Practice represents an important source for applied social science policy-makers and practitioners working within human resources, public safety, social services, social administration, economic and social development, social work, social work education and care management. Coverage is broad and includes: Public & social policyPublic healthSocial careCommunity developmentMental and community healthHomelessnessHousingCrimeEqualitiesLaw and orderChildren and familiesOlder People The database comprises over 320,000 bibliographic records to reports, surveys and statistics.Note: For help with logging in see Login instructions for popular resources for more details.
New to using online databases?
Complete interactive tutorials on literature searching and earn badges in the Finding and Evaluating Information for Arts & Sciences and Health sections of KLaSS:
- KLaSS Module (KEATS)Online tutorials and forums available 24/7; to help you find academic materials for your topics and choose your referencing style
Below are a small selection of databases for getting started with Politics topics. For a more complete list of databases, visit the A-Z list of databases for Politics:
- Encyclopedia of Political Science (TEPS) (Sage) This link opens in a new window
The Encyclopedia of Political Science (TEPS) offers a comprehensive and in-depth exploration of the central ideas, ideologies, and frameworks underlying the study of politics, and highlights the intersections of politics with philosophy, cultural studies, sociology, religion, psychology, history, and economics. Prepared with the assistance of the American Political Science Association (APSA), the TEPS brings together a distinguished editorial board and more than 600 established and rising scholars to chronicle twenty-first-century trends and assess the core issues that have long concerned students of politics.
This unique reference reflects a wide range of concepts and frameworks, both Western and non-Western, and is national and international in scope. An authoritative survey of the state of politics and political science, this five-volume work contains more than 1,500 signed entries, including 500 core or interpretive essays, by contributors from nearly 40 countries.
- Hansard Online This link opens in a new window
Hansard is a substantially verbatim report of what is said in Parliament. Members’ words are recorded and then edited to remove repetitions and obvious mistakes, albeit without taking away from the meaning. Hansard also sets out details of Divisions and reports decisions taken during a sitting.
A “rolling” version of Hansard is published online in instalments during sitting days, with the printed record (daily part) of a day’s sitting becoming available the next morning, alongside an online version. Each House of Parliament has separate publications. Commons Hansard includes proceedings in the Commons Chamber and Westminster Hall, as well as written ministerial statements, petitions and ministerial corrections, while Lords Hansard details proceedings in the Lords Chamber and Grand Committee. Separate reports are produced of proceedings in Commons General and Public Bill Committees.
Hansard Online is a prototype of a new way to present content on the web. It is a joint project involving Hansard in the Commons and Lords and the Parliamentary Digital Service, with development led by Parliament’s Rapid Apps Team
New features on the site include a much-improved search function, the bringing together of all Hansard records into one easy interface, and the ability to link to particular contributions. The project team would welcome feedback on these or other features, which can be submitted through the feedback tool on the website.
As the Hansard Online project develops, we aim to bring together the “rolling” version of Hansard with reports of previous dates, and also to allow easy navigation between Hansard and the audio-visual record. In partnership with the data.parliament initiative, the project also seeks to streamline the publication process. - Historic Hansard (1803-2005) This link opens in a new window
This site has been produced from digitised editions of Commons and Lords Hansard, the Official Report of debates in Parliament. This was part of a project led by the Commons and Lords libraries. There is the Hansard text itself by volume, Lords sittings, Commons sittings and Westminster Hall sittings as well as Written Answers, Written Statements, Lords reports and Grand Committee reports. This site also includes extracted lists of People who are recorded as having spoken, Constituencies, Offices, Acts, Bills, and Divisions.
- ProQuest Social Sciences collection This link opens in a new window
A collection of ProQuest databases in the Social Sciences subject area for King's users. The content includes full-text newspapers, government documents, magazines, journals, video, ebooks, industry standard A&I databases and more. These collections cover such subjects as sociology, political science, anthropology, gender studies, religion, philosophy, criminology, library and information science, education and linguistics.
Additional databases may be available via Senate House.
New to using online databases?
Complete interactive tutorials on literature searching and earn badges in the Finding and Evaluating Information section of KLaSS:
Online tutorials and forums available 24/7; to help you find academic materials for your topics and choose your referencing style
Below are a small selection of databases for getting started with Modern Language topics.
- Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (ScienceDirect) This link opens in a new window The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics is the most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field, with around 3,000 articles, 1,500 figures and supplementary audio, video and text files. There are approximately 700 biographical entries and 200 language maps, and the online edition features extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases to make navigation flexible and easy.
- MLA International Bibliography and Periodicals Directory This link opens in a new window Covers folklore, languages, linguistics and literature. Provides citations for items from journals and series published worldwide from 1926 to date. Indexes books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies. Available via EBSCOhost. Senate House resources require registering for Senate House library membership. See also our library FAQ for more details.
- Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window Oxford Reference Online: The Core Collection brings together 100 well-known and trusted dictionaries, reference books and Encyclopedias, into a single cross-searchable web database. The Premium Collection offers all of these, plus added functionality and more detailed information from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series, plus the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. ORO provides integrated, consistent coverage of a broad range of subjects: everything from General Reference, Language and Quotations to Science and Medicine, and from Humanities and Social Sciences to Business and Professional.
New to using online databases?
Complete interactive tutorials on literature searching and earn badges in the Finding and Evaluating Information for Arts & Sciences section of KLaSS:
- KLaSS Module (KEATS)Online tutorials and forums available 24/7; to help you find academic materials for your topics and choose your referencing style
Below are a small selection of databases for getting started with War Studies topics. For a more complete list of databases, visit the A-Z list of databases for War Studies:
- Churchill Archive This link opens in a new window The Churchill Archive is a digital library of modern international history that includes over 800,000 pages of original documents. Spanning 1874-1965, sources include Churchill’s personal correspondence as well as his official exchanges with kings, presidents, politicians, and military leaders.To log in select: Login (top right) then Login via your institution (Shibboleth / Open Athens)
- Documents on British Policy Overseas This link opens in a new window Documents on British Policy Overseas offers researchers the opportunity to see beneath the surface of the major events of the twentieth century. Users can access contemporary accounts and follow the detailed exchanges that shaped British foreign policy from the origins of the First World War and beyond. It is based on three distinct print series which form a record of British peacetime diplomacy since the end of the nineteenth century: British Documents on the Origins of the War 1898-1914, Documents on British Foreign Policy 1918-1939 and Documents on British Policy Overseas.
- Praeger Security International Online (PSIO) This link opens in a new window Electronic online resource covering international security, including defence and foreign policy, strategy, regional security, military history, and terrorism. The extensive full‐text library is made up of more than 600 titles under the Praeger imprint, along with more than 1,000 primary source documents and short commissioned essays by experts and scholars in the field of contemporary security studies. For specific username and password details, go to our passwords page.
New to using online databases?
Complete interactive tutorials on literature searching and earn badges in the Finding and Evaluating Information for Arts & Sciences section of KLaSS:
- KLaSS Module (KEATS)Online tutorials and forums available 24/7; to help you find academic materials for your topics and choose your referencing style
Databases by Institute or region of the world
Below are a small selection of databases for getting started with African Leadership topics. For a more complete list of related databases, visit the A-Z list of databases for Global Affairs:
- African Economic OutlookComprehensive and comparable data and analysis of 54 African economies.
New to using online databases?
Complete interactive tutorials on literature searching in the Finding Academic Material for Arts & Humanities Topics module of KLaSS:
Below are a small selection of databases for getting started with Australian topics. For a more complete list of related databases, visit the A-Z list of databases for Global Affairs:
New to using online databases?
Complete interactive tutorials on literature searching and earn badges in the Finding and Evaluating Information section of KLaSS:
- KLaSS Module (KEATS)Online tutorials and forums available 24/7; to help you find academic materials for your topics and choose your referencing style
Below are a small selection of databases for getting started with Brazilian topics. For a more complete list of related databases, visit the A-Z list of databases for Global Affairs:
- Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) This link opens in a new window HAPI is your source for authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. HAPI Online contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews (through 2001), documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 500 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world. HAPI Online combines current information about Latin America with in-depth coverage spanning more than thirty years. Senate House resources require registering for Senate House library membership. See also our library FAQ for more details.
- PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas) This link opens in a new window PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas) is a comprehensive reference resource providing full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin. Offering key titles indexed in the Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI), a highly respected database produced by the Latin American Center of the University of California, Los Angeles, PRISMA features Senate House resources require registering for Senate House library membership. See also our library FAQ for more details.
New to using online databases?
Complete interactive tutorials on literature searching and earn badges in the Finding and Evaluating Information section of KLaSS:
- KLaSS Module (KEATS)Online tutorials and forums available 24/7; to help you find academic materials for your topics and choose your referencing style
Below are a small selection of databases for getting started with Chinese topics. For a more complete list of related databases, visit the A-Z list of databases for Global Affairs:
- China Academic Journals Database (CNKI) This link opens in a new window The CNKI China Academic Journals database is the largest full-text Chinese journals database in the world. Offered via the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) platform, CAJ covers all academic journals published in mainland China, with comprehensive access to an impressive range of content in all disciplines, including medicine & Public Health, information science and economics and management.
New to using online databases?
Complete interactive tutorials on literature searching and earn badges in the Finding and Evaluating Information section of KLaSS:
- KLaSS Module (KEATS)Online tutorials and forums available 24/7; to help you find academic materials for your topics and choose your referencing style
Below are a small selection of databases for getting started with Indian topics. For a more complete list of related databases, visit the A-Z list of databases for Global Affairs:
New to using online databases?
Complete interactive tutorials on literature searching and earn badges in the Finding and Evaluating Information section of KLaSS:
- KLaSS Module (KEATS)Online tutorials and forums available 24/7; to help you find academic materials for your topics and choose your referencing style
Below are a small selection of databases for getting started with London topics. For a more complete list of related databases, visit the A-Z list of databases for Global Affairs:
- London Guildhall LibraryGuildhall Library is a public reference collection covering all aspects of life in London, past and present, its trade, people and buildings.
New to using online databases?
Complete interactive tutorials on literature searching and earn badges in the Finding and Evaluating Information section of KLaSS:
- KLaSS Module (KEATS)Online tutorials and forums available 24/7; to help you find academic materials for your topics and choose your referencing style
Below are a small selection of databases for getting started with Middle Eastern topics. For a more complete list of related databases, visit the A-Z list of databases for Global Affairs:
- ABI/INFORM Global This link opens in a new window Search worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more.Senate House resources require registering for Senate House library membership. See also our library FAQ for more details.
New to using online databases?
Complete interactive tutorials on literature searching and earn badges in the Finding and Evaluating Information section of KLaSS:
- KLaSS Module (KEATS)Online tutorials and forums available 24/7; to help you find academic materials for your topics and choose your referencing style
Below are a small selection of databases for getting started with North American topics. For a more complete list of related databases, visit the A-Z list of databases for Global Affairs:
- America: History and Life This link opens in a new window Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Senate House resources require registering for Senate House library membership. See also our library FAQ for more details.
- European Views of the Americas 1493-1750 (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of native American peoples. A wide range of subject areas are covered; from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery.
- Slavery, abolition and social justice, 1490-2007 This link opens in a new window An essential resource for the study of slavery, the African American experience and world history spanning over five centuries.Designed for teaching and research, this resource brings together documents and collections from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world, covering an extensive time period from 1490. Topics covered include the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today. The resource offers in-depth case studies in America, the Caribbean, Brazil and Cuba along with important material examining European, Islamic and African involvement in the slave trade.Senate House resources require registering for Senate House library membership. See also our library FAQ for more details.
New to using online databases?
Complete interactive tutorials on literature searching and earn badges in the Finding and Evaluating Information section of KLaSS:
- KLaSS Module (KEATS)Online tutorials and forums available 24/7; to help you find academic materials for your topics and choose your referencing style
Below are a small selection of databases for getting started with Russian topics. For a more complete list of related databases, visit the A-Z list of databases for Global Affairs:
- Russian Science Citation Index This link opens in a new window Web of Science, in collaboration with the Scientific Electronic Library (eLibrary.RU), have created a database of the top-tier scholarly publications in Russia - the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI). Search RSCI directly on Web of Science to access the most significant Russian scientific research with easy and direct access to its premier journals. RSCI covers fields such as engineering, material science, and ecology and provides local language interface for simplified discovery. Content is provided in Russian and English and is updated monthly. Over 600 titles have been selected for indexing with backfiles available to 2005.Specific log-in instructions for Web of Science can be found here.
New to using online databases?
Complete interactive tutorials on literature searching and earn badges in the Finding and Evaluating Information section of KLaSS:
- KLaSS Module (KEATS)Online tutorials and forums available 24/7; to help you find academic materials for your topics and choose your referencing style
Key Classmarks by Institute or Region of the World
- D – General history
- DT – African history
- GN – Anthropology
- HB – Economic theory
- HC – Economic history and conditions
- HD – Industries, land use and labour
- HF – Commerce
- HM – Sociology
- HV – Social and public welfare. Criminology.
- JA – Political science
- JF – Political institutions and public administration
- JQ – Political institutions and public administration Africa
- JX – International law
- JZ – International relations
- UA – Armies and military organisation
Books on your subject can be found at:
- Franklin Wilkins Library
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- DU - the history of Australia, New Zealand and the South Seas
- JQ3995-6691 - political institutions and public administration of countries including Australia
- JV1-5399 - colonies and colonisation
- JV9100-9269 - emigration and immigration in Australia and New Zealand
- PR9600-9619.3 - Australian literature
Books on your subject can be found at:
- The Maughan LibraryClick for opening hours, details of the collections and maps to the Library
- F1201-3799 - Latin American history
- JL1200-2499 - Latin American politics
- PC5001-5498 - Portuguese language
- PQ9000-9326 - Portuguese literature
- PQ9500-9796 - Brazilian literature
Books on your subject can be found at:
- The Maughan LibraryClick for opening hours, details of the collections and maps to the Library
- DS 779 - History of China
- HC 430 - China and economic policy
- HF 1604 - China and its political economy
- JA 84 - China and political thought
Books on your subject can be found at:
- The Maughan LibraryClick for opening hours, details of the collections and maps to the Library
- DS1-937 – history of Asia
- DS401-486.8 – history of India (Bharat)
- DS430-432 – ethnography and sects
- JQ21-1852 – political institutions in Asia
- JQ200-620 – Indian politics
Books on your subject can be found at:
- The Maughan LibraryClick for opening hours, details of the collections and maps to the Library
- DA676-DA689 – History of London
Books on your subject can be found at:
- The Maughan LibraryClick for opening hours, details of the collections and maps to the Library
- D - History (general)
- DC - French History
- DE - History of Mediterranean region; Greco-Roman world
- DF - Greek History
- DG - Italian History
- DP - Spanish and Portuguese History
- DR - Eastern European History; Balkan peninsula and Turkey
- DS - History of Asia including the Middle East
- HC - Economic history including the European Union
- JN - Political institutions in Europe, including the European Union
- PA - includes Greek language materials
- PC - includes French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish language materials
- PJ - includes Arabic language materials.
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- E - the history of the Americas, especially the United States
- F - United States local history, the rest of North America and Latin America
- PS - American literature
Books on your subject can be found at:
- The Maughan LibraryClick for opening hours, details of the collections and maps to the Library
- DK1-949.5 - history of Russia, Soviet Union and former Soviet Republics
- JN6500-6598 - political institutions and public administration of the Soviet Union, Russia and former Soviet Republics.
- PG2900-3698 - Russian literature
Books on your subject can be found at:
- The Maughan LibraryClick for opening hours, details of the collections and maps to the Library