12 resources
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Ancestry
Alternative titles: also known as 'Ancestry Library Edition'
Description: Online family history resource, providing access to family history via documents that record the lineage of individuals from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, and other locations.
Onsite access onlyPublisher: Proquest
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Family History
Access: Access to this resource is restricted to our Edinburgh reading rooms and to Kelvin Hall, Glasgow.
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British Newspaper Archive
Description: More than 600 British newspapers, dating from 1710 to the present day.
This resource has a concurrent user limit of 5 - please try again later if you cannot get access.
Please complete personal registration and login to access full-text.
Findmypast provided offsite access while Covid-19 restrictions applied but this is no longer available - more information about library access (opens in new window)Coverage: 1710 onwards
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Newspapers, History, Family History
Access: Access to this resource is restricted to our Edinburgh reading rooms and to Kelvin Hall, Glasgow.
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Ebook Central
Alternative titles: previously known as 'EBL Ebook Library'
also known as 'ProQuest Ebook Central'Description: A full-text e-book database providing access to a small selection of e-book titles
Please login for onsite and remote accessFull text: Yes
Subjects: Science, E-books, History, Art & Design, Literature, Biography, Family History
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Parts 1 & 2
Alternative titles: also known as '18th Century Collections Online'
also known as 'ECCO'Description: Contains nearly 200,000 books published between 1701 and 1800. Covering all subject, his vast, searchable library includes books, pamphlets and broadsides from the UK, the Commonwealth and the Americas.
Coverage: 1701 to 1800
Publisher: Gale
Full text: Yes
Subjects: E-books, History, Art & Design, Literature, Biography, Family History
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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Findmypast
Description: Findmypast is a searchable online archive of over 2 billion records - birth, marriage and death records, parish records, censuses, migration records and military collections.
It includes records from Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India and the United States.
This resource has a concurrent user limit of 10 - please try again later if you cannot get access.Publisher: Findmypast
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Government & Official, Family History
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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Forces War Records
Description: A military genealogy specialist website containing over 670 million records, including indexes and images.
Library users have access until 30/11/2025Full text: Yes
Subjects: Family History
Access: Access to this resource is restricted to our Edinburgh reading rooms and to Kelvin Hall, Glasgow.
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Gale eBooks
Alternative titles: previously known as 'Gale Virtual Reference Library'
This resource includes: Complete dictionary of scientific biography
Description: A full-text e-book collection currently providing access to the 26 volume Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography.
Library users can access all titles in this resource until 20th July 2024Publisher: Gale
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Reference Works, Science, History, Biography, Family History
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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Humanities International Complete
Description: A full text and A&I database covering the humanities, with full-text from over 1,800 journal and book titles, plus data from the Humanities International Index containing over 2.9 million records from more than 2,300 journals
Publisher: EBSCO
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Social Sciences, History, Art & Design, Literature, Biography, Family History
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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India, Raj and Empire
Alternative titles: also known as 'Raj, India and Empire'
Description: A digital archive covering the history of South Asia between the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 and the independence to India and Pakistan in 1947. The archive is taken from the manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland.
Coverage: 1615 to 1947
Publisher: Adam Matthew Digital
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Social Sciences, Government & Official, History, Art & Design, Literature, Biography, Family History
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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SCRAN
Alternative titles: also known as 'Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network'
Description: Over 500,000 images, movies and sounds from museums, galleries, archives and the media about Scotland and beyond.
Coverage: Prehistory onwards
Publisher: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
Full text: Yes
Subjects: History, Family History
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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The East India Company: Corrupt Governance and Cruelty in India, 1806-1814
Alternative titles: previously known as 'Indian papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, 1806-1814'
previously known as 'India, business and control, 1806-1814: in the records of the Governor-General'This resource is part of: British Online Archives
Description: The personal letters of the 1st Earl of Minto and his wife Anna Maria.The 1st Earl of Minto served as Governor-General of India from 1806 until 1813. An employee of the East India Company, Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound rose from President of the Board of Control to run the colony. The diplomatic and Indian material is detailed, with a focus on his work.
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Government & Official, History, Biography, Family History
Access: Access to this resource is restricted to our Edinburgh reading rooms and to Kelvin Hall, Glasgow.
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Who’s Who & Who Was Who
Description: A reference work containing the current Who's Who - with over 34,000 autobiographical entries of noteworthy and influential people who impact British life - plus the entire Who Was Who archive from 1897 onwards.
Coverage: 1897 onwards
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Social Sciences, Reference Works, History, Biography, Family History
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.