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This is the online version of the famous encyclopaedia. With a world atlas, timelines, comparative country data, international news feeds, and much more. There are sections for students and children.
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Credo Reference
Credo is a giant online reference library that provides you with access to a selection of 504 reference books. It includes encyclopaedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, not to mention a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law.
Ancestry online
Search for your ancestors on the library edition of Ancestry.com. All the UK censuses from 1841 to 1901, plus births, marriages and deaths. Available in Lewisham Libraries only.
The Times archive
Times Digital Archive 1785-1985 The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to make searching easier.
Search printed ephemera
John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera  This collection provides access to thousands of items selected from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, offering unique insights into the changing nature of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Categories include Nineteenth-Century Entertainment, the Booktrade, Popular Prints, Crimes, Murders and Executions, and Advertising. |
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Enquire instantly connects you to library staff trained to help you find answers to your questions. Best of all the service is free and anyone can use it at any time!
Issues
A comprehensive reference source addressing contemporary social issues. With sixty topics to choose from, Issues Online provides a wide range of information including: articles with news and views on each topic, key facts, key statistics, lobby group links, newspaper archives, reference sites, research guides plus assignment/debate suggestions. There are a variety of opinions available on each topic.
News UK
 An online service developed to provide national and regional news, combining the most popular British newspaper titles in one database. It contains 115 newspapers and magazines falling under three categories national newspapers, regional newspapers and magazines. NewsUK is easy to use and you can search across the 115 news titles for information on a person, a headline, a place, or get a broad range of views on a particular news story and find information on local and national events.http://search.proquest.com/news/?accountid=16448&groupid=92394 | ||||||||
ledged to be the most authoritative and comprehensive dictionary of English in the world. It also traces the evolution of more than 600,000 words over the last 1,500 years through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of sources: from classic literature and periodicals to film scripts and pop songs.
