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Who's Who & and Who Was Who

Over 35,000 autobiographical entries of noteworthy and influential people who impact British life.

Encyclopaedia Britannica
For adults 18
Encyclopaedia Britannica Library Edition
Library members can now access to The world's most famous and respected multi-volume encyclopedia.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Junior Library Edition
For ages 5 - 11

Encyclopaedia Britannica Student Library Edition
For ages 12 - 18

Oxford Reference Online
Contains an extensive list of reference material including Science, Computing, Art, Medicine and much more.

Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary Online.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
An illustrated collection of more than 50,000 biographies of people who have shaped Britain's past.

The John Johnson Collection
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.
World War One Collection
Official documents relating to WW1 from 1914 to 1918.
Access for free from your local library only.
This special online WW1 collection from The Stationery Office
includes 100 official documents relating to: War cabinet reports
Command papers including: Treatment of British Prisoners of War in Germany; Armistice with Germany. Conditions (1918)
The Gazette dispatches including those on: The Battle of Ypres; The Battle of Jutland; The Battle of the Somme