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Date: 1932
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Date: 1940s
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Date: Early 20th century
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Family & personal

Arts

Oxford Art

Combines Grove Art with its 45,000 articles with the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopaedia of Aesthetics and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

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The John Johnson Collection

65,000 items of printed ephemera. Particularly strong on advertising and 19th Century entertainment materials, including tickets, programmes and playbills.

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Performing Arts Periodicals Database

Database covering a great many performing arts magazines/journals, many in full-text.

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Art & design
Music & performing arts

Art and design
Stage & screen

Biography

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Latest edition of the most authoritative collection of British biographies (over 50,000 entries).

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Who's Who and Who was Who

A directory of the noteworthy and influential, plus Who Was Who: 100,000 entries from the archives of Who's Who dating back to 1898.

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Biography

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Books

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Business

Cobra

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Kompass

Worldwide products and services directory, with detailed company information.

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Marketline Advantage

In-depth information on companies and markets from around the world.

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Business

Business & economics

Family history

Family History & Find My Past

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Languages

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Learning & careers

Go Citizen

Online study resource for candidates preparing for the Life in the UK test or British citizenship test.

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The British Way of Life

Easy to use, comprehensive program to help new arrivals understand the British way of life. Includes the different types of visa, finding a job, pre-school for children, further adult education, the communication network and more.

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Music

Oxford Music Online

combines Grove Music (Music & Musicians, Jazz, and Opera) with the Encyclopaedia of Popular Music, the Oxford Dictionary and Companion.

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Naxos Music Library

Naxos Music Library combines Grove Music (Music & Musicians, Jazz, and Opera) with the Encyclopaedia of Popular Music, the Oxford Dictionary and Companion.

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Music Periodicals Database

Indexing and abstracts for several great music journals and magazines, plus many full-text articles.

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Music & performing arts

Music

News & magazines

The Economist

The Economist - Fully searchable complete facsimile edition of the weekly paper covering politics, current affairs, business and trade, from 1843 - 2009.

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