History - King Edward VI College

Subject resources available for
If in doubt......
We can help!!
History
Inc. Classics
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Ask a librarian (we don’t bite)
Check the help sheets available in the
library entrance
Check the library catalogue from any
PC at: www.kedst.ac.uk/heritage
Check the library pages on
www.kedst.ac.uk/library for links to :E-resources
 Help sheets
 Study skills info
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specific subject area
shelf reference
Ancient History
Church History - inc.:- the reformation & counter-reformation.
Church in Britain—history
Classical literature - Roman
Classical literature - Greek
Communism
EU
European History
930
270 ff
280
873.5
883
320.53
320.92 / 327.41
940 ff
* Irish History
* British History
* German History
* French History
* Italian History
* Spanish History
* Russian History / USSR
* Scandinavian History
* Dutch History
Greek History - Ancient
Roman Britain
Roman History
Suffrage
Slavery / History of the working class
Trades Unionism in Britain
Warfare
Welfare State
Witchcraft
World History
941
942
943
944
945
946
947
948
949
938
936
937
324.6
305.5
331.88
355
361
133.43
909
Further information available on the library pages accessed via
the ‘Library ‘ button on the Student Portal
Access to the library catalogue: http://www.kedst.ac.uk/heritage/
Encyclopaedias and Reference items— available in the
Dudley Public Libraries
reference section—off the main library or on the Mezzanine
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The Cambridge dictionary of Classical Civilization 937 HOR
Chronicle of the 20th Century
909.82 MER
Dictionary of National Biography (Mezzanine)
920 STE
Encyclopaedia Britannica (underestimated and underused!)
Encyclopaedia of Political Biography
320.092 HUT
English Historical Documents
History of the 20th Century—WW1, WW2 & Cold War
ITV Visual History of the 20th Century
909.82 BUR
New Cambridge Modern History
(series- on mezzanine)
Oxford Companion to Classical Civilizations 937 HOR
Oxford Encyclopaedia of World History
909.03 OXF
The Domesday Book
333.3
The 20th Century vols. 1-18
032 TAY
Who's Who in British History
942.009 GAR
also ask at the desk for Politics folders with
 Party Manifestos for: 1987 / 1992 / 1997 / 2001 / 2005 and 2010
General Elections
 The Anglo-Irish Agreement 1998
are you a member?
If not.... Why not??
join free, online, by following the link from the
library pages to
Library Catalogues : Dudley Public Libraries
then, not only can you use their printed resources, you
can also use ‘online resources’ such as
 The Encyclopaedia Britannica information from a reliable and authoritative source.
 Text of 75,000+ articles & news headlines with
graphics & sound
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 Oxford Reference on-line to search such titles as: Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World
Journals - current issue on carousel (back issues in front of the
library desk or on the mezzanine)
 BBC History
 History Review
 20th Century History Review (replaced Modern History
Review)
 New Internationalist (mezzanine)
 New Perspective—(current on-line)
 The Blackcountryman (ask at library desk for back issues)
 History of the Second World War (mezzanine)
 The Historian (mezzanine)
 The Oxford Companion to British History
 The Oxford Companion to United States History
 The Oxford Companion to World Mythology
also .... help with your driving theory test
and
..100’s of audio-books to download—Free
DVDs—please ask at the library desk.. Loans are free and for 2 nights
Library Catalogue:
Use Chrome as your browser
access
 via : students; library; King Eds Library,
 from : any PC inside College or from home
 Also from the dedicated PC inside the library door
 on your mobile devices using the college wi-fi:
check library notice board for log-in details from Sept. 2014
 Click on ‘Enter Library’
 Select ‘Advanced’
 Use a * to truncate a word to search for different endings
at the same time
 Use quotations marks “”around a couple of words to
search as a phrase
 Click on ‘search’ and then the blue titles to view the details of the item inc. number of copies, loan details etc
 Put your college number in the ‘reader code’ box to see
your loan history (full details of all items you’ve borrowed )
For a list of all DVD titles please refer to the DVD booklet
Alexander the Great
 Ancient Greece:
 Gods and Goddesses
 Mystical Monuments
 Zeus :Judgement day at Marathon
 Hercules : Power of the Gods
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Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire DVD/937
Auschwitz: The Nazis & 'The Final Solution' DVD/943.086
Behind the Lines : Poets Owen & Sassoon DVD/943.086
Century of Warfare
DVD/940.3
Conquistadors Michael Wood
DVD/946
Conspiracy
DVD/943.086
Das Boot— film
 Days that shook the world; The Times
 Glories of the Ancient Aegean
 I Claudius (2002)
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In search of myths and heroes
In search of the Trojan War
In the footsteps of Alexander the Great
Kinder Transport
The Nazis: A Warning from History BBC
Nicholas Winton: Minac Matej
Rome: The Complete 1st & 2nd Seasons
DVD/937
Shoah
DVD/943.086
 The Third Reich in Colour DVD/943
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DVD/938.07
DVD/938
DVD/943.086
DVD/938
DVD/937
DVD/909
DVD/938
DVD/938.07
DVD/943.086
DVD/943.086
DVD/943.086
e-resources’ accessed via library ‘e-resources’ page
 InfoTrac - papers and journals on-line - inc. access to:
Also don’t forget to check out our
 20th Century History Review
 The English Historical Review (full text to June 004)
e-books.....
 History Review
 History Today
 Modern History Review
accessed via the library catalogue on
www.kedst.ac.uk/heritage
or
via the ’Student’ portal ; ‘library’ and ‘ebooks’
For articles such as
‘Ethnic Minorities in Nineteenth and
Twentieth Century Germany: Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Turks and Others.’
 JSTOR—digital library of academic journals, books, and
primary sources inc. articles such as: ‘The Significance of 1492 to the Jews and Muslims of
Spain’
 ‘The Ethnic German Minority of Slovakia and the Third
Reich, 1938-45’
Titles include:
 NewsFilm on-line—academic video and audio resource:
access over 3,000 hours of downloadable TV news and
cinema newsreels e.g.
 Human Rights
 International relations etc
Access to each resources is automatic from college.
To connect from home use the Shibboleth login option:
 Select King Edward Vl College Stourbridge then
 Use your normal computer log-in details
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Anti-Semitism—a very short introduction
Caesar—life of a colossus
Cicero by Anthony Everitt
Classical Mythology—a very short introduction
Germany and Its Gypsies : A Post-Auschwitz Ordeal
Gulag by Anne Applebaum