British and UK Studies

This meta catalog provides access to information about materials available in several UK national, academic and specialist libraries. "Library Hub Discover currently contains 45,517,434 records created from 122,194,715 records contributed by 162 institutions."

Search the Archives Hub to locate print and digital sources "held at over 350 institutions across the UK."

Use this catalogue to search the National Library of Wales' collections.

Use this catalogue to "access records held by The National Archives and more than 2,500 other archives."

"Use the All Catalogues search to find material across all the Library’s collections, whether online or at the Library."

"Search or browse over one million catalogue entries in PRONI’s archives for free."

Use iDiscover to search the University of Cambridge Libraries' collections.

"Library Search brings together, in a single search, details of the National Library of Scotland's printed, manuscript and archive, moving image and digital collections."

Search the main catalogue for "millions of records for books, journals, newspapers, printed maps, scores, electronic resources, sound archive items etc. in the Library's collections. Some content is legal deposit or subscribed and only available to Readers. Also included are thousands of records for open access items freely available online. Also included are thousands of records for “open access” items that are free online."

These provide access to the "Archives and Manuscript Collections catalogue, and several other online finding aids" of the library's manuscripts collections.

"This catalogue contains details of 6,000 films and videos held in the Library's Moving Image Archive. Films and film clips are available to watch online."

"Search for books, journals and other materials held by the SOAS Library."

Use SOLO to explore the University of Oxford Libraries' collections

"The British National Bibliography lists: books and journal titles published or distributed in the United Kingdom and Ireland since 1950, including electronic publications, and Cataloguing-in-Publication (CIP) information for forthcoming book titles."

"The CAIN (Conflict Archive on the INternet) Web site contains information and source material on 'the Troubles' and politics in Northern Ireland from 1968 to the present."

"Irish History Online is the national bibliography of Irish history. It is part of a European network of national historical bibliographies from fourteen countries. Irish History Online is an authoritative listing (in progress) of what has been written about Irish history from earliest times to the present."

This page provides access to other bibliographies available from the National Library of Wales.

This page provides access to "the various guides and bibliographies produced by Team Americas and other Library colleagues."

"Scottish Bibliographies Online is a database about Scots, Scotland, and Scottish writing. SBO contains references to Scottish content found in books, periodicals, and other media and is a unique resource, freely available to all. It can be a starting point for anyone looking for information on Scottish books and Scottish writers."

"This list contains a selection of general Welsh biographical works from the holdings of the Printed materials collection, and is not intended to be a comprehensive bibliography of Welsh biographical sources."