Library Subject Support – Page 12 – News, tips and features from the Library.

20th August 202127th May 2022

Resource in Focus: Bloomsbury Architecture Library

We’ve decided we like this platform so much we have created a short 4 minute video highlighting it’s key features, how to access and search.

On the platform you can choose to search or browse by theme or use interactive features such as the visual timeline and world map. The timeline puts the world’s key buildings and architectural history in perspective. It provides context for movements, themes and periods throughout 5,500 years of history.

Users can click on the images to discover more, with links through to the Building Pages and in-depth reading via reference articles and book chapters.

The resource contains Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture 21^st edition. This covers 5,500 years of architecture right up to the present day. From abacus to ziyada, the Sir Banister Fletcher Glossary contains over 900 key architectural terms, clearly explained and defined. The glossary covers a complete range of technical, design, and historical terms, including non-English language vocabulary, and serves both as a core reference resource and an invaluable primer to enhancing the reader’s understanding of global architectural history.

There are descriptions of major buildings together with 2,200 photographs, drawings and building plans.

The platforms also contains 42 eBooks.

We like this resource as there’s no Digital Rights Management, you can create your own log in to bookmark or save content and there are lots of options to search so easy if you’re looking for geographical information or from a specific date range or keyword or topic or person.

Access to Bloomsbury Architectural Library via our catalogue.

20th August 202127th May 2022

Resource in Focus: Architects Journal Buildings Database

The AJ Buildings Library is a digital database that showcases more than 1,900 exemplar projects, most from the last 20 years but including major projects back to 1900.

This is a core resource for the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape.

You can search for projects by age, cost, architect, building type, footprint, location, and a combination of these.

We like it as each project featured includes full project data (more than 20 items of information) and comprehensive architectural photographs and drawings (plans, elevation, section) – all provided at high resolution.

This 3 minute video covers:

How to set up an account on the AJ website so that you can access Buildings
How to access and log in
How to search

To access for free you will need to set up an account first.

Quick instructions (or watch the video above)

Access https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/ and click on the Log in/Register.
Then click on the Register New Account button, and you should see a form to complete your details and choose a password.

You should receive an email indicating you have registered.
Then access https://www.ajbuildingslibrary.co.uk
Click Sign in and use the details from the AJ to access AJ Buildings Library.

21st July 202121st July 2021

Books added to the Library by students in GPS (Semester Two 2020/21)

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Our Recommend a Book service for students allows you to tell us about the books you need for your studies. If we don’t have the books you need, simply complete the web form and we’ll see if we can buy them. For books we already have in stock, if they are out on loan please make a reservation/hold request using Library Search.

Further information about Recommend a book.

In Semester Two, academic year 2020/2021 we received 104 requests from students (53 PGR, 23 PGT and 28 UGT) in the GPS. This is what we bought :

Title	Resource type
A Companion to the Ancient Near East	Book – Electronic
Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation	Book – Electronic
After Genocide: Transitional Justice, Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Reconciliation in Rwanda and Beyond	Book – Physical
America & the World The Double Bind	Book – Electronic
America in Afghanistan: Foreign Policy and Decision Making From Bush to Obama to Trump	Book – Electronic
Atlas of the Aegean flora / 2 volume set	Book – Physical
Beyond Spaceship Earth: Environmental ethics and the solar system	Book – Physical
Bodies for sale : ethics and exploitation in the human body trade	Book – Electronic
British Football and Social Exclusion	Book – Electronic
Challenging Immigration Detention: Academics, Activists and Policy-Makers	Book – Electronic
China Watching Perspectives from Europe, Japan and the United States	Book – Electronic
China’s citizenship challenge Labour NGOs and the struggle for migrant workers’ rights	Book – Electronic
Class and Its Others	Book – Electronic
Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity	Book – Electronic
Contentious Cities Design and the Gendered Production of Space	Book – Electronic
Convincing Ground: Learning to Fall in Love with your Country	Book – Electronic
Cuba and Africa, 1959-1994	Book – Electronic
Cultural region : North East England 1945-2000	Book – Physical
Culture and the senses: Bodily ways of knowing in an African community	Book – Electronic
Democracy in the fifty states	Book – Physical
Developmental Politics in Transition: The Neoliberal Era and Beyond	Book – Electronic
Discursive Illusions in Public Discourse: Theory and Practice	Book – Electronic
Drone Warfare: War and Conflict in the Modern World	Book – Electronic
Economic Geography: A Critical Introduction	Book – Electronic
Embodied Practices Feminist Perspectives on the Body	Book – Physical
Energy and Society: A Critical Perspective	Book – Electronic
Ethical Research with Children Untold Narratives and Taboos	Book – Electronic
Ethnographies of Home and Mobility: Shifting Roofs	Book – Electronic
EU Development Policy in a Changing World: Challenges for the 21st Century	Book – Electronic
Family Practices in Migration	Book – Electronic
Feminist perspective on the body	Book – Electronic
Football in neo-liberal times. A Marxist perspective on the European football industry	Book – Electronic
From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America\’s World Role	Book – Electronic
Gaming Globally Production, Play, and Place	Book – Electronic
Geopolitics, Geography and Strategic History	Book – Electronic
Global Capital, Local Culture: Transnational Media Corporations in China	Book – Physical
Global Health Governance	Book – Electronic
Great Power Politics in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Geoeconomics of Technological Sovereignty	Book – Electronic
Handbook on Austerity, Populism and the Welfare State	Book – Physical
Handbook on the geographies of regions and territories	Book – Electronic
Handbook on Think Tanks in Public Policy	Book – Electronic
Human Rights Approaches to Environmental Protection	Book – Physical
Imagining the Peoples of Europe Populist discourses across the political spectrum	Book – Electronic
Inter/nationalism	Book – Electronic
Issue Salience in International Politics	Book – Electronic
Killing Animals	Book – Physical
Korea’s Online Gaming Empire	Book – Electronic
Lived experiences of ableism in academia: strategies for inclusion in higher education	Book – Electronic
Made in Hong Kong Studies in Popular Music	Book – Electronic
Making the Cut: How Cosmetic Surgery is Transforming Our Lives	Book – Electronic
Mapping Exile and Return: Palestinian Dispossession and a Political Theology for a Shared Future	Book – Electronic
Maritime Asia vs. Continental Asia: National Strategies in a Region of Change	Book – Electronic
Migration and the Search for Home Mapping Domestic Space in Migrants’ Everyday Lives	Book – Electronic
Military Strategy as Public Discourse: America’s War in Afghanistan	Book – Electronic
Moving the Goalposts : Football’s Exploitation	Book – Physical
Museveni’s Uganda: Paradoxes of Power in a Hybrid Regime	Book – Electronic
Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies: Transatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism	Book – Electronic
Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest over Ukraine and the Caucasus	Book – Electronic
New Directions in the Study of China’s Foreign Policy	Book – Physical
Nitrates in Groundwater	Book – Electronic
Nitrates in Groundwater	Book – Electronic
Ordinary Consumption	Book – Electronic
Outdoor Learning, Past and Present	Book – Electronic
Politics and the Media in Britain	Book – Electronic
Politics: Critical Essays in Human Geography	Book – Electronic
Racism and English Football: For Club and Country	Book – Electronic
Rain without thunder	Book – Electronic
Realism and social science	Book – Electronic
Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere	Book – Electronic
Researching Amongst Elites: Challenges and Opportunities in Studying Up	Book – Electronic
Responsibility Beyond Growth A Case for Responsible Stagnation	Book – Electronic
Routledge Handbook of NGOs and International Relations	Book – Electronic
Seeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race	Book – Electronic
Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home	Book – Electronic
Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters / 2nd	Book – Electronic
Sociology beyond societies : mobilities for the twenty-first century	Book – Electronic
Stakes and Kidneys: Why Markets in Human Body Parts are Morally Imperative	Book – Electronic
Structure and Agency in the Neoliberal University	Book – Electronic
The Animal Rights Debate: Abolition or Regulation?	Book – Electronic
The Bowhead Whale Balaena mysticetu: Biology and Human Interactions	Book – Electronic
The Corona Crash: How the Pandemic will Change Capitalism	Book – Electronic
The End of Stigma: Changes in the Social Experience of Long-Term Illness	Book – Electronic
The first Department : a history of the Department of Agriculture	Book – Physical
The Handbook of Diverse Economies	Book – Electronic
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine	Book – Electronic
The Middle Voice of Ecological Conscience A Chiasmic Reading of Responsibility in the Neighborhood of Levinas, Heidegger and Others	Book – Physical
The New Silk Road: China Meets Europe in the Baltic Sea Region: A Business Perspective	Book – Electronic
The Palgrave Handbook of Society, Culture and Outer Space	Book – Physical
The Power of Ideas: The Rising Influence of Thinkers and Think Tanks in China	Book – Electronic
The Provocation of Levinas: Rethinking the Other	Book – Electronic
The Rise of Think Tanks in China	Book – Electronic
The rural housing question: Community and planning in Britain’s countrysides	Book – Electronic
The SAGE Handbook of Transport Studies	Book – Electronic
The SAGE Handbook of Visual Research Methods /2nd	Book – Physical
The Trump, Bush, and Obama Doctrines: A Comparative Analysis	Book – Electronic
The World Food Programme in Global Politics	Book – Electronic
Theorizing Native Studies	Book – Electronic
Theorizing Native Studies	Book – Electronic
Thucydides on Choice and Decision Making Why War Is Not Inevitable	Book – Electronic
Transforming Industrial Policy for the Digital Age: Production, Territories and Structural Change	Book – Electronic
Why the garden club couldn’t save Youngstown: the transformation of the Rust Belt	Book – Electronic
Women Political Leaders and the Media	Book – Electronic
Women, Gender, and Politics	Book – Electronic
Young Dark Emu: A Truer History	Book – Electronic

21st July 202121st July 2021

Books added to the Library by students in ECLS (Semester Two 2020/21)

Further information about Recommend a book.

In Semester Two, academic year 2020/2021 we received 55 requests from students (40 PGR and 14 PGT) in the ECLS. This is what we bought :

Title	Resource type
A Critical Introduction to Phonology: Functional and Usage-Based Perspectives	Book – Electronic
An Introduction to Language and Society	Book – Electronic
Analysing Digital Interaction	Book – Electronic
Asian Values Encounter with Diversity	Book – Electronic
CALL Theory Applications for online TESOL	Book – Electronic
China’s Assimilationist Language Policy The Impact on Indigenous/Minority Literacy and Social Harmony	Book – Electronic
Classroom-based conversation analytic research	Book – Electronic
Collecting Qualitative Data: A Field Manual for Applied Research	Book – Physical
Conducting Research in Online and Blended Learning Environments	Book – Electronic
Confidence in Critical Thinking Developing Learners in Higher Education	Book – Electronic
Creativity in language teaching: perspectives from research and practice	Book – Electronic
Discourse in late modernity: rethinking critical discourse analysis	Book – Electronic
Evaluating Empowerment: Reviewing the Concept and Practice	Book – Physical
Handbook of Research on Teacher Education: Enduring Questions in Changing	Book – Electronic
Higher Education Transitions: Theory and Research	Book – Electronic
How Emotions Are Made in Talk	Book – Electronic
International English: A guide to the varieties of Standard English	Book – Electronic
International Perspectives on Leadership in Higher Education Critical Thinking for Global Challenges	Book – Electronic
Language and Intercultural Communication in the Workplace	Book – Physical
Language Development : Understanding Language Diversity in the Classroom	Book – Physical
Language Development Foundations, Processes, and Clinical Applications / 3rd	Book – Electronic
Language in Society: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics	Book – Electronic
Learning as Social Practice: Beyond Education as an Individual Enterprise	Book – Electronic
Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy	Book – Electronic
Material Girls Why Reality Matters for Feminism	Book – Physical
Multimodal Participation and Engagement: Social Interaction in the Classroom	Book – Electronic
Multimodal studies : exploring issues and domains	Book – Electronic
New Methods of Literacy Research	Book – Electronic
Online Communication in Language Learning and Teaching	Book – Electronic
Postmonolingual Critical Thinking Internationalising Higher Education Through Students’ Languages and Knowledge	Book – Electronic
Professors as Writers: A Self-Help Guide to Productive Writing	Book – Physical
Qualitative inquiry in TESOL	Book – Electronic
Questions and Epistemic Stance in Contemporary Spoken British English	Book – Electronic
Racée	Book – Physical
Reaching for the Sky: Empowering Girls Through Education	Book – Electronic
Research Methodology in Second-Language Acquisition	Book – Electronic
Research Methodology: A step-by-step guide for beginners / 5th	Book – Physical
Second language teacher education : a sociocultural perspective	Book – Electronic
Systematically Working With Multimodal Data: Research Methods in Multimodal Discourse Analysis	Book – Electronic
Teaching thinking: philosophy enquiry in the classroom / 4th	Book – Electronic
Teaching through peer interaction	Book – Electronic
Teaching Writing / 2nd	Book – Electronic
TESOL Teacher Education in a Transnational World Turning Challenges into Innovative Prospects	Book – Electronic
The Longings and limits of global citizenship education: the moral pedagogy of schooling in a cosmopolitan age.	Book – Electronic
The politics of fear: The Shameless Normalization of Far-Right Discourse	Book – Physical
The Routledge Handbook of Instructed Second Language Acquisition	Book – Electronic
The Routledge Handbook of Teaching English to Young Learners / Chapter: Classroom technology for young learners	Book – Electronic
The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Learning	Book – Electronic
Transcribing talk and interaction : issues in the representation of communication data	Book – Electronic
Using Story Telling as a Therapeutic Tool with Children	Book – Electronic
Verhüllung: Die Burka-Debatte in der Schweiz	Book – Electronic
Voices of the Mind: Sociocultural Approach to Mediated Action	Book – Electronic
Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition	Book – Electronic
Writing your dissertation in fifteen minutes a day : a guide to starting, revising, and finishing your doctoral thesis	Book – Physical

21st July 202121st July 2021

Books added to the Library by students in SAPL (Semester Two 2020/21)

Further information about Recommend a book.

In Semester Two, academic year 2020/2021 we received 83 requests from students (38 PGR, 23 PGT and 22 UGT) in SAPL. This is what we bought :

[Un]Grounding Post-Foundational Geographies	Book – Electronic
A history of children’s play and play environments: Toward a contemporary child saving movement	Book – Electronic
Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism	Book – Physical
Anti-Social Behaviour in Britain: Victorian and Contemporary Perspectives	Book – Electronic
Authoritarian Liberalism and the Transformation of Modern Europe	Book – Electronic
Capital in the Twenty-First Century	Book – Electronic
Design Science: Introduction to the Needs, Scope and Organization of Engineering Design Knowledge	Book – Physical
Difficult Heritage’ in Nation Building	Book – Electronic
Elite Mobilities	Book – Electronic
Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations	Book – Electronic
Gender, Sexuality, and Space Culture	Book – Electronic
Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World	Book – Physical
Ghost Road Beyond the Driverless Car	Book – Physical
Hello, Stranger	Book – Electronic
How To Talk To Robots: A Girls’ Guide To a Future Dominated by AI	Book – Physical
Hyperconnectivity and digital reality : towards the eutopia of being	Book – Electronic
Intergenerational Mobilities: Relationality, age and lifecourse	Book – Electronic
Livable Streets	Book – Electronic
Phenomenology of Values and Valuing	Book – Electronic
Prototyping Architecture	Book – Physical
Risk Governance Coping with Uncertainty in a Complex World	Book – Electronic
Ruin memories : materialities, aesthetics and the archaeology of the recent past	Book – Electronic
Shapers of Urban Form: Explorations in Morphological Agency	Book – Electronic
Skateboarding and the City:A Complete History	Book – Electronic
Space, Imagination and the Cosmos from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period	Book – Electronic
The Art of Experiment: Post-pandemic Knowledge Practices for 21st Century Architecture and Design	Book – Electronic
The Biopolitics of Water: Governance, Scarcity and Populations	Book – Electronic
The everyday experiences of reconstruction and regeneration: from vision to reality in Birmingham and Coventry	Book – Electronic
The Limits to Scarcity: Contesting the Politics of Allocation	Book – Electronic
The Right to Water: Politics, Governance and Social Struggles	Book – Electronic
Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams	Book – Electronic
Tropical Modernity: life and work of C.P. Wolff Schoemaker	Book – Physical
Under a White Sky The Nature of the Future	Book – Physical
Urban Futures Planning for City Foresight and City Visions	Book – Electronic
Water Ethics: A Values Approach to Solving the Water Crisis (second edition)	Book – Electronic
Water Politics: Governance, Justice and the Right to Water	Book – Electronic
What Is Water? The History of a Modern Abstraction	Book – Electronic
What Water Is Worth: Overlooked Non-Economic Value in Water Resources	Book – Electronic
After urban regeneration: communities, policy and place.	Book – Electronic
Architect’s Legal Pocket Book / 3rd	Book – Physical
Beyond successful and active ageing : a theory of model ageing	Book – Electronic
Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences	Book – Electronic
Building with Reclaimed Components and Materials: A Design Handbook for Reuse and Recycling	Book – Electronic
Designing and conducting mixed methods research / 3rd	Book – Physical
Designing for the homeless	Book – Physical
Designing with Smell: Practices, Techniques and Challenges	Book – Electronic
Enhancing Disaster Preparedness From Humanitarian Architecture to Community Resilience	Book – Electronic
Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight	Book – Electronic
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape	Book – Electronic
Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings	Book – Physical
Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason	Book – Electronic
Multiform: Architecture in an Age of Transition (Architectural Design)	Book – Physical
Naturalistic Planting Design The Essential Guide: How to Design High-Impact, Low-Input Gardens	Book – Physical
Rural Regeneration in the UK	Book – Electronic
Small Change: About the Art of Practice and the Limits of Planning in Cities	Book – Electronic
Structural Design for the Stage	Book – Electronic
The Craft and Art of Scenic Design: Strategies, Concepts, and Resources	Book – Physical
The Designer’s Atlas of Sustainability	Book – Electronic
The Ideal City: Exploring Urban Futures	Book – Physical
Ways of Looking: How to Experience Contemporary Art	Book – Physical
Broadlands and the New Rurality: An Ethnography	Book – Electronic
Architectural Design and Regulation	Book – Electronic
Architecture of Resistance: Cultivating Moments of Possibility within the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict (Design Research in Architecture) 1st Edition	Book – Electronic
Broken Cities: Inside the Global Housing Crisis	Book – Electronic
Concrete Changes: Architecture, Politics, and the Design of Boston City Hall	Book – Electronic
Digital Participation and Collaboration in Architectural Design	Book – Electronic
Eileen Gray: Her Work and Her World	Book – Electronic
Eleven exercises in the art of architectural drawing : slow-food for the architect’s imagination	Book – Electronic
England’s Co-operative Movement: An Architectural History	Book – Electronic
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Dana-Thomas House: The Illustrated Story of an Architectural Masterpiece	Book – Physical
Handbook of Global Urban Health Routledge	Book – Electronic
Heritage, Conservation and Communities: Engagement, participation and capacity building	Book – Electronic
History of Castleford	Book – Physical
Las Vegas in Singapore: Violence, Progress and the Crisis of Nationalist Modernity	Book – Electronic
Living in Digital Worlds: Designing the Digital Public Space	Book – Electronic
Mixed communities: Gentrification by stealth?	Book – Electronic
Rethinking Policy and Politics Reflections on Contemporary Debates in Policy Studies	Book – Electronic
The Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity	Book – Electronic
The Imperial Museums of Meiji Japan	Book – Physical
The Peregrine Faclon / 2nd	Book – Electronic
The Urban Commons: How Data and Technology Can Rebuild Our Communities	Book – Electronic
Think like an Architect	Book – Electronic
This building should have some sort of distinctive shape	Book – Physical

21st July 202121st July 2021

Books added to the Library by students in NUBS (Semester Two 2020/21)

Further information about Recommend a book.

In Semester Two, academic year 2020/2021 we received 16 requests (9 PGT and 7 UGT) from students in the Business School. This is what we bought :

All Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture	Book – Physical
Animals, Work, and the Promise of Interspecies Solidarity	Book – Electronic
Anthropocene Psychology Being Human in a More-Than-Human World	Book – Electronic
Citizenship and Sustainability in Organizations	Book – Electronic
Deep Adaptation: Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos	Book – Physical
Handbook of Research on Global Corporate Citizenship	Book – Electronic
Strategic Digital Transformation: A Results-Driven Approach	Book – Electronic
The Digital Transformation Playbook	Book – Electronic
Theory of Incomplete Markets / Volume 1	Book – Electronic
Crisis Strategy Management: competition and Change in Enterprise	Book – Electronic
Flash of genius: And other true stories of invention	Book – Physical
Handbook of qualitative research methods for international business	Book – Electronic
Influencer Marketing Building Brand Communities and Engagement	Book – Electronic
Innovation X: Why a Company’s Toughest Problems Are Its Greatest Advantage	Book – Electronic
Shaping the Corporate Landscape Towards Corporate Reform and Enterprise Diversity	Book – Electronic
Social Entrepreneurship: Managing the Creation of Social Value	Book – Electronic

5th July 20215th July 2021

BAR Digital Collection for archaeology now available

We’re pleased to announce that the Library has bought access to the new BAR Digital Collection, following a successful trial earlier this year.

This online collection, from one of the world’s largest academic archaeology publishers, gives full text access to over 3,100 titles published from 1974 to date. The collection includes both BAR’s British and international series, and covers archaeological research, excavation reports and other important series from around the world. Publications are mostly in English, as well as some in Italian, German, French and Spanish.

You can browse or search the entire collection in various ways (e.g. by location, author, subject, time period or series). Each report is also individually catalogued on Library Search (here is an example).

Get the latest news and features about this collection on Twitter.

5th July 20215th July 2021

New e-book collection: Oxford World’s Classics

We’re pleased to announce that the Library has bought the new Oxford World’s Classics e-book collection, following a well-received trial earlier this year.

This provides access to 301 novels and other works from the 18th and 19th centuries from around the world, including novels by writers such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Emile Zola and Fyodor Dostoevsky, as well as works such as Charles Darwin’s On The Origin of Species and John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty.

Each work is accompanied by extensive hyperlinked notes, introductions, bibliographies and commentaries. You can browse or search the entire collection in various ways (for example: by author, subject, keyword or time period). Every book in the collection is also individually catalogued on Library Search (here is an example).

When reading a book, you can highlight text and make and save annotations (you’ll need to create a Personal Profile first).

Get the latest news and features on this platform from Twitter or via the Oxford World’s Classics blog.

2nd July 202127th May 2022

Resource in Focus: The Listener Archive

The Library has access to The Listener Historical Archive for its entire run from 1929-1991.

The Listener was a weekly magazine established by the BBC in 1929 under its director-general, Lord Reith. It was initially developed as the medium for reproducing broadcast talks on the radio, but in later years, television as well, and was the intellectual counterpart to the BBC listings magazine, Radio Times. It is one of the few records and means of accessing the content of many early broadcasts, and also regularly reviewed new books.

The Listener developed a reputation for outstanding writing, with contributions from the major writers, artists, commentators and thinkers of the twentieth century, including E.M. Forster, George Orwell and Virginia Woolf. It’s an invaluable resource for those researching the critical reception of culture in the twentieth century, and the response of the public.

You can browse The Listener by date to find a specific issue, or search in various ways (choose Advanced Search to see all options, including searching by section of the magazine, author or date.)

Additional search features on the home page include Term Frequency, to trace how often a word, phrase or person has featured in The Listener over the years, and Topic Finder, to explore and visualise connections between topics.

As the Listener archive is published by the company Gale, you can cross-search it with any of the other Gale archives to which we have access, via Gale Primary Sources.

2nd July 202127th May 2022

Resource in Focus: Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992

The Library has access to the entire digitised archive of Punch from 1841-1992.

Punch was a famous satirical magazine which played a central role in the formation of British identity, and how the rest of the world saw Britain. This archive covers all volumes of Punch between 1841-1992, including special numbers, prefaces, epilogues, indexes, images and other specially produced material from the bound volumes. It’s an excellent resource for researching nineteenth and twentieth century political and social history, through provocative and entertaining satirical commentary.

To find out more about Punch, click Research Tools to read a selection of essays about different periods of its history.

You can browse Punch by date to find a specific issue, or search in various ways (choose Advanced Search to see all options, including searching by section of the magazine, illustration type or date.)

Additional search features on the home page include Term Frequency, to trace how often a word, phrase or person has featured in Punch over the years, and Topic Finder, to explore and visualise connections between topics.

As the Punch archive is published by the company Gale, you can cross-search it with any of the other Gale archives to which we have access, via Gale Primary Sources.