Combines personal writings from the Mass Observation Archive with oral history interviews from the British Library to explore everyday life in 1980s Britain. Covers themes such as politics, culture, gender, and memory, offering diverse perspectives across social classes and regions.
Orbis provides up to 10 years of comparable financial data for over 400 million public and private companies worldwide. Includes company profiles, key financials, peer groups, company size, corporate ownership, stock and earnings estimates, debt and credit swaps, information on directors, managers and advisors, and news and deals. Features include: Custom reports, data analysis tools, data export, search alerts.
Provides global intelligence on mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, private equity, and venture capital deals. Includes detailed data on deal histories, valuations, corporate structures, and market rumours, enabling in-depth analysis across industries and geographies.
Access to a collection of fiction and non-fiction audiobooks for leisure and wellbeing listening.
Offers expert-curated research guides combining annotated bibliographies with encyclopedic entries. This resource includes collections in Atlantic History, British and Irish Literature, Philosophy, Renaissance and Reformation, and Victorian Literature, directing users to key scholarship and essential readings.
Widely regarded as the authoritative dictionary of the English Language, the OED traces the development, meaning, and usage of words from their earliest records to the present. Based on over 2.5 million quotations from diverse English-language sources, it reflects the evolution of English across time, regions, and contexts.
A collection of over 1,000 handbooks offering critical overviews of key topics across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, and law. Includes peer-reviewed essays by leading scholars, with regularly updated content reflecting current research and debates.
A digital edition of Richard Taruskin’s landmark study of Western classical music, from its origins to the 20th century. Includes full text, images, and musical examples, with links to Grove Music Online—a key reference resource for music research. Covers centuries of musical invention and its interaction with culture, politics and art.
Fully searchable online access to Oxford's unabridged bilingual dictionaries in Chinese, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
Enables users to access and search multiple authoritative reference works, covering composers, genres, instruments, and musical forms, including Grove Music Online, the Encyclopedia of Popular Music, the Oxford Companion to Music and the Oxford Dictionary of Music
Provides access to over 2 million entries from Oxford University Press’s dictionaries, language and subject reference works. Covers 22 subject areas with content ranging from quick definitions to in-depth articles from encyclopedias and companions.
Access to over 1,750 annotated scholarly editions of written works from classical antiquity to the 20th century. Includes complete texts by authors such as Shakespeare, Donne, Austen, and Virgil, with a focus on material written between 1485 and 1660.
Access to the entire London run of the underground, subversive magazine.
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