5. Things to think about…
What period are you looking for?
What kinds of information might exist?
(examples: letters, newspapers,
government documents, photographs)
7. Some examples
British History Online
Primary source for: British History & Parliamentary
Papers
Connected Histories
A range of digital history sources covering 1500-1900
Britain
8. Task:
Work out what kind of
primary source might
exist and find some
examples
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10. 5 easy steps to find the book you want
1. Head to the Library website or search online for ‘RHUL
Library’
2. Look for the book using the author’s name and a word or two
from the title
3. Note whether the book is in the High Use or General
collection
4. Also note the call number of the book – this is the subject
number
5. Head to the shelves to pick up the book
18. Gartner, L.P., 2001. History of the Jews in modern times,
Oxford ; NewYork: Oxford University Press.
Cesarani, D., 2012.The war on terror that failed: British counter-
insurgency in Palestine 1945–1947 and the ‘FarranAffair’
Small Wars & Insurgencies, 23(4-5), pp.648–670.
Author
Author
Date
Date
ArticleTitle
JournalTitle
Publisher
BookTitle
Issue Page numbersVolume
Place of publication
Journal
article
Book
19. Examples from MHRA - books
Tom McArthur, Worlds of Reference: Lexicography, Learning and
Language from the ClayTablet to the Computer (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1986), p. 59.
Jean Starobinski, Montaigne in Motion, trans. by Arthur
Goldhammer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986), p.
174.
H. Munro Chadwick and N. Kershaw Chadwick, The Growth of
Literature, 3 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1932– 40; repr. 1986), i, p. xiii.
Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. by Joseph R. Strayer and others,
13 vols (NewYork: Scribner, 1982–89), vi (1985), 26.
20. Examples from MHRA - journals
Richard Hillyer, ‘In More than Name Only: Jonson’s “To Sir Horace
Vere”’, MLR, 85 (1990), 1-11.
Robert F. Cook, ‘Baudouin de Sebourc: un poème édifiant?’,
Olifant, 14 (1989), 115–35 (pp. 118–19).
Issue numbers are required only where each issue starts at page 1.
Richard Lee, ‘The Rebirth of Inherited Memories’, MHRAWorking
Papers in the Humanities, 4 (2009), 18-24
<http://www.mhra.org.uk/ojs/index.php/wph/article/viewFile/
73/70> [accessed 1 May 2012]
21. Examples from MHRA - others
Works of art:
Piero della Francesca, The Flagellation, c. 1455, oil and tempera on
panel, 59 × 82 cm, Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino.
Henry Moore, RecliningWoman: Elbow, 1981, bronze, Leeds Art
Gallery, Leeds.
Newspapers:
Michael Schmidt, ‘Tragedy ofThree Star-Crossed Lovers’, Daily
Telegraph, 1 February 1990, p. 14.
Jonathan Friedland, ‘Across the Divide’, Guardian, 15 January
2002, section G2, pp. 10–11.
22. MHRA Style Guide
The guide is available for free online at
http://www.mhra.org.uk/pdf/MHRA-
Style-Guide-3rd-Edn.pdf
23. RefWorks
Refworks is referencing software that may help
you. It is available to you for free as the Library
pays the subscription.
See this page on the subject guide for more
information:
http://libguides.rhul.ac.uk/c.php?g=380492&p=4
613271
24. Task:
Use the MHRA style guide
to check your references
OR
sign up for RefWorks
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26. You don’t have to rely on our Library
We have a College Archive which contains papers from
people connected with the College, and a number of
special collections
As a student at Royal Holloway, you have access to
Senate House Library, including remote access to some
online resources
27. Task:
Sign up for Senate House
Library and check out a
resource that’s relevant to
you
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Open Mentimeter & Prezi, get ready to go
Hello & welcome
Demo search page
Resources to show: Credo; Jstor; MLA, BoB
SPQR Beard is a good search
Go to padlet
Go to padlet
Explain concept of databases
Never too early to start
Academic information
At the right level for your studies
Properly referenced
Often accessible online
