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History : Britain & Ireland: Books & eBooks

A research guide to primary and secondary sources for British and Irish history.

Selected eBooks

Irish Women and the Great War
Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales
The Militant Suffrage Movement : Citizenship and Resistance in Britain, 1860-1930
Unsettled: Refugee Camps and the Making of Multicultural Britain
Writing History for the King: Henry II and the Politics of Vernacular Historiography
Liberty over London Bridge: A History of the People of Southwark
The Politics of Hunger Protest, Poverty and Policy in England, c. 1750-c. 1840
Scotland: The Global History: 1603 to the Present
Black Students in Imperial Britain: The African Institute, Colwyn Bay, 1889-1911
Swansea Copper: A Global History
The Cult of Youth: Anti-Ageing in Modern Britain
Tudor England: A History
Belfast: The Story of a City and its People
Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London: Consumption and Domesticity After the Plague
History of Marriage Equality in Ireland: A Social Revolution Begins
Women against Cruelty Protection of Animals in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Spectacles and the Victorians : Measuring, Defining and Shaping Visual Capacity
The Maritime World of Early Modern Britain
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Browsing British History

The UW Libraries arranges books by Library of Congress call numbers. Though history is covered in every discipline (e.g., women's history may be located in the women's studies call numbers while the medical history may be in the medicine call numbers), the major sections for British history are listed below.

DA1-DA995 Britain Suz 4
DA20-DA690 England Suz 4
DA700-DA745 Wales Suz 4
DA750-DA890 Scotland Suz 4
DA900-DA995 Ireland Suz 4


For a more specific breakdown of the call numbers see the Library of Congress Classification Online.