The acclaimed texts of the Cambridge Histories Series are now available online. This reference set traces its publication heritage to 1902 with the release of the Cambridge Modern History, closely followed by Cambridge Histories of English Literature, Medieval History, Ancient History and the British Empire.
Regional Histories (China, Japan, Africa, Latin America, Islam and Iran) were added and the collection grew further to include Cambridge Economic Histories, Political Thought, Literature and Philosophy.
Online encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Definitions and longer articles from over 100 dictionaries in all subject fields.
The online version of the Canadian Encyclopedia contains the complete text and multimedia of the original print work which was first published in 1985. This encyclopedia is a comprehensive and accurate source of information on Canadian topics and includes contributions from over 5000 scholars and specialists. Text is in both English and French.
Universalis is the encyclopedic reference for the French-speaking world. Dedicated to documentary research, general culture and teaching, it offers high quality answers in all disciplines and all major fields of knowledge through multiple media.
The site describes the lives of those whose deaths or whose last-known activities occurred in the years 1000 to 1930. Also included are entries on voyagers whose verifiable dates precede 1000 – Saint Brendan (Bréanainn), Eirikr Thorvaldsson (Eric the Red), and Herjólfsson Bjarni – and more than 400 biographies of individuals who died after 1930.
