Subject Guides: Lifelong Learning: English Building History

Yorsearch, the Library search tool

All of the Library's books, journals, DVDs and other materials are listed on YorSearch.

Accessing your reading lists

Each of your modules will have an online reading list in the VLE where you can access all the recommended reading from your tutors. Click the 'Reading Lists' link in the left-hand menu in the VLE to get started. Happy reading!

Useful databases for English Building History

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
For alumni access please contact the University of York Alumni Association.

Due to COVID-19 the provider has made additional journal content available until 30th June 2023.
A digital archive collection of core scholarly journals starting with the first issues (many of which date from the 1800s). See JSTOR's online help guide for further information.

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Periodicals Archive Online This link opens in a new window
A major online archive that makes the backfiles of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the page image of a growing number of digitized periodicals that are already indexed in the Periodicals Contents Index (PCI).

The University has access to Collections 1, 2 and 8 plus a selection of 130 titles purchased by JISC drawn from other collections.

For help with this resource, take a look at our Quick Guide.

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AnthroSource This link opens in a new window
AnthroSource is a fully integrated information resource. Its powerful search engine makes precision research quick and easy.

AnthroSource is more than a content collection. It is an evolving, interactive repository of research and communications tools designed to bring the most credible and relevant of anthropological scholarship together in one place and to support a strong community of scholars, teachers, and students in the field.

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BIAB: the British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography This link opens in a new window
The biab online database contains datasets covering publications from AD 1695 to the present day on archaeology and the historic environment, historic buildings, maritime and industrial archaeology, environmental history, and the conservation of material culture - with a geographical focus on Britain and Ireland.

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British Humanities Index This link opens in a new window
- see entry for Humanities Index.

Archaeology Data Service
ArchSearch - national sites and monuments metadata
Archives - data-rich archaeological collections
ADS Library - journals, books and reports; incorporating BIAB.

Based in York, the Archaeology Data Service supports research, learning and teaching with freely available, high quality and dependable digital resources. It does this by preserving digital data in the long term, and by promoting and disseminating a broad range of data in archaeology. The ADS promotes good practice in the use of digital data in archaeology, it provides technical advice to the research community, and supports the deployment of digital technologies.

Digimap This link opens in a new window
You will need to register for an account the first time you access Digimap.
Maps and map data of Great Britain. The University subscribes to:

- Digimap Ordnance Survey Collection
- Historic Digimap
- Geology Digimap
- Marine Digimap
- Environment Digimap
- Aerial Digimap
- Lidar Digimap

For Digimap help and information see the Digimap Resource Centre.

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Early English Books Online (EEBO) This link opens in a new window
Contains over 100,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661).

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Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) This link opens in a new window
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is the most ambitious single digitisation project ever undertaken which offers wide access not only to a century of the nation's intellectual heritage, but also works from earlier periods which were valued and printed or reprinted during the eighteenth century.

A library of over 180,000 eighteenth-century printed books, with more than 33 million scanned facsimile pages. Each title has a full citation record from the English Short Title Catalogue and is fully searchable - including full-text and illustrations multi-disciplinary. A research resource for all disciplines.

For help with this resource, take a look at our Quick Guide.

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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography This link opens in a new window
An illustrated collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2000.

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Oxford Handbooks Online: Archaeology This link opens in a new window
Access to the full text of complete titles and chapters from titles not yet available in print. You will have access to all content published online up to and including the year 2022, plus selected individual titles.

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Oxford Handbooks Online: History This link opens in a new window
Access to the full text of complete titles and chapters from titles not yet available in print. You will have access to content published online up to and including the year 2022, plus selected individual titles.

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Google Scholar

Search for academic materials like journal articles, peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports.

When you use a campus-networked PC, Google Scholar will automatically link to the University of York library catalogue and display articles where we have full-text access. When off campus, you will need to select University of York - Full Text @ York in the Settings option (under Library Links).

Watch our Google Scholar video for more information.

Useful journals and websites for English Building History

Architectural History
Published by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain
Association for Studies in the Conservation of Historic Buildings Transactions
Full of useful case studies
Journal of the American Society of Architectural Historians
The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain
Society of Architectural Historians
Journal of the British Archaeological Association
British Archaeological Association conference transactions
Archaeological Journal
Vernacular Architecture
Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Group
Vernacular Building
Journal of the Scottish Vernacular Buildings Working Group
Buildings and Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum
Medieval Archaeology
Journal published by the Society for Medieval Archaeology
Industrial Archaeology Review
Journal published by the Association for Industrial Archaeology
Post-Medieval Archaeology
Journal published by the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology
International Journal of Historical Archaeology
Twentieth Century Architecture
Published by The Twentieth Century Society, which has also published a series of volumes, including Industrial Architecture, The Heroic Period of Conservation, Post-War Houses, The Twentieth-Century Church
Building
A key 19th and early 20th century journal, previously published as The Builder
Church and Heritage Building: the Journal of Ecclesiastical Architecture and Cherished Buildings
Articles on restoration and conservation, including recording
Cornerstone
Magazine published by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
Building Conservation Directory 2018
See also their extended bibliography
ICOMOS
A useful guide to a series of thematic publications
British Listed Buildings
Gatehouse
Gazetteer and bibliography of the medieval castles, fortifications and palaces of England, Wales, the Channel Isles and the Isle of Man
British History Online
Explore York Images
Includes images of lost buildings

Lifelong Learning

English Building History

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Yorsearch, the Library search tool

Accessing your reading lists

Useful databases for English Building History

Google Scholar

Useful journals and websites for English Building History