English Literature and Creative Writing

This is UCLan's English Literature and Creative Writing library page.

For more help and guidance please contact your Subject Librarian: Francesca Robinson

Books

Use Library Search to find books and eBooks

For module specific reading please refer to UCLan Reading lists

Ebook Central -our largest eBook collection
ACLS Humanities eBooks
JISC Historic Texts - digitised books from the late 15th to 19th century
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Project Gutenberg - a library of over 60,000 free eBooks - mainly older literary works
Routledge Handbooks Online
Other eBook collections

Journals and Articles

Subject Specific databases

Arts and Humanities Database
Humanities International Complete
JSTOR - arts and humanities database
MLA - Modern Languages Association
Project Muse - arts, humanities and media database
Social Science Abstracts

Multi Subject databases

Journal Archives

If you want to find out if we subscribe to a particular journal or magazine title, use the Journal Finder. If the library does not have access you may be able to request a copy from the Inter-library loan service.

Diffusion Journal - an UG research journal for humanities and social science students

Additional Resources

News

Nexis - contemporary UK and worldwide news

Newspaper archives

Artemis Primary Sources - archive articles from The Economist (1843-2011), The Times (1785-2011), The Daily Mail (1896-2004), Financial Times (1843-2011), The Picture Post (1938-57), Illustrated London News (1842-2003) and 19th Century Periodicals and British Library Newspapers.
The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2000)
The Telegraph(1855-2000)
The New York Times (1851-2010)

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