History: Reference works

Chronology

C.G. Allen (gen. ed.), Rulers and governments of the world. Vol. 1: Earliest times to 1491. Vol. 2: 1492-1929. Vol. 3: 1930-1975. London: Bowker,1977-78. (Blue 1: REF 902.4,R1)

C.R. Cheney (ed.), A handbook of dates: for students of British history. 2nd ed. Revised by Michael Jones. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. (Blue 3: 902.4,C57)

Everyman's dictionary of dates. 7th ed. Revised by Audrey Butler. London: Dent, 1986. (Blue 1: REF 902.4,D17)

E.B. Fryde et al. (eds.), Handbook of British chronology. 3rd ed. London: Royal Historical Society, 1986. (Blue 1: Quick Ref 902.4,P46)

B. Grun, The timetables of history: a chronology of world events. London: Thames and Hudson, 1975. (Blue 3 Reference Collection: 902.4,S22)

H.E.L. Mellersh, Chronology of the ancient world, 10,000 BC to AD799. London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1976. (Blue 1: Quick Ref 902.4,M14)

R.L. Storey, Chronology of the medieval world, 800 to 1491. London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1973. (Blue 1: Quick Ref 902.4,S26)

P. Truhart, Regents of nations: systematic chronology of states and their political representatives in past and present: a biographical reference book. 3 pts in 4 vols. München: Saur, 1984-88. (Blue 1: Quick Ref 902.4,T21)

N. Williams, Chronology of the expanding world, 1492 to 1762. London: Barrie & Rockliff, the Cresset Press, 1969. (Blue 1: Quick Ref 902.4,W11)

N. Williams and P. Waller, Chronology of the modern world, 1763-1992. 2nd ed. Oxford: Helicon, 1994. (Blue 1: Quick Ref 902.4,W24)

Dictionaries and encyclopaedias

J. Belchem and R. Price (eds.), A dictionary of nineteenth-century world history. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994. (Blue 3 Reference Collection: 909,B47)

J. Black and R. Porter (eds.), A dictionary of eighteenth-century world history. Oxford: Blackwell,1994. (Blue 3 Reference Collection: 909,B46).
Also published as J. Black and R. Porter (eds.), The Penguin dictionary of eighteenth-century history. London: Penguin, 1996. (Blue 3 Reference Collection: 909,B54)

K. Boyd (ed.), Encyclopedia of historians and historical writing. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999. 2 vols. (Blue 3 Reference Collection: 908.1,B1)

J. Cannon et al. (eds.), The Blackwell dictionary of historians. Oxford: Blackwell Reference, 1988. (Blue 3 Reference Collection: 908.1,C20)

P. Childs and M. Storry (eds.), Encyclopedia of contemporary British culture. London: Routledge, 1999. (Blue 3 Reference Collection: 901.42,C14)

P. Teed, A dictionary of twentieth century history, 1914-1990. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. (Blue 3 Reference Collection: 903,T1)

D.W. Urwin, A dictionary of European history and politics, 1945-1995. London: Longman, 1996. (Blue 3 Reference Collection: 903,U1)
 

Yearbooks and annual surveys

Annual Register. Volumes from 2000 to date are available in the Humanities Journals sequence on Orange 3; volumes from 1911-1999 are available from Store; volumes from 1758 to 1910 are available in the Special Collections Division at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library.

Keesing's record of world events. The electronic version covers the period from 1960 to date. The printed version, which goes back as far as 1938, is available by request from Main Library Store (covering the period from 1938 to 2001).