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Offers concise, up-to-date biographies of the men and women who have shaped British history and culture. 59,003 biographies, 68 million words, 11,180 portraits.
Full-text Databases of Literary, Cultural, or Historic Texts
Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
Covers the history of Western trade, encompassing the coal, iron, and steel industries, the railway industry, the cotton industry, banking and finance, and the emergence of the modern corporation.
