The Berg Fashion Library is the only online resource to provide integrated text and images on world dress and fashion throughout history.

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Offers access to the vast content of the newly redesigned Grove Art Online and the complete Oxford art reference collection.

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The most authoritative music reference source.

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A music streaming service with access to a huge range of contemporary classical music, jazz, traditional and world music recordings.

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Provides hours of recordings across all musical genres. Search the whole collection or component parts: Jazz Music Library, Contemporary World Music, Classical Music Library, American Song and the Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries. Also features selected free downloads, record covers, liner notes, biographies, and related materials.

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Is a massive online archive of rock journalism, featuring over 17,000 articles on artists from Elvis to Eminem, the Rolling Stones to the Stone Roses, and Amy Winehouse to the White Stripes.

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One of the world's most authoritative reference works. Provides information on Art, History, Geography, Science and many other subjects, supplemented by links to magazine articles and websites. It's also a good source of related illustrations and video content.

Library members can access a choice of three age-specific sections: Junior, Student or Adult.

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For ages 5 - 11.

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For Ages 12 - 18.

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For adults 18 .

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All you need to know to run a small business. When prompted please enter MAN followed by your borrower number in the library card number login box.

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Provides access to the complete collection of Standards.

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Easybusiness allows you to search a database of more than 4 million companies worldwide.

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Offers instant, searchable access to all official UK Government publications including all legislation, parliamentary publications, including Hansard, and command and house papers.

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Provides access through libraries to information that supports Pre-Start, new and existing business, Jobseekers, Consumers, Inventors and Business students.

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An online study resource for candidates preparing for the Life in the UK Test (you will need an email address to sign up for this).

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Gives instant, searchable access to all official UK Government publications.

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Is an online simulation of the UK's driving theory test (you will need an email address to sign up for this).

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Browse the Manchester Evening News 1868-1917, Manchester Courier 1825-1916, Manchester Mercury 1752-1830 and Manchester Times 1828-1900 and many other Lancashire newspapers by registering with your own email address. Only available in Manchester City Council libraries.

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Delivers every page of The Times newspaper, as published, from 1785 to 1985.

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Full-text content of selected national, regional and international English language newspapers.

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Search The Guardian and The Observer (1791-2003).

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An illustrated collection of 50,000 specially written biographies.

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The definitive English language reference dictionary. When prompted please enter MAN followed by your borrower number in the library card number login box.

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Bilingual dictionaries in French, German, Spanish, and Italian.

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An unparalleled collection of reference books covers the entire subject spectrum from accountancy to zoology.

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Offers quick search access to definitions of words, phrases, and idioms, with expert guidance on style and usage, grammar, and spelling.

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A comprehensive resource for the study of the Bible and biblical history. A feature is the ability to view selected biblical text side-by-side with the user's choice of commentary and annotations.

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This dynamic resource brings together the best in current scholarship to provide for a more accurate and informed understanding of the Islamic world.

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An essential directory of the noteworthy and influential in all walks of life.

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National birth, marriage and death indexes for England and Wales 1841-1901.

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Is a rich series of records which give details about how Manchester ancestors lived, particularly in the Victorian period. It includes apprenticeship records, private cemetery records, industrial school records, prison registers, school admission registers and workhouse records.

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Is one of the UK's largest and longest established public film collections, and is part of the Library Service Special Collections at the Manchester Metropolitan University.

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Is a unique library on race, ethnicity and migration, including life stories, resources for schools and rare archival sources .

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A list of the registers of over 1500 churches and chapels available for viewing in Manchester Archives and Local Studies.

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A unique collection which tell the story of the Lancashire Cotton Industry.

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A collection of over 80,000 images of Manchester and its suburbs.

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Local history books, maps and family history indexes are available to buy

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All information on Archive resources is available on the
Archives & local history homepage.

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Is a catalogue listing over 4,000 archive collections held by local government archive services in Greater Manchester.

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Includes IGI (International Genealogical Index) of church registers.

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The burial registers of Manchester General Cemetery, Harpurhey; Southern Cemetery, Philips Park Cemetery, Gorton Cemetery, Blackley Cemetery and Blackley Crematorium are available on-line. Free access to this service is available in the Manchester Room at City Library. Please ask staff to log you on.

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Local indexes of births, marriages and deaths held by register offices in Lancashire.

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The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland is an ultimate reference work on family names of the UK, covering English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Cornish, and immigrant surnames. It includes every surname with more than 100 bearers, or more than 20 bearers in the 1881 census.
Each records includes the different spellings of the name, an explanation of its origins and how the meanings have changed throughout history, lists of early bearers showing evidence for how it formed and continued down to the 19th century, geographical distribution.

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