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Cambridge Histories Online offers access to all 61 titles of the Cambridge Histories series.

Dictionary of world history

Cambridge historical dictionary of disease

Encyclopedia of rhetoric

International encyclopedia of revolution and protest : 1500 to the present

Oxford Companion to Military History

Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea

Oxford international encyclopedia of legal history

Chronological

Ancient

Encyclopedia of ancient history

Oxford encyclopedia of ancient Egypt

Classical

Brill's New Pauly : encyclopaedia of the ancient world : Antiquity

Oxford companion to classical civilization

Oxford Classical Dictionary, 4th Edition covers history, literature, myth, religion, linguistics, philosophy, law, science, art and archaeology, and topics including Near Eastern studies and late antiquity.

Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World

Oxford encyclopedia of ancient Greece and Rome

Medieval

All things medieval : an encyclopedia of the medieval world

Lexikon des Mittelalters (Choose EN on top bar for English)

Oxford dictionary of the Middle Ages

Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Culture

Grove encyclopedia of medieval art and architecture

Oxford dictionary of Byzantium

Oxford encyclopedia of medieval warfare and military technology

Early Modern

Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World

Brill's New Pauly : encyclopaedia of the ancient world : Classical tradition covers the post-classical life of the classical heritage and the history of classical studies up to the present.

Encyclopedia of early modern history online

Oxford dictionary of the Renaissance

Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation

Modern

Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment

20th Century

Dictionary of contemporary world history : from 1900 to the present day

Oxford Companion to World War II

Geographical

Britain/Ireland

Dictionary of British history

Oxford Companion to Black British History

Oxford Companion to Family and Local History

Oxford Companion to Irish History

Oxford Companion to Scottish History

Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age

Oxford Dictionary of Local and Family History

Australia

Oxford Companion to Australian History

Oxford Companion to Australian Military History

Canada

Oxford Companion to Canadian History

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