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Community digital makerspaces, for all ages and abilities. Visit your local Lab to meet your friendly Lab Tech, and explore VR, 3D modelling and printing, digital design, micro-computing and more. Bring your curiosity, questions or project ideas, and see what The Lab can do for you.
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Learn My Way
Learn My Way
Free online courses for beginners, helping develop digital skills to make the most of the devices and the internet.
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Virtual Library
Encyclopedias
The John Johnson Collection
The John Johnson Collection
This collection provides access to thousands of items selected from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, offering unique insights into the changing nature of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Arts and Music
BFI Screenonline
BFI Screenonline
An online encyclopaedia of British film and television featuring hundreds of hours of film and television clips, supplemented by rich and authoritative contextual material by expert writers, thousands of stills, posters and press books and an education zone for schools.
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European Blues Association
European Blues Association
Incorporating the Archive of African American Music, The European Blues Association (EBA) promotes performances of African American Music in its many forms; provides participative educational activities for young people and adults; encourages research into African American Music and its cultural heritage, and in partnership with the University of Gloucestershire, facilitates study and discussion of issues related to the development of Black Music and its relationships with pop music and culture.
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Naxos Music Library
Naxos Music Library
Listen to over 608,000 tracks of Classical, Jazz, Blues, World and Chinese music and access biographies of composers, discographies, opera synopses and libretti, and educational resources for GCSE and A-Level.
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Dictionaries & Reference
Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Reference Online
Search across 175 dictionaries and reference books.
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Over 50,000 biographies of key people born or linked to Great Britain.
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Inform Gloucestershire: Research & Intelligence
Inform Gloucestershire: Research & Intelligence
Inform Gloucestershire: Statistics, market research, maps, facts and figures relating to Gloucestershire...
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Local & Family History
Ancestry.co.uk
Ancestry.co.uk
The largest family history site online with over 4 billion names in worldwide historical records.
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Find My Past genealogical database
Find My Past genealogical database
Findmypast.co.uk was the first website to make the complete birth, marriage and death records for England and Wales available online
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Further links to Local & Family History Resources available here
Newspapers & Journals
National and Local Newspapers
Read the latest newspapers online. Many titles available in an image format which can be read with the same layout and content as the print equivalents.
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Times Digital Archive
Times Digital Archive
Times Digital Archive: Search full text content 1785 - 2006.
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NewsBank
NewsBank
Access U.K., Ireland and International Newspapers. Full-text content of local and regional newspapers.
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Gloucestershire Newspapers Collection
Gloucestershire Newspapers Collection
Gloucestershire Newspapers: Find out what papers we have and where we hold them - for the whole county!
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London Gazette
London Gazette
Published By Authority. Official Newspaper of Record for the UK and a modern, efficient way to disseminate and record official, regulatory and legal information.
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