Welcome to the subject guide for British History! It is intended as an introduction to the resources the Library contains to help you with your research in this area. For information about Library resources for the history of other countries and areas please see: the World History Guide; Canadian History Guide; Chinese History Guide; Japanese History; Medieval History Guide
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Can't find the book at Kwantlen? You can submit an Interlibrary Loan request: we will borrow the book from another university.
What's New? Check out our New History Books list!
Call numbers are like a book's address on the shelf - they help you locate items in the library. You will always find books shelved together by subject so understanding call numbers can help you find many resources on the shelves. Your Kwantlen library - like most academic libraries worldwide - uses an alpha-numeric (letter and number) system to arrange books on the shelf.
DA: British History DA 774.5 S27 2011
Locating a book is a progressive process: for example, to find a book with the call number DA 774.5 S27 2011 follow these steps.
DA → first find the call numbers starting with D: following that will be DA, DB, DC etc
774.5 → now start looking for the number, starting with 1 and working your way up to 256
S → now start looking for the next letter, starting with A, B, C, etc.
27 → now start looking for the next number, starting with 1 and working your way up to 4,613
2011 → the year the book was published
The Location: This will tell you which campus has the item, or if it is available full text online. Most items can be transferred to another campus through the "Place Hold" links.
Reference books and circulating books are shelved separately. In the Surrey library reference books are on the ground floor and circulating books are on the second floor.
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Please use Google Chrome when playing videos on campus. When using PCs in e-classrooms, videos should be accessible through Internet Explorer.
Please use Google Chrome when playing videos on campus. When using PCs in e-classrooms, videos should be accessible through Internet Explorer.