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The Lab
The Lab
The Lab
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.
Virtual Library
Arts and Music
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.
Listen in the library or at home. Sign in using your library card number.
Visit Naxos Music Library
Introductory video
Search tools video
Playlists video
BBC Music Memories
is a website designed to use music to help people reconnect with their most powerful memories. Select from different genres of music or different decades.
BBC Sound Effects Archive
The archive is available for personal, educational or research purposes. There are over 33,000 clips from across the world, including sound effects from TV and Radio programs, plus 15,000 recordings from the Natural History Unit archive. Listen, or design your own sounds.
BFI Replay (TV Archive)
BFI Replay (TV Archive)Provides access to thousands of digitized videos and television programmes from the BFI National Archive (and partner organizations) to browse and enjoy, research or study.
This resource is only available via library computers or self-service tablets.
Visit BFI Replay
Introduction and video
Topic based activities
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.
This resource is only available via library computers or self-service tablets.
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.
Dictionaries
Oxford Premium English Dictionary
a comprehensive dictionary and thesaurus of current English. Plus grammar resources
including New Hart's Rules and Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage.
Local & Family History
Ancestry
Ancestry
The largest family history site online with over 4 billion names in worldwide historical records.
This resource is only available via customer computers or self-service tablets in libraries, or at the Heritage Hub.
Ancestry
Ancestry Support Centre)
Ancestry videos
Findmypast
Findmypast
The family history database that includes birth, marriage and death records, census data, electoral registers and land tax documents.
This resource is only available via customer computers or self-service tablets in libraries, or at the Heritage Hub.
Findmypast website
Beginners guide to searching
1921 Census
How to search the 1921 Census
1939 Register
Tips on searching the 1939 Register
Searching the 1939 Register - video
Findmypast sitemap
Family History Magazines
The following are available via Pressreader:
Family tree
Genealogy Gazette
Who do you think you are
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.
Newspapers & Journals (current & historic)
BorrowBox
BorrowBox
A selection of BorrowBox ePress titles, including local newspapers, the I Newspaper, New Scientist and The Spectator.

Visit BorrowBox ePress
Getting started with the app (including video), and searching BorrowBox
British Newspaper Archive
British Newspaper Archive
Newspaper content dating from the 1700s.
Register with your email address and set a password. Sign in each time to access the full content for free.
This resource is only available via customer computers or self-service tablets in libraries, or at the Heritage Hub.
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Browse by title
Frequently asked questions
Searching the British Newspaper Archive - video
Using Findmypast and the British Newspaper Archive together
Gloucestershire Newspapers Collection
Gloucestershire Newspapers Collection
Gloucestershire Newspapers: Find out what papers we have and where we hold them - for the whole county!
Nature
Nature
Issues dating from 1860 to the present, made available via the Access to Research database.
This title is only available via a library computer, or self-service tablet.
Pressreader
Pressreader
Access to UK and International newspapers and magazines, including most national newspapers, some local newspaper titles, and popular magazine titles.
Visit Pressreader
Getting started (including video), and how to sign in with a library card
The Gazette
The 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.
Which?
Which?
Print copies of Which? magazine are available at the following libraries: Bishops Cleeve, Cirencester, Coleford, Dursley, Stroud & Tewkesbury.
Access to Which? Online is available at Cheltenham and Gloucester libraries, please ask staff to sign you in.
For the full Which Reviews, please contact the Ask Us service.
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Which Online
Reference & Research
Access to Research
Access to ResearchFree access to over 30 million academic articles from leading publishers, including science & environment, arts & culture, languages & literature, health & social care, business, history and much more.
This resource is only available via library computers or self-service computers.
Access to Research website
Searching guide
Introductory video
Inform Gloucestershire: Research & Intelligence
Inform Gloucestershire: Research & Intelligence
Inform Gloucestershire: Statistics, market research, maps, facts and figures relating to Gloucestershire...
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