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Help - Historical Documents
- How can I use the Historical Documents page
- How does the Historical Documents search work?
- How do I limit my search to particular resources?
- How can I get a more precise search result?
- How do I browse Historical Documents?
How can I use the Historical Documents page
You can use the Historical Documents page to search for historical documents using a variety of options; alternatively, you can use the Browse feature below the search form to navigate to the full text of historical documents using the table of contents of the relevant source books.
How does the Historical Documents search work?
The Historical Documents search form allows you to precisely search the historical document content in History Study Center.
To conduct a search, type your search terms (individual words or phrases) into the keyword search box. Optionally, you may narrow the search by Document title, or limit it to particular resources e.g. Chadwyck-Healey Historical Documents.
Any records containing the words you typed will be displayed on the Results page.
Note: In the search box, all terms are treated by default as if they were combined using the Boolean operator AND. Certain common words and symbols such as a, an, he, if etc. are excluded from searches; searches on words such as these are likely to take a long time and produce a large number of possibly irrelevant matches. These words are known as stopwords; you can view a complete list of stopwords here.
How do I limit my search to particular resources?
You may select one or more resources from the list on the Historical Documents search form; all resources are shown as selected by default. To de-select a resource click the relevant checkbox. To deselect all resources click the All Resources checkbox.
Note that if you de-select all resources, History Study Center will find no results for your search terms.
Note: Keyboard users can use their tab key to move from field to field, and spacebar to select & de-select categories.
How can I get a more precise search result?
The Historical Documents search form allows you to restrict or expand the search by using Boolean and proximity operators, expand the search to include related meanings and alternative spellings, or search for variations on search terms using truncation, and specify exact matching. Please see the Search Tips help page for more information on complex searching.
How do I browse Historical Documents?
You can use the Browse Historical Documents feature below the search form to navigate to the full text of historical documents using the table of contents for the relevant source books. Click the Browse link to view a list of publication titles on the Browse Historical Documents page.
Click a publication title on the Browse Historical Documents page to browse the table of contents for a particular sourcebook and view the full text. You can also find out more about a sourcebook by clicking the About link following each title.