These contain full runs of 71 influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of the19th century British society.
Includes the Birmingham Daily Post from 1857 - 1900.
Trace your family history using records from England, Scotland and Wales censuses from 1841 to 1911, birth, marriage and death records and UK parish and probate record.
Please note that this site is only available on library computers.
COBRA includes information on start-up, legal, employment, marketing, exporting, finance, health and safety, plus exhibitions and events and many useful links in the Local Area Profile. Available on home and office computers.
An online library that gives you access to hundreds of reference books, including encyclopaedias, dictionaries and books of quotations, plus a range of specialist subject books.
Now includes almost 10,000 Topic Pages where you can find information from many different sources, all on one Topic, all on one screen.
Help with Life in the UK test and British citizenship tests.
Searches across many literary databases including 'Contemporary Authors' for more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline.
A collection of music available for online listening. It contains the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues, plus selections from other labels, amounting to more than 170,000 tracks altogether. It is mainly classical music but also includes jazz, world, folk and Chinese music.
A searchable database of the
Birmingham Post, the
Evening Mail, the
Sunday Mercury and the
Sports Argus from January 1998. ( To find articles in these papers, you may need to include the word 'Birmingham' in your search ).
Now also includes The Sun from Jan 1997, Daily Mail from Jan 1996, The Guardian/The Observer from Jan 1996 and The Times/The Sunday Times from Jan 1997.
50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2000. You can do a quick search, browse by date or in alphabetical order or look at the list of themes, e.g. saints, Oscar winners or poet laureates !
This is the authoritative guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources.
A comprehensive guide to classical music, includes the contents of The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online and The Oxford Companion to Music.
Brings together over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books.
A comprehensive source of information on music recordings distributed in the UK. Choose MusicMaster for popular and world music and jazz and Classical for classical music. I ncludes over 80,000 album cover scans and a DVD and VHS database.
Prepare for your Driving Theory Test with this online test site.
Please note - If you are experiencing difficulty accessing this site through Internet Explorer, please try a different web browser, for example Firefox or Google Chrome.
Search
The Times from 1785 - 1985 and see the results as individual articles and in context on the whole page.
Learn a language online. Over 80 languages available plus 16 courses to learn English from other languages.
Available in Central Library and in Mere Green Library while Sutton Coldfield is closed. You will need to ask staff to log you into the site. We also have access to the Which?Local part of the site, which recommends local businesses. This requires a different login, so please ask staff in the Internet Centre, Central Library and Mere Green Library for help with this.
