British Isles Online Primary Resources: Biography

all years Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI) indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world. Results of searches in this resource are citations to one or more biographical reference works that have a write up on the person you seek. You then need to look up that biographical work in our online catalog. The link here takes you to Gale Directory Library. There is a box on the entry page to click on to enter the BGMI.

British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries includes the immediate experiences of approximately 500 women, as revealed in over 100,000 pages of diaries and letters. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. The collection now includes primary materials spanning more than 300 years. Each source has been carefully chosen using leading bibliographies. The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.