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Cotton Town
Explore Blackburn with Darwen's history with photographs, maps, posters and newspaper articles.
Access To Research
Discover academic research on multiple topics including health, business and the sciences. Free access to millions of papers published in thousands of journals via a "click in and out" service, with one article printable per search.
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Ancestry
Research your family history online at all our libraries. Search from UK Birth, Marriage and Death records, UK Census data, War Records, Parish Registers and much more.
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The British Newspaper Archive
A treasure trove of scanned newspaper pages from UK and abroad dating from the 1700s to the 1950 and growing each day – search through hundreds of millions of articles in the library and save your results to access from home later.
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Find My Past
Find My Past is a UK-based, family history website that includes rare specialist records and millions of parish records dating back as far as 1538. Now includes access to the UK 1921 Census data.
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Life In Britain
Learn, practice and revise for the British Citizenship Test.
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The British Way of Life
Understand the British way of life. There are over 400 pages of knowledge with links to key websites.
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Theory Test Pro
Practise your driving Theory test online.
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Britannica
Research your subject at three levels: junior, student and adult.
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Which?
Access more than 8,000 impartial, in-depth, expert product reviews, to easily find the Best Buys and avoid the Don't Buys.