History -- Dictionaries
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- History -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1800
- History -- Dictionaries -- French
- Archaeology -- Dictionaries
- Biography -- Dictionaries
- Diplomacy -- Dictionaries
- History, Ancient -- Dictionaries
- Booksellers and bookselling -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century -- Dictionaries
- Booksellers and bookselling -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century -- Dictionaries
- Civilization -- History -- Dictionaries
- Great Britain -- History -- To 1066 -- Legends -- Dictionaries
- Intellectual life -- History -- Dictionaries
- Law -- Scandinavia -- History -- Dictionaries
- Printing -- Great Britain -- History -- Dictionaries
- Printing -- Ireland -- History -- Dictionaries
- United States -- History -- Dictionaries
- Historical dictionaries
- World history -- Dictionaries
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Dizionario delle Date, dei Fatti, Luoghi ed Uomini Storici: o, Repertorio Alfabetico di Cronologia Universale (6 volumes in Italian; Venice: G. Antonelli, 1842-1847), ed. by A. L. d' Harmonville (page images at HathiTrust)- Hand-Book of Chronology and History (Putnam's Home Cyclopedia v1, 6th edition; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1853), by George Palmer Putnam
- Harper's Book of Facts: A Classified Encyclopaedia of the History of the World (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1906), ed. by Charlton T. Lewis
- Harper's Book of Facts: A Classified History of the World, Embracing Science, Literature, and Art (New York: Harper and Bros., 1895), ed. by Joseph H Willsey and Charlton T. Lewis
- An Historical and Critical Dictionary, Selected and Abridged from the Great Work of Peter Bayle; With a Life of Bayle (4 volumes; London: Printed for Hunt and Clarke, 1826), by Pierre Bayle
- The Great Historical, Geographical, Genealogical and Poetical Dictionary: Being a Curious Miscellany of Sacred and Prophane History (second edition (corrected and enlarged to the year 1688), 2 volumes; London: Printed for H. Rhodes et al., 1701), ed. by Louis Moréri, Jean Le Clerc, and Jeremy Collier
- A Supplement to the Great Historical, Geographical, Genealogical and Poetical Dictionary: Being a Curious Miscellany of Sacred and Profane History (with a continuation from 1688 to 1705; London: Printed for H. Rhodes et al., 1705), ed. by Louis Moréri, Jean Le Clerc, and Jeremy Collier (multiple formats at archive.org)
- An Universal, Historical, Geographical, Chronological and Poetical Dictionary (2 volumes; London: Printed for J. Hartley et al., 1703) (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Universal, Historical, Geographical, Chronological and Poetical Dictionary (2 volumes; London: Printed for J. Hartley et al., 1703) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Remarques Critiques sur le Dictionnaire de Bayle (2 volumes in 1, in French; Paris: H. Guerin; Dijon: Hermil-Andrea, 1748), by Philippe-Louis Joly (multiple formats at Google)
- Remarques Critiques sur le Dictionnaire de Bayle (2 volumes in 1, in French; Paris: H. Guerin; Dijon: Hermil-Andrea, 1748), by Philippe-Louis Joly (multiple formats at Google)
- The Concise Encyclopedia of Archaeology (New York: Hawthorn Books, c1960), ed. by Leonard Cottrell (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dictionary of World Biography (fifth edition, c2018), by Barry O. Jones (multiple formats at ANU E Press)
- Cyclopedia of Universal Biography: A Record of the Names of the Most Eminent Men of the World (Home Cyclopedia v4; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1855), by Parke Godwin (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Cyclopedia of Universal Biography: A Record of the Names of the Most Eminent Men of the World (Home Cyclopedia v4; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1856), by Parke Godwin
- Hand-Book of Universal Biography (Putnam's Home Cyclopedia v4; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1852), by Parke Godwin
- An Historical and Critical Dictionary, Selected and Abridged from the Great Work of Peter Bayle; With a Life of Bayle (4 volumes; London: Printed for Hunt and Clarke, 1826), by Pierre Bayle
- Men and Women of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries (15th edition; London: G. Routledge and sons, 1899), ed. by Victor Plarr (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines (4 volumes; London: John Murray, 1877-1887), ed. by William Smith and Henry Wace
- A Dictionary of Early Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies (based on the 1911 John Murray edition), ed. by Henry Wace and William C. Piercy (multiple formats at CCEL)
- Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics (13 volumes; Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark; New York: C Scribner's Sons, 1908-1926), ed. by James Hastings, John A. Selbie, and Louis H. Gray
- Volume I (A - Art): multiple formmats at archive.org
- Volume II (Arthur - Bunyan): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume III (Burial - Confessions): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IV (Confirmation - Drama): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume V (Dravidians - Fichte): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VI (Fiction - Hyksos): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VII (Hymns - Liberty): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VIII (Life and Death - Mulla): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IX (Mundas - Phrygians): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume X (Picts - Sacraments): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XI (Sacrifice - Sudra): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XII (Suffering - Zwingli): multiple formats at archive.org
- Index volume: multiple formats at archive.org
- Compilation of Abbreviations and Terms (1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
- Black Writers in New England: A Bibliography, With Biographical Notes, of Books by and About Afro-American Writers Associated with New England in the Collection of Afro-American Literature, Suffolk University, Museum of Afro-American History, Boston African American National Historic Site (Boston: National Park Service, 1985), by Edward Clark (PDF with commentary at Suffolk)
- Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising (Cleveland: G. M. Rewell, 1887), by William J. Simmons (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Who's Who of the Colored Race: A General Biographical Dictionary of Men and Women of African Descent ("volume 1" only volume published; 1915), ed. by Frank Lincoln Mather
- Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800 (online edition, 2008), by Neil Jeffares (PDF files with commentary at pastellists.com)
- Australian Dictionary of Biography (online edition) (HTML in Australia)
- A Dictionary of Medieval Romance And Romance Writers (London: G. Routledge and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1913), by Lewis Spence (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Biographie Nationale, by Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-arts de Belgique (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online (in English and French) (searchable HTML at biographi.ca)
- The Chinese Reader's Manual: A Handbook of Biographical, Historical, Mythological, and General Literary Reference (reprinted from the edition of 1874; London: Probsthain and Co.; Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1910), by William Frederick Mayers (page images at HathiTrust)
- Diccionario Geografico, Estadístico, Historico, de la Isla de Cuba (4 volumes in Spanish; 1863-1866), by Jacobo de la Pezuela (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dansk Biografisk Lexikon: Tillige Omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814 (19 volumes; Copenhagen: F. Hegel and son, 1887-1905), ed. by Carl Frederik Bricka (HTML and page images at Projekt Runeberg)
- The Dictionary of Falklands Biography, Including South Georgia (online edition), ed. by David Tatham (HTML at falklandsbiographies.org)
- Dictionary of Indian Biography (London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1906), by C. E. Buckland (multiple formats at archive.org)
- College of Hampden Sidney: Dictionary of Biography, 1776-1825 (Hampden Sydney, VA: Hampden Sidney College, ca. 1921), by Alfred J. Morrison
- Magyar Írók Névtára;: Életrajzi és Kónyvészeti Adatok gyüjteménye (in Hungarian; Pozsonyban: Nirschy Ferenc könyunyomdája Pozsonyban, 1876), ed. by Moenich Károly and Vutkovich Sándor (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dictionary of Indian Biography (London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1906), by C. E. Buckland (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa (electronic edition, c2009), ed. by David Hudson, Marvin Bergman, and Loren N. Horton (searchable HTML at Iowa)
- A Compendium of Irish Biography: Comprising Sketches of Distinguished Irishmen, Eminent Persons Connected With Ireland By Office or By Their Writings (Dublin: M. H. Gill, 1878), by Alfred Webb (HTML with commentary at libraryireland.com)
- Dictionary of Irish Biography (free online edition) (HTML at dib.ie)
- ABC of Diplomacy (Bern: Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, 2008), contrib. by Emmanuel Bichet (PDF in Switzerland)
- An Alphabetical Encyclopaedia of Institutions, Persons, Events, etc., of Ancient History and Geography (London: Swan Sonnenschein; New York: Macmillan, 1906), by Emil Reich (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers Who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667 (London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society, 1907), by Henry R. Plomer
- A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers Who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725 (Oxford: Printed for the Bibliographical Society, at Oxford U. Press, 1922), by Henry R. Plomer, ed. by Arundell James Kennedy Esdaile, contrib. by Harry Gidney Aldis, Ernest Reginald McClintock Dix, G. J. Gray, and R. B. McKerrow
- A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers Who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725 (Oxford: Printed for the Bibliographical Society, at Oxford U. Press, 1922), by Henry R. Plomer, ed. by Arundell James Kennedy Esdaile, contrib. by Harry Gidney Aldis, Ernest Reginald McClintock Dix, G. J. Gray, and R. B. McKerrow
- Dictionary of the History of Ideas (electronic edition; based on the 1974 print edition), ed. by Philip P. Wiener
- Arthurian Name Dictionary (c2000), by Christopher W. Bruce (HTML at Celtic Twilight)
- Dictionary of the History of Ideas (electronic edition; based on the 1974 print edition), ed. by Philip P. Wiener
- A Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Jeffrey Scott Love, Inger Larsson, Ulrika Djärv, Christine Peel, and Erik Simensen (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- A Dictionary of Printers and Booksellers in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of Foreign Printers of English Books, 1557-1640 (London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society, 1910), by R. B. McKerrow, Harry Gidney Aldis, Robert Bowes, E. R. McC. Dix, E. Gordon Duff, Strickland Gibson, G. J. Gray, Falconer Madan, and Henry R. Plomer
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