Abbreviations

• Acronym Finder

• Directory of acronyms and abbreviations

Biography

• Welsh Biography Online
• 100 Welsh Heroes
• BBC Historic Figures
• Biographical dictionary (American)
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - accessible if your library subscribes to ODNB. You will need your library card to login

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Dictionaries

English (for Welsh see separate section)

• Ask Oxford - Oxford University Press
• Bloomsbury Publishing company
• Cambridge dictionaries online
• Encarta dictionaries and thesaurus
• Dictionary of Slang
• Dictionary of Confusing Words

Thesauri

• Bloomsbury Publishing company
• Bartleby - Roget's Thesaurus
• Thesaurus.reference.com

Encyclopaedias

• Britannica
• Wikipedia
• World History Online (Canadian)
• Encyclopaedia Mythica - mythology, folklore, religion
• Medical Encyclopaedia
• British History Online

Maps

• Multimap
• Ordnance Survey
• Streetmap (Great Britain)
• Streetmap (World)

Patents

• Patent Office (UK)
• European Patent Office

Postcode Finder

• Royal Mail

Quotations

• Ask Oxford - Oxford University Press
• Bloomsbury Publishing company

 

Statistics

• Digest of Welsh Statistics
• Welsh Assembly Statistical Publications
• Office of National Statistics (UK)
• UK Social Trends

Telephone directories

• BT Phone book
• Thomson Directories
• Yell (Yellow Pages)

Welsh Language resources

• BBC Wales
• BBC Wales Dictionary
• BBC Wales Mutation Checker
• BBC Wales Spellchecker
• Cysill - online spelling and grammar checker
• University of Wales Lampeter Dictionary
• Welsh Assembly - Term Cymru
• Welsh Language Board
• Welsh Language Board - Database of terms
• Welsh Language Board - Linkline to Welsh
• Canolfan Bedwyr - Standardized Terminology, Guidelines and Online Dictionary