Study Abroad: UNITED KINGDOM
(England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales)
Undergraduate Library Resources
Books - Films - Music Recordings
BOOKS
Travel
- Fodor’s 2003 Scotland - Deborah Kaufman, editor - 914.1104 F683
- Frommer’s England - 914.204859 F927
- Imagined London: a tour of the world’s greatest fictional city - Anna Quindlen - 820.9 Q43i
- In the Steps of Jane Austen - Anne-Marie Edwards - 914.22 Ed95i2003
- Through Britain on Country Roads - Peter Brereton - 914.104857 B753T
- Travellers’ Trails- Scotland - David Ross - 914.1104 R733t
History & Culture
- Complete Idiot’s Guide to British Royalty - Richard Buskin - 942 B965c
- Conflict in Northern Ireland: an encyclopedia - Sydney Elliott, W.D. Flackes - 941.608204 EL58c
- Four Nations: a history of the United Kingdom - Frank Welsh - 941 W465f
- Meet the Beatles: a cultural history of the band that shook youth, gender, and the world - Steven D. Stark - 782.421660922 St282m
- Monty Python, Shakespeare and English Renaissance Drama - Darl Larsen - 822.33 DL329
- Stonehenge City: a reconstruction - Leon Stover - 936.231 St76s
- William Wallace: man and myth - Graeme Morton - 941.102092 W155m
Food & Cooking
- Spices, Salt and Aromatics in the English Kitchen - Elizabeth David - 641.638 D28s
Literature: Authors
- Classics: William Shakespeare, Jane Austin, Charles Dickens, The Bronte Sisters (Charlotte, Emily and Anne), Geoffrey Chaucer, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Robert Louis Stevenson
- Contemporary: Helen Fielding, Nick Hornby, Sophie Kinsley, J.K. Rowling, Margaret Atwood, Tracy Chevalier
- Mystery/Thriller: Agatha Christie, P.D. James, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ruth Rendell, Dick Francis, Ian Rankin
- Romance: Rosamunde Pilcher
- Science Fiction/Fantasy: Terry Pratchett, H.G. Wells
- Poetry: Dylan Thomas, Robert Burns, John Milton, William Blake, Lord Byron, John Keats, T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes
FILMS
- Ancient Britons - DVD 936.1 An22
- The Adventure of English, 500 AD to 2000AD - DVD 420.9 Ad96
- As Time Goes Bye - DVD 791.45617 As1
- Bend It Like Beckham - DVD 791.43617 B432
- Billy Elliot - DVD 791.43651 B497
- Cal - VIDREC 791.4372 C125w
- Discovering Wales - VIDREC 914.2904 D631
- Grounds for Peace - VIDREC 941.60824 G918
- How Green was My Valley? - DVD 791.4372 H83t
- London - VIDREC 914.2104 L8462
- Madness of King George - DVD 791.43651 M266
- Mysteries of Stonehenge - DVD 936.1 M999
- Ratcatcher - DVD 791.43653 R186
- A Sense of Loss - VIDREC 941.60824 SE592
- Shakespeare and the Globe - DVD 822.33 FSh1511988f
- Tracing the Arthurian Tradition - DVD 398.2 T67
MUSIC RECORDINGS
The items listed below are located in the Music Library.
2136 Music Building
1114 West Nevada Street
Urbana, IL 61801
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/mux/
- 20th Century British Music - CDISC M245 M36T8
- All in the April Evening - CDISC M1547 L38A44
- All the Best from Scotland, Vol. 2 and 3 - CDISC M1746 A457v.2 and CDISC M1746 A457v.3
- Celtic Tides - CDISC M1627 P88C458
- Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis - CDISC M1145 V28F27
- My Father’s the King of the Gypsies: music of English & Welsh travellers & gypsies - CDISC M1738 V653T6v.11
- Scotland - CDISC M1746 S367R6
- Songs of Scotland - CDISC M1746 M35S64
- Songs of Seduction - CDISC M1738 S664
Popular British Musicians: The Beatles, Black Sabbath, Bloc Party, Blur, Coldplay, Culture Club, Duran Duran, Franz Ferdinand, Keane, Led Zeppelin, Oasis, Queen, Pink Floyd, The Prodigy, Radiohead, The Rolling Stones, The Sex Pistols, The Spice Girls, Travis, The Who
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