Politics

Collection overview

All areas of Politics are covered, especially:

Armed forces
British Politics
Constitutional Politics
Democracy
European Communities
Imperialism
International Relations
Liberalism
Local Government
Migration
Nationalism
Policing
Political philosophy
Public policy
Revolution
Terrorism
War

The geographical focus is on British and European politics

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Collection location

Most books are located on the 6th floor
All items available on open access will display the location POLITICS, with the classmark prefix 3 eg POLITICS 6th floor (3) RI Ros
Large books are shelved in a separate sequence - indicated by the prefix ‘f’ or ‘folio’, before the location code
Most periodicals are located on the periodicals open shelves (PS) on the 5th floor
Recent issues of periodicals are on display bays in the Periodicals Room – 4th floor. For more information on finding journals, see our journals resources page
Some items are held in the closed access stacks. These will display the location Stack Service. Please request at the Stack Service desk on the 4th floor
To locate individual titles use the online catalogue

Related collections

Area collections of Latin American Studies and United States Studies
British Government Publications collection
Economics collection - European Union
History collection
Law collection – some human and civil rights material
Special Collections – especially the John Burns collection, the Goldsmiths’ Library of Economic Literature, the Ron Heisler collection and the Porteus Library
Statistics collection
Dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference works in the Information Centre, 4th floor

Classmarks for Politics

All classmarks in this collection have a numerical prefix of 3 eg POLITICS 6th floor (3) RI Ros

Asylum – political	RIHY	Policing – Britain	RPTe
Democracy	RBO	Political ethics	RAE
Espionage	RMQN	Political Freedom	RAF
European Communities	RIK	Political parties – Britain	RYeH
Federalism	RBP	Political Philosophy	RAA
Imperialism	RAW	Propaganda	RWN
International Relations	RI	Public policy	RG
International Security	RIS	Republicanism	RBN
Liberalism	RAF	Terrorism	RAR
Local Government – Britain	Rte	Tyranny	RAO
Migration	RL	Utopias	RAU
Militarism	RIO	War	RMA
Nationalism	RAW	War – ‘just’ wars	RIJ

For a more detailed explanation of classmarks see the Library's leaflet 'A guide to the classification scheme'.

Other libraries

For more information about Politics holdings in other academic libraries in the London area, please consult the M25 Consortium of Higher Education Libraries website: www.m25lib.ac.uk. For elsewhere in the UK, consult the Consortium of University and Research Libraries catalogue: www.copac.ac.uk.