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Online resources
Free online information services from Wiltshire Libraries
The following online services are available free of charge to members of Wiltshire Libraries.
Many of these services require you to login with your library card number or your library card number and PIN. Enter your 10 digit card number without spaces.
If you're not a library member, you can find out how to join by visiting the Join the library page.
Full text articles can only be viewed in the library.
We provide free access to Ancestry Institution on the public computers in the library.
Ancestry have provided us with a link to the Wiltshire Parish records and wills on Ancestry (opens new window) so that Wiltshire records can be accessed from home. There are over 6.8 million names searchable within the collection, ranging from 1530-1916. In order to see the full search results, you will need to register for a free Ancestry guest account, providing an email address and password and accepting the terms and conditions of the website. The free at home access works for the Wiltshire collections only and, if you try to search another collection, you will reach a pay wall.
BFI Replay is a British Film Institute digital archive exclusively available on public computers in libraries. The archive covers six decades of video from the 1960s to the 2010s.
The British Newspaper Archive (opens new window) gives free access to millions of newspaper articles from the British Library newspaper collections. Register and view articles from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The John Johnson Collection (opens new window) is a collection of ephemera from the Bodleian Library that offers unique insights into everyday life in Britain in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries.
Download the Explore Wiltshire app from the Apple App Store (opens new window) and Google Play (opens new window) to discover the historical landmarks, cultural sites and significant events that have helped to shape Wiltshire's landscape. The app has initially launched featuring information and trails for Bradford on Avon, Chippenham, Cricklade, Devizes, Salisbury and Warminster, plus a link to the Explore Malmesbury webpage.
