Car* will call up all data which has car at the start this means cars, carnival, carrying, carry… will all be returned in the search.

Car will return Car only

All terms

By ticking on the all terms box this will return results which have all of the key words in each record.

For example: If you wanted to search for London Park and you clicked on the all terms box you would have all records which contain London and Park together in the same record but not necessarily next to each other.

Exact phrase

An exact phrase search will return precisely what you have typed and in this order.

For example:  If you wanted to search for London Bridge and you clicked on the Exact phrase box you would have all records which contain London Bridge exactly, next to each other.

Any terms

Using the any terms search will return all records which have the key words together in the same record or in separate records.

For example: If you wished to search London Bridge this would call all records which have London and/or Bridge.

Title only

This will search for the key words in the title only.

Search for records with videos

By clicking on this option the search result will only return records which have films or clips online.

Synonyms

Synonyms are an easy way to search a number of words under one keyword. To do this simply type in the descriptive key word for example animal, transport or colour then click on the ‘use related words and synonyms’ box this will bring up all data which relates to those words.
Please note that this option is still being set up and many more terms are yet to be included.

Collections

This drop down menu will allow you to use all of the above criteria and also search within a specific collection/category.

For example: If you would like to search for London within the BTA collection then just type London in the keyword area and then select the BTA on the drop down menu.

Start and End Dates

The start and end date function allows you to search within a specific era if it was London in the 1950- 1960’s you would like the use the drop down arrow to select the from 1950 to 1969.

List View and Thumbnail View

The list view and thumbnail view allow you to change how you would like to view your results either in list form or thumbnails.

Results per page

By changing this option you can view more or less results on each page simply by changing this icon up or down.

Advanced search

This page has extra function’s which will allow you to be more specific with what you are looking for.

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