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British Library digitizes 19th century newspapers
Friday, September 25th, 2009By Paul Biba
This is from the press release. However, looking at the site it
seems as if full access is by subscription only and if you don’t want to subscribe you have to access the collection by going to a participating local library.
Gale, part of Cengage Learning, along with The British Library and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), have made nineteenth-century British newspapers available on the internet. The database, known as “British Newspapers, 1800-1900″ and available at http://newspapers.bl.uk/blcs/, gives users access to over two million newspaper pages from 49 different national and regional newspapers from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Chosen by leading experts and academics, the newspapers represent a cross-section of nineteenth-century society and contain illustrated materials on a variety of topics, including business, sports, politics and entertainment.
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