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A digitised archive British regional and local newspapers, providing an alternative voice to national press and an alternative view on events and issues.
"In April 2004, the British Library (BL) received 2 million pounds from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)1 to digitise up to 2 million pages…"
Click to read Moira Goff's essay about the Burney Newspaper collection at the British library. Learn about the history and collections.
View samples from a selection of notable documents featured in the 17th and 18th Century Burney Newspapers Collection, part of Gale Primary Sources.
A collection of digital archives supporting comparative study of the Middle East and the Muslim world through Arabic primary source material.
Join renowned digital humanities scholars, presenting their research in a day devoted to best practices for global collaboration, teaching and challenges.
"Fryer’s inspiring saga against censorship is detailed in a short 160-page book published in London in 1966 by Secker & Warburg, Private Case – Public Scandal…"
"At the beginning of the nineteenth century, in 1800, Britain had been at war with France since 1793, and would remain so (with a small gap) until 1815…"
"It can be difficult to grasp the scale of newspaper publishing in the United Kingdom. Taken as a whole, the huge and diverse production of newspapers since 1700…"
With the abolition of the duty on paper in 1861, the state-led constraints upon the production and sale of newspapers were finally lifted. Equally important was the relative restraint of the government, which did not seek to use the existing libel laws as an instrument of censorship.
"During the early nineteenth century, advertising was already well-established in Britain—highly visible on its streets and in its press. While not all…"
A collection of digital archives containing over 18 million facsimile pages of searchable content, spanning over 400 years of world events.
The campaign to abolish the British slave trade was one of the most important public debates of the late eighteenth century. References to slavery are thus frequently found in newspapers of the period, and are particularly prominent in newspapers published at the height of the campaign in 1787-92.
"A reader of eighteenth-century literature might suppose that newspapers are merely a source of background information…It is also true that a different…"
"Though public opinion had already emerged as a powerful and unpredictable force by the end of the seventeenth century, it is arguable…"
A digitised archive containing the works of more than 1,000 authors, delivering insights into the culture and context surrounding them.
Fearless, flamboyant, and somewhat rackety, Ashmead-Bartlett came from a well-connected family. A colleague once described him as ‘a chap with an exceedingly nice nature but vilely brought up in the sort of wild selfish third rate society that surrounded his father’.