19th Century British Library Newspapers , managed by Gale Cengage, contains 70 UK & Irish national and local titles with over three million pages of searchable digitised content.
This full-text, fully searchable digital archive currently includes papers originating in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, carefully selected by an editorial board from the British Library and providing a broad yet detailed view of British life in the 19th century.
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The website is also available to all Further and Higher Education UK institutions free of charge, thanks to funding from JISC, as part of its £22 million digitisation programme. HE and FE institutions should visit the JISC website to learn more or apply for a licence. The current list of subscribing UK HE and FE institutions can be found in the list in the right-hand margin.
More about the newspaper titles digitised
You can download more information about the newspaper titles digitised (PDF in the right-hand column).
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Cruel Deeds and Dreadful Calamities
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Cruel Deeds and Dreadful Calamities is a history of the Victorian newspaper Illustrated Police News, often seen as the first tabloid.
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Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism
Edited by Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor