FFHS-NEWS British Newspapers 1800-1900 Online

[News from the Federation of Family History Societies]

British Newspapers 1800-1900 Online

 

The following article is from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter and is
copyright by Richard W. Eastman. It is re-published here with the permission
of the author. Information about the newsletter is available at
http://www.eogn.com.

 

“British Newspapers is a joint effort between the British Library and Gale,
Cengage Learning to make available digitised versions of key
nineteenth-century British newspapers. The online collection presently
contains several million articles from forty-nine local and national
newspapers. This database offers online access to a key set of primary
sources for the study of nineteenth-century history.

 

“For the forty-nine titles selected, every front page, editorial, birth and
death notice, advertisement and classified ad that appeared within their
pages for the time period available is now accessible from what is a virtual
chronicle of history for this period. Users of the database are able to
search every word on every page. 

 

“The aim was to select a number of London and regional titles, covering as
much of the UK as possible. London titles include The Morning Chronicle, The
Illustrated Police News and a number of Chartism newspapers. Regional
newspapers include: The Northern Echo, Western Mail, The Newcastle Courant,
The Ipswich Journal, and The Bristol Mercury. In all, forty-nine titles from
the nineteenth century are included. Of those titles, The Penny Illustrated
Paper and The Graphic are made available as titles that can be viewed freely
without any subscription.

 

“To access the millions of articles in this database, you will need to first
register as a user and then purchase either:

 

·         A 24-hour pass for £6.99 that provides you access to 100 articles
over that period.

·         A 7-day pass for £9.99 that provides you access to 200 articles
over that period.

 

“You can view complete articles from the Penny Illustrated Paper and The
Graphic free of charge.”

 

You can find British Newspapers Online at: http://newspapers.bl.uk/blcs/ and
you can find a list of the 49 titles at
http://www.gale.cengage.com/tlist/Blcs_Titles.html.

 

Roger Lewry

FFHS Archives Liaison

exec.member.rl at ffhs.org.uk

5 May 2009

 

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