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The database contains digitized English newspapers and pamphlets (a total of 1,270 titles) from the 17th and 18th centuries from the collection of the scholar and clergyman Charles Burney (1757-1817). The content ranges from parliamentary publications to daily news from London, the British Empire, neighbouring countries and their royal houses or governments.

Journal Discipline(s) News & Current Affairs, History
Journal Language English
Journal Region International

The newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757 - 1817) represent the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media.The 700 or so bound volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets were published mostly in London, however there are also some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India.

Journal Discipline(s) History, News & Current Affairs, Education
Journal Language English
Journal Region International
Journal Website link.gale.com/apps/BBCN

A comprehensive digital edition of The Eighteenth Century microfilm set, which has aimed to include every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800.

Journal Discipline(s) Social Sciences, Language & Literature, History
Journal Language English, French
Journal Region Europe, United Kingdom
Journal Website link.gale.com/apps/ECCO

Sourced from the holdings of the British Library, the full-text database is comprised of more than 160 local and regional newspapers with approximately 5.5 million pages of historic content from the period 1732-1950.

Journal Discipline(s) News & Current Affairs, History
Journal Language English
Journal Region Europe, United Kingdom

Throughout the 19th century, pamphlets were an important means of public debate, covering the key political, social, technological, and environmental issues of their day. 19th Century British Pamphlets, created by Research Libraries UK (RLUK), contains the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in research libraries in the United Kingdom.

Journal Discipline(s) History, Social Sciences, Science
Journal Language English
Journal Region Europe, United Kingdom

A multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on primary source collections of the nineteenth century; comprised of numerous collections to be released over many years. Includes a variety of material types: monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more--in one cross-searchable location.

Journal Discipline(s) History, News & Current Affairs, Data & Statistics
Journal Language English
Journal Region International
Journal Website link.gale.com/apps/NCCO

19th Century Literature Criticism presents full-text literary criticism on the works of nineteenth-century writers of all genres, nations, and cultures. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, broadsheets, pamphlets, and scholarly papers.

Journal Discipline(s) Language & Literature, History
Journal Language English
Journal Region International
Journal Website link.gale.com/apps/LCO

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