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The British Library Newspapers deliver a wide range of irreplaceable local and regional voices that reflect the social, political, and cultural events of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. These newspapers emerged as a crucial channel of information in towns and major cities, providing a unique first-hand experience of history with over 160 newspaper titles and 5.5 million pages spanning from articles to advertisements.
This collection is an extensive digital archive of primary source material from the nineteenth century, including books, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, state papers, maps, and other ephemera. It covers the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States, Asia, and Africa.
The British Newspaper Archive is a partnership between the British Library and findmypast to digitise up to 40 million newspaper pages from the British Library's vast collection over the next 10 years.
Digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Included are the House of Commons Journal and House of Lords Journal
A rich collection of primary materials, the multivolume Archives of Empire provides a documentary history of nineteenth-century British imperialism from the Indian subcontinent to the Suez Canal to southernmost Africa.
While focusing on the expansion of the British Empire, The Scramble for Africa illuminates the intense nineteenth-century contest among European nations over Africa’s land, people, and resources.