tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4557554777044044762.post-58614397969239203572008-01-07T10:48:00.000-05:002008-01-07T11:02:30.379-05:002008-01-07T11:02:30.379-05:00Thanks in large part to an FIS grant awarded to Christopher Hagerman (History) and Lanya Lamouria (English), we have been able to purchase these two new databases:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><a href="http://0-infotrac.galegroup.com.library.albion.edu/itweb/albion_main?db=BNCN">19th Century British Library Newspapers</a></span><br /><br />The 19th Century British Library Newspapers collection contains full runs of 48 newspapers (title list: http://gale.cengage.com/tlist/bl_ncncp.html) specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain. This new collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection.<br /><br />Newspaper images can be magnified for easier reading or reduced for on screen navigation. You can save and print article images, create persistent links and email them to others. When trying to print entire newspaper pages, you will need to tile them to make them legible given the differing paper size between newsprint and common office paper sizes. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><a href="http://0-infotrac.galegroup.com.library.albion.edu/itweb/albion_main?db=NCUK">19th Century UK Periodicals - New Readerships: Women’s, Children’s, Humour, and Leisure/Sports</a><br /></span><br />"19th Century UK Periodicals is a database using content from the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, and other sources, to make available digitised versions of key 19th Century UK Periodicals. There are five series and each series comprises 1.2 million pages. By making this collection of 19th Century periodicals available and turning it into a high-resolution digital format with searchable images, this database presents online access to a key set of primary sources for the study of 19th century history. For the 96 periodicals selected, every front page, editorial, article, poem, recipe, advertisement and classified ad that appeared within their pages for the time period available will be easily accessible from what is a virtual chronicle of history for this period. Users of the database will be able to search every word on every page."MVHnoreply@blogger.com