Alternative Title: Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers; Parts I and II
Allowable Uses:
Access is available on and off campus to current McMaster University students, faculty and staff.
Description:
Coverage: 1800 to 1900
Coverage: 1800 to 1900
Searchable full text of full runs of newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth-century Britain. This primary sources collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as newspapers from: established country or university towns; the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands; and 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. Penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also included.
