Building on Part I, this collection presents a greater variety of 19th-century British regional newspapers from places like Leicester and York, as well as conservative-minded newspapers, to contrast the more liberal views represented in Part I.
British Library Newspapers delivers a wide range of irreplaceable local and regional voices reflecting the social, political, and cultural events of the 18th through 20th centuries. Part II further expands the range of English regional newspapers and the political views represented in the program.
“I have always been suspicious of claims that electronic resources can transform your research life, but an exception has to be made for the online archive of British Library nineteenth-century newspapers. For the first time, it is possible to search a wide range of titles in the provincial and metropolitan press quickly and easily: work that would have taken painful weeks on a microfilm reader can now be done in an afternoon. Everything from biographical details to editorials about major events can be recovered, making this a tool useful for anyone interested in the national past.”
― Prof. James A. Secord, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
“[It] gives us an invaluable new perspective on the way Victorian Britain came to understand itself as a community of citizens, consumers and commentators. It is hard to imagine any researcher with nineteenth-century interests to whom it does not offer important insights on their subject: and it is dangerously addictive!”
