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Historical Newspapers

17th and 18th Century Burney Collection                          
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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.
 

19th Century British Library Newspapers
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19th Century British Library Newspapers contains full runs of 48 influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of the 19th century British society. 

British Newspapers,
1600-1900
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The British Newspapers 1600-1900 is the most significant digital collection of British historic newspapers. New conservation and imaging techniques and a new cross-searchable platform adopted by the British Library offers unparalleled access and discoverability to this valuable historical and cultural archive.

The Times Digital Archive,
1785 - 1985
                    
Use from Library or Home
Researchers can search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London), using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.
 

Australian Newspapers Beta service, 1803 to 1954
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Historic Australian Newspapers, 1803 to 1954.
Do you want to find historical images, articles, cartoons or maps printed in Australian newspapers? Provide by the National Library of Australia, the Australian Newspapers Beta service makes available out-of-copyright digitised Australian newspapers. This enables the full-text searching of newspapers published in each state and territory from the 1800s to the mid-1950s.

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