British Newspapers 1600-1900

  • Subject Business and Computing, Creative Arts, Education, Humanities, Law and Social Sciences, Outdoor and Forestry, Performance, Policing, Science and Engineering, Sport
  • On-campus access
  • Off-campus access
  • Brief description 17th & 18th Century Newspapers and news pamphlets
  • Resource type Newspapers
  • Walk-in access Walk-in access not available

Full Details

The most comprehensive digital historic newspaper archive. Includes Burney Collection and British Library Newspapers (19th Century).

Subject areas covered include anthropology, cultural studies, economics, history, journalism, media studies, medicine, politics, science, sociology and technology.

Date Range

1600-1900.

Size

3 million pages of historic newspapers, newsbooks and ephemera.  

Access

Direct on campus.
Off campus access is via your University of Cumbria login details - a pop-up box will ask you to enter you username and password. 

Features

Newspaper images can be magnified for easier reading or reduced for on screen navigation.
Save and print article images, create persistent links and email them to others.

Search Tips

Stop words such as a, and, in, of, on and to are not indexed.
A hyphen (-) used between two words is ignored.
Apostrophes should be used when searching contractions.
Ampersands may be used.
There are three wildcard operators *, ? and !
Boolean "and", "or" and "not" are used.