This collection consists of 280 newspaper and periodical titles (1672-1737) and approximately 300 monographs (1672-1682), complementing the Burney Collection.
The 19th Century British Library Newspapers collection contains full runs of 48 newspapers 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.
Australian Heritage Bibliography (AHB), formerly HERA, produced by the Australian Heritage Commission, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on Australia's natural and cultural environment.
The British Newspapers 1600-1950 collection includes the 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers and the 19th Century British Library Newspapers. Document supply available.
By Adam Matthew Digital. Covering the development of the East India Company starting with its charter in 1600 to Indian independence in 1947. This collection follows the story of trade with Asia, China, Japan and the Middle East; politics; and the rise and fall of the British Empire. It records the challenges of a globalising world and sheds light on many contrasting narratives – from records of powerful political figures, through to the lives of native populations and the individual traders who lived and worked at the edge of Empire. Material includes charters, deeds, statutes, factory records, letters, military documents, treaties, printed books, trading diaries and financial documents.
This collection from Adam Matthew Digital captures the lives, experiences and colonial encounters of people living at the edges of the Anglophone world from 1650-1920. It ranges across the various colonial frontiers of North America before touching on the settlers and indigenous peoples of Southern Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers offers full-page and article images in easily downloadable PDF format for newspapers dating back to the 18th century. Titles include The Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, The Guardian and The Observer, The Irish Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Scotsman, The Times of India, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The South China Morning Post and the Chinese Newspaper Collection. Document supply available.
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) contains House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to present session, with supplementary material back to 1688. Document supply available.
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This resource focuses on European emigration to the United States, Canada, and Australasia during the 19th and 20th centuries (1800-1980). This resource includes personal diaries, letters, travel journals and scrapbooks supplemented by original maps, watercolours, engravings, objects, emigration pamphlets, shipping papers and rare printed material. Convict shipping logs to Australia in the 1850s. Immigration to the US, Australasia and Canada and the movement of indentured Asian labourers. By Adam Matthew Digital.
The Illustrated London News Historical Archive is the full facsimile of the illustrated weekly newspaper. The newspapers covered British and world events, including politics, social history, fashion, theatre, media, literature, advertising and graphic design, as well as genealogy. Document supply available.
The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2000 is the fully searchable digital archive of what was once the world's largest-selling newspaper. Researchers and students can full-text search across 1 million pages of the newspaper's backfile from its first issue to the end of 2000, including issues of the Sunday Telegraph from 1961.
The Times Digital Archive is an online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of the Times, one of the most highly regarded resources for eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth century news coverage, with every page of every issue from 1785 to 2019.
Contains records covering Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands. Includes cemetery records, probate, land & court records, migration records, criminal reports, electoral rolls & censuses, directories, almanacs & government gazettes and military records. Document supply NOT available.
English and Welsh records containing census collections, indexes to BMD's, parish records, migration records and passenger lists, military records and much more. Also Scottish Census. Document supply NOT available.
Irish records containing vital records, census records, prison registers, Landed Estates Court records, Griffith's Valuation, military records, emigration records and much more.
Access Canberra maintains an historicdeathindex that provides limited information relating to deaths that were registered in the ACT more than 30 years ago.
It's arranged by date of death and includes surname, given names, date of death, registration number and sometimes the names of the parents.
