Week 2: Printed Sources
General
Marxists International Archive
Early Modern
17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
Early English Books Online (E-book platform)
Early European Books (E-book platform)
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (E-book platform)
Eighteenth Century Journals : a portal to newspapers and periodicals, c1685-1815
Warburg Institute Library Digital Collections
Modern Britain and Europe
British Non-Parliamentary Publications (Digitised Ford Collection)
British Parliamentary Publications (Digitised Ford Collection)
British Periodicals Collection I & II
19th Century British Newspapers
19th Century British Pamphlets Online
Daily Mail Historical Archive 1896-2004
Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003)
The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2014
The Independent Digital Archive 1986-2012
Times Digital Archive (1785-2012)
Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War
Wider World
African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
America's Historical Newspapers
Caribbean Newspapers, Series 1, 1718-1876
Church Missionary Society Periodicals: Modules I & II
Proquest Historical Newspapers: The Times of India (1838-2004)
National Library of Australia Historic Australian Newspapers, 1803-1982
Documenting the American South
Further Reading
Barnard, John, D. F. McKenzie, David McKitterick and, I. R. Willison, The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain (Cambridge, 2011-2019), 7 vols.
Bates, Denise, Historical Research Using British Newspapers (Pen and Sword, 2016)
Darnton, Robert, “What Is the History of Books?”, Daedalus, 111 (1982)
Davies, C. S.L, 'Representation, Repute, Reality', English Historical Review 124 (2009)
Dobson, Miriam and Benjamin Ziemann, eds, Reading Primary Sources: The Interpretation of Texts from Nineteenth and Twentieth Century History (Routledge, 2008)
Eisenstein, Elizabeth, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change (Cambridge, 1980)
Gaskell, Philip, A New Introduction to Bibliography (Oxford, 1972)
Gough, Hugh, The Newspaper Press in the French Revolution (Chicago, 1988)
Heyd, Uriel, Reading Newspapers: Press and Public in Eighteenth-Century Britain and America (Oxford, 2012)
Howsam, Leslie, The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book (Cambridge, 2015)
Johns, Adrian, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (Chicago, 2009)
Martin, Shannon, and Kathleen Hansen, eds, Newspapers of Record in a Digital Age: From Hot Type to Hot Link (Greenwood, 1998)
Sangha, Laura and Jonathan Willis, Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources (London: Routledge, 2016), chapter 4 ‘Print’.
Suarez, Michael and H. R. Woudhuysen (eds), The Book: A Global History (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Walton, Charles, ed., Into Print: Limits and Legacies of the Enlightenment (Penn State, 2011)
Williams, Kevin, Read All About It!: A History of the British Newspaper (Routledge, 2010)
Withers, Charles W. J and Miles Ogborn (eds), Geographies of the Book (London, 2010)