The databases on this page include page images of historical periodicals from Great Britain and North America from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. The following database also allows cross-searching of British and American periodicals from multiple time periods:
Eighteenth Century Collections Online provides access to facsimile page images and full text of works published in the British Isles (plus some from North America) during the 18th century. The collection includes books, pamphlets, and broadsides. Users can search within texts keyword and download them as PDFs.
17th & 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers contains the digitized materials (not just newspapers) collected by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) and held in the British Library. A useful source for find information about the United Kingdom and the wider world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.The database's advanced search offers searching publications by title, place, language, section, and date. The Publications Search link includes searching by format, including (among others) books, broadsides, forms, newspapers, and pamphlets.
Contains a wide range of British newspapers and journals published from 1800-1900. Includes material not only from Great Britain ( but not Wales) but also from a number of British possessions at the time, including Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, and South Africa.