British Library 19th-Century Newspapers

Building upon previous projects, Oceanic Exchanges is using approximately 3 million pages of nineteenth-century newspapers from the British Library to better understand the structure of digitised newspaper collections and the spread of texts and ideas across global information networks. Although the British Library’s physical collections of historical newspapers are far... [Read More]
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Data Reports Series Introduction

English Suomi Deutsch Español Nederlands English The first phase of the Oceanic Exchanges project includes a detailed study of our various data sets; before we dig into the data, we need to know about its characteristics. What exactly does it comprise? How were these data sets made? And how might... [Read More]
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Data Reports Coming Soon

We will soon be adding our first project documents to this site: data reports written by each of the project’s national teams. These reports will survey the historical newspaper data available in our countries—as well as some freely available from other regions of the world—and provide a unique, transnational perspective... [Read More]
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