Gale Primary Sources are a collection of digitized primary source material useful for historians, literary and media scholars. They include:

17th and 18th Century Burney Collection
19th Century UK Periodicals
British Library Newspapers
The Times Digital Archive

The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Collection
A collection of seventeenth and eighteenth century English news media compiled by Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) in 700 bound volumes. It includes pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers, ranging from early parliamentary debates and proclamations, to coffee house newsbooks. Useful for historians of politics, education and economics as well as the printed press.

Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals is a collection of titles covering the events, lives, values, and themes that shaped the nineteenth century world. It provides an invaluable, fully-searchable resource for the study of British life in the nineteenth century. It includes commercial lifestyle publishing in Britain with a particular focus on women, children, humour, and leisure activity in the Victorian age. A separate guide is available for this database.

British Library Newspapers
A wide range of local and regional newspapers which reflect the social, political, and cultural events of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, including titles such as the Illustrated Police News to radical papers like the Chartist Northern Star. These newspapers provide important information about life in towns and major cities, providing researchers with a unique, first-hand perspective on history, for example, you can find specialist titles such as the Poor Law Unions’ Gazette. With more than 160 newspaper titles, the series is comprised of approximately 5.5 million pages of historic content, from articles to advertisements. This collection illuminates diverse and distinct regional attitudes, cultures, and vernaculars, providing an alternative viewpoint to the London-centric national press over a period of more than 200 years.

The Times Digital Archive
The Times of London is widely considered to be the world’s ‘newspaper of record’ and its archive is an invaluable resource to historians. The Times Digital Archive includes every page, editorial, news item, announcement, obituary and advertisement from The Times newspaper from 1785-2014. A separate guide is available for this database.