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Welcome to the Thomson Gale Digital Collections site
for
Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium
The Shakespeare Collection
A global, online environment for scholarly research -- offers enriched functionality and entirely new possibilities for the study of Shakespeare and his works. Quite simply, The Shakespeare Collection is the subject's most comprehensive and authoritative online resource, bringing together general reference data, full-text scholarly periodicals, reprinted criticism, primary source material and the full-text annotated works from The Arden Shakespeare, the world's most recognized scholarly edition.
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19th Century British Library Newspapers
A collection of 48 nationally, regionally, and locally important digitized British newspapers from 1800-1900, 19th Century British Library Newspapers, will unlock hidden resources from the study of the nineteenth century and the Victorian period. London national newspapers, English regional newspapers, home country newspapers from Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and titles in specialist areas such as Victorian radicalism and Chartism all combine to give the researcher an insightful view into the 19th century British Empire.
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The Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2000
For over 160 years The Economist has appealed to the world’s business leaders and the influential. Available in digital format, The Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2000, gives students and researchers complete online access to the global weekly newspaper. It brings to life authoritative weekly reporting, analysis and commentary to the study world affairs of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Release planned for December 2007.
19th Century UK Periodicals: New Readerships: Women's, Children's, Humor and Leisure/Sport
Consisting of more than 600 titles selected by leading academics in 23 subject areas, 19th Century UK Periodicals is an invaluable resource for the study of British life in the 19th century – from art to business, and from children to politics. Most of the materials in this extensive online collection have never been reissued, in any format, since their original publication. Release planned for November 2007.
17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
Sourced from the British Library, this archive is a collection of the newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by Reverend Charles Burney (b. 1757-d. 1817). Although the majority is published in London, there are some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, as well as a handful of examples from the American colonies. Since the original Burney volumes are now in a poor physical state and only available through restricted use, this collection will put these early newspapers into the hands of scholars and researchers, opening up new areas of study in English history as well as in many other fields. Release planned for November 2007.
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