English: Primary Sources

This collection includes the digitized copies of 20-year runs of a half-dozen 18th and 19 century journals - Gentleman's Magazine, The Annual Register, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Notes and Queries, The Builder, and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.

This digital collection from The British Library features access to digitized copies of a diverse selection of historic texts, from the first Atlas of Europe to a 15th Century church missal and the early writings of Jane Austen, among others.

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This collection contains fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from 1500 to the present

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