Discovering History Through Digital Newspaper Collection

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Discovering History Through Digital Newspaper Collections

February 5, 2016

Seth CayleyDirector of Research PublishingGale, a part of Cengage LearningSeth.Cayley@cengage.com

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Historical Newspapers

"Mothersills Sea-Sick Remedy." Illustrated London News [London, England] 19 Apr. 1913: 542

Fenwick-Miller, Mrs. "The Ladies' Column." Illustrated London News [London, England] 22 Aug. 1891: 260.

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Search…

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Sort and Filter Results…

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…and View Historic Documents

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Go in Unexpected Directions…

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…and Reveal “Lost” Stories from History

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Gale’s Historical Newspaper Collections

Times Digital Archive 1785-2010 Sunday Times Digital Archive 1822-2006 Financial Times Historical Archive 1888-2010 The Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2012 Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003 Picture Post Historical Archive 1938-1957 The (BBC) Listener Historical Archive 1929-1991 Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive 1902-2011 Liberty Magazine Archive 1924-1950 Daily Mail Historical Archive 1896-2004 Independent Digital Archive 1986-2012 Punch Historical Archive 1841-1992 The Telegraph Historical Archive 1855-2000 (releasing March) 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection 17th and 18th Century Nichols Newspapers Collection (in 2017) 19th Century British Library Newspapers, Parts 1-5 19th Century UK Periodicals, Parts 1 & 2 19th Century U.S. Newspapers

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Why Study Primary Sources?

Wikipedia article on Israel(Accessed 18 November 2015)

Wikipedia is a secondary source, written long after the events. It tells you that Britain “found itself in intense conflict with the Jewish community”…and that one analyst has described the 1946 King David Hotel bombing” as “one of the most lethal terrorist incidents of the 20th century”…but was this the case? What is the supporting evidence for these statements?

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Because Primary Sources are History as it’s Written

Gallagher, O'dowd, Daily Mail Special Correspondent. "Gang Phones Cunningham 'your Turn next'." Daily Mail [London] 24 July 1946: [1]. http://tinyurl.galegroup.com/tinyurl/qwWF0

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Study Major Moments in Global History

“No 5,062”, Daily Telegraph, 13 Jan 1942

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Explore the Pop Culture of the Past

"Boz in New York." New York Herald [New York, NY] 22 Feb. 1842. Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers. http://tinyurl.galegroup.com/tinyurl/32TcN4

"Dinner to Charles Dickens, Esq." New-England Weekly Review [Hartford, CT] 29 Jan. 1842. Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers. http://tinyurl.galegroup.com/tinyurl/32TgP

"Boz." New York Herald [New York, NY] 26 Jan. 1842. Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers.http://tinyurl.galegroup.com/tinyurl/32Tfs7

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The Importance of Multiple Perspectives

Sambourne, Linley. "Leap-Year." Punch [London, England] 1 Jan. 1908: "Suffragettes in Parliament." Daily Mail [London] 24 Oct. 1906: 7. Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2004. http://tinyurl.galegroup.com/tinyurl/32TWh4

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Follow the Story of World-Leading Companies

"When We Invented the Apple, We Created a New Kind of Bicycle." Financial Times 21 Jan. 1981: 11. The Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2010.http://tinyurl.galegroup.com/tinyurl/32TQs1

"Growing up." Economist 16 Apr. 1983: 76+. The Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2011. http://tinyurl.galegroup.com/tinyurl/32TQg6

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A Way to Engage Students

Picture Post [London, England] 18 Mar. 1939Picture Post Historical Archive

People thought differently in the past…studying the advertisements and culture of past decades can be a revelation to students.

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Beyond “Search and Retrieve”

Increasingly, scholars want to do more than just search and view special collections. They want to analyse them in large numbers using computer programmes, to find undiscovered patterns, and to ask new questions.

Dr Adam Crymble (University of Hertfordshire) is a pioneer of this. He is interested in issues around how immigrants have been treated in Britain historically.

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"U.S. ban on Beatles over religion." Times [London] 5 Aug. 1966: 8. The Times Digital Archive. http://tinyurl.galegroup.com/tinyurl/ktw9X

Were the Beatles Bigger than Jesus?

John Lennon, 1966

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Lennon Was Wrong…Almost

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A More Scholarly Example…

When mapping the word “trial” with “Irish”, we see a strong correlation, showing how Irish people were generally written about in relation to crimes

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