{"id":67,"date":"2009-05-17T23:21:05","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T12:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/?p=67"},"modified":"2009-05-17T23:23:21","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T12:23:21","slug":"67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/2009\/05\/67\/","title":{"rendered":"Newspapers as sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/?p=61\">previous item<\/a> I referred to the <a href=\"http:\/\/ndpbeta.nla.gov.au\/ndp\/del\/home\">Australian Newspapers on line<\/a> project. There are a number of other resources that I have encountered in my research.<\/p>\n<p>The first I would like to mention is the transcription of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vc.id.au\/edg\/\">Guyana colonial newspapers<\/a> being transcribed by John Wilmer. These are a valuable source of information for an area for which it is extremely difficult to obtain any primary sources.<\/p>\n<p>A great newspaper source for English research is the <a href=\"http:\/\/gale.cengage.co.uk\/britishlibrarynewspapers\/\">19th Century British newspapers from the British Library<\/a>. I have accessed these online by being eligible for a reader&#8217;s card at the <a href=\"http:\/\/nla.gov.au\">National Library of Australia<\/a> (NLA) and the <a href=\"http:\/\/slv.vic.gov.au\">State Library of Victoria<\/a> (SLV). I&#8217;ll give some examples of specific interesting items in a subsequent item. The NLA also provides access to the 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers, however I&#8217;ve yet to explore these fully.<\/p>\n<p>Another great resource provided through the NLA and SLV is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gale.cengage.com\/DigitalCollections\/products\/Times\/\">Times Digital Archive<\/a>. I&#8217;ve found a number of Van Cooten and Smithers items in this collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous item I referred to the Australian Newspapers on line project. There are a number of other resources that I have encountered in my research. The first I would like to mention is the transcription of Guyana colonial <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/2009\/05\/67\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sources","tag-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}