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Prof. Murdoch's courses: a research guide

A guide to resources for research assignments in Prof. Murdoch's courses on Victorian Britain, History of Childhood, The First World War & British Imperialism.

Pamphlets

19th Century British Pamphlets
This collection, created by RLUK (Research Libraries UK), contains the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in UK research libraries, including the Wilson Anti-Slavery Collection with materials on abolitionists, including women.
Click on the "Pamphlets" tab to display pamphlet titles
C19 The Nineteenth Century Index
Nineteenth Century microfilm collection is indexed here, which includes pamphlets.
Results are divided into six possible sections, based on the indexes searched: books, periodicals, official (government) publications, archives, newspapers, and reference works.
Books:
Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue; The Nineteenth Century publishing program,
Periodicals:
ProQuest’s American Periodicals; ProQuest’s British Periodicals; Cotgreave's Index; An Index to Legal Periodical Literature; Cumulative Index to Niles' Register, 1811–1849; Periodicals Index Online; Poole's Index to Periodical Literature; Stead's Index to Periodical Literature; The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900
Official Publications:
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers; Proceedings of the Old Bailey; The U.S. Serial Set
Archives:
Archive Finder
Newspapers:
Palmer's Index to The Times
Reference:
The "Bookman" Directory of Booksellers, Publishers and Authors; Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism
British Periodicals
Popular and scholarly magazines and journals published in England, Ireland, and Scotland from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century. The bulk of the titles relate to books, literature, and poetry. Other topics include art, drama, music, Christianity, humor, and politics. Date range: 1681-1970

Periodicals/Magazines

C19 The Nineteenth Century Index
Federated search of the central indexes and catalogues of nineteenth-century Anglo-American publications. Searches are not run against the full text of books and articles, but rather the bibliographic records for those publications. However, links to full text are sometimes available.
Results are divided into six possible sections, based on the indexes searched: books, periodicals, official (government) publications, archives, newspapers, and reference works.
Books:
Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue; The Nineteenth Century publishing program,
Periodicals:
ProQuest’s American Periodicals; ProQuest’s British Periodicals; Cotgreave's Index; An Index to Legal Periodical Literature; Cumulative Index to Niles' Register, 1811–1849; Periodicals Index Online; Poole's Index to Periodical Literature; Stead's Index to Periodical Literature; The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900
Official Publications:
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers; Proceedings of the Old Bailey; The U.S. Serial Set
Archives:
Archive Finder
Newspapers:
Palmer's Index to The Times
Reference:
The "Bookman" Directory of Booksellers, Publishers and Authors; Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism
British Periodicals
Includes over 120 titles late 17thc-early 20thc. It's especially good on women, humor, children and leisure/sport. The database is included in C-19, but only for years 1770-1919, and it's a good idea to do a separate search here.
Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online, 1542-1945
Primary sources in women's history

British Medical Journal
Dickens Journals Online
Includes full access to all of Charles Dickens' journals (Household Words, Household Narrative, Household Words Almanac, All the Year Round)

British Library Newspapers
Local, regional, and national newspapers selected by the British Library to best represent social, political, and cultural events in the United Kingdom during the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Date range: 1714-1950
Local and regional newspapers were chosen from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection.
Country Life Archive
British culture and lifestyle magazine. Date range: 1897-2005
Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2016
Archive of the Daily Mail. Also contains the Atlantic Editions printed on board the transatlantic cruise liners between 1923 and 1931.
Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2016
Complete run of the London edition, from its first issue in 1888 through 2016.
Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003
Full facsimile run of the world’s first illustrated weekly newspaper
Leftist Newspapers and Periodicals
English-language publications, primarily from the United States and Great Britain, centered around communist, socialist and Marxist thought, theory and practice. Issues covered include workers’ rights, organized labor, labor strikes, Nazi atrocities, McCarthyism, civil rights, antiwar movements, and class struggles. Date Range: 1845-2015
Nineteenth Century U.K. Periodicals
Popular magazines published in England, Australia, Canada, India, and South Africa during the nineteenth century. Topics include literature, culture, feminism, politics, empire, sport and leisure, science and medicine. Date range 1800-1900
The original versions of most publications are held by the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, the National Library of South Africa, and the National Library of Australia.
Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992
Complete run of the weekly magazine, as well as its annual Almanack, seasonal issues, and indexes

British Medical Journals

The Lancet- a weekly peer reviewed medical journal published in England since 1823. To search for articles published during the WWI era, in HathiTrust:
- using the ADVANCED SEARCH, search for TITLE EXACT PHRASE: The Lancet and FULL TEXT & ALL FIELDS: your keywords and/or phrases (put quotation marks around phrases, eg. "gas gangrene"). Add a publication year range under additional options.
- when you open the full view of a volume, you can search for words and phrases within it by using the SEARCH IN THIS TEXT filter on the left.
The British Medical Journal- The BMJ is one of the world's oldest general medical journals. It published its first weekly edition on 3 October 1840 as the Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal before uniting with the London Journal of Medicine and publishing from January 1853 as the Associated Medical Journal. Four years later in January 1857, this merged journal became the British Medical Journal. To search for articles published during the WWI era, in JStor:
- using the ADVANCED SEARCH, search for JOURNAL TITLE: British Medical Journal and TERMS: your keywords and/or phrases (put quotation marks around phrases, eg. "gas gangrene"), and select a DATE RANGE.