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New electronic resources

Newly acquired electronic resources available to readers using the London Reading Rooms.

Owing to licensing restrictions, these resources can only be accessed from British Library workstations within our Reading Rooms and Business & IP Centre.

Except where indicated, titles are available in all the Library's London Reading Rooms.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online

Digitised primary source material related to political and social history of 19thc Britain.  Collections accessible: British Politics & Society, containing materials related to political and social history of Britain and British Theatre, Music and Literature: High and Popular Culture.

Churchill Archive

The Churchill Archive is a digital library of modern international history. It includes more than 800,000 pages of original documents, produced between 1874 and 1965, ranging from Winston S. Churchill’s personal correspondence to his official exchanges with kings, presidents, politicians, and military leaders. [Trial subscription]

  Book Review Digest Retrospective

A bibliographic database that cites and provides excerpts of reviews of adult and children's fiction and non-fiction in over 500 key English-language popular magazines, newspapers and academic journals from 1905-1982.