John Nichols (1745-1826) began collecting newspapers around 1778 and made them available to scholars, a tradition continued by the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford. The collection contains over 150,000 pages of printed text, spanning nearly 100 years of history. Essential to the study of British history and culture in crucial periods, and featuring many rare news media resources. (Coverage: 1672-1737)
This collection can also be searched on Gale Primary Sources, an integrated platform that combines Gales digital archives into a single cross-searchable interface.