more than 20,000 pamphlets from some of the most significant

collections held in uk research libraries are being made available

through jstor.

19th Century british Pamphlets

Collaborating wth RLUK (Research Libraries UK) and JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), JSTOR is making these pamphlets searchable alongside current collections to enhance discovery and use across disciplines. Researchers, students, and teachers will have an immensely rich and coherent corpus of primary sources with which to study the sociopolitical and economic landscape of 19th century Britain. Digitization was completed on site by BOPCRIS at the University of Southampton Library. on collectionsThe 19th Century British Pamphlets comprise seven individu-al collections held in universities within the United Kingdom, many of which are whole collections that belonged to indi-vidual politicians or political families. The pamphlets focus on the political, economic, and social issues that fueled the great Parliamentary debates and controversies of the 19th century. Although they have a political emphasis, these collections repre-sent the wide interests of their collectors. Cowen Tracts – Newcastle University Personal collection of Joseph Cowen (1829-1900). A social reformer and Member of Parliament for Newcastle, this collection reflects his interests in social, educational, and economic issues. Earl Grey Pamphlets Collection – Durham University Still owned by the family, this collection was largely accumulated by the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Earls Grey. The Greys were particularly interested in parliamentary reform, colonial affairs, and Catholic emancipation. Foreign and Commonwealth Office Collection – University of ManchesterSent back to London by British ambassadors to help with policy formation, these rare publications from overseas have an em-phasis on material related to South America and the Near East and the various European political “questions” of the 19th cen-tury. This collection also includes unique early material from Australasia.

highlights include:• A vindication of the rights of men, in a letter to the Right Honourable

Edmund Burke; occasioned by his Reflections on the revolution in France, by Mary Wollstonecraft

•British policy in China: Neutral war and warlike peace!, by John Scarth

• Comparison between Mr. Bentham’s views on punishment, and those advocated in connexion with the mark system, by Alexander Maconochie

•England, the United States, and the Southern Confederacy, by Fitzwilliam Sargent

•India: Its dangers considered in 1856, by Nathaniel Alves•Chartism: a new organization of the people, embracing a plan for the

education and improvement of the people, politically and socially, by Lovett, Collins, Hume

•On the philosophy of medicine, by Robert Mortimer Glover•Women and work, by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon

With pamphlets by and about:•Charles Babbage •Charles Bradlaugh •John Bright•W.E. Gladstone •Joseph Hume •Karl Marx•John Stuart Mill •Florence Nightingale •Thomas Paine

Valuable content inside and appended to pamphlets:Advertisements Annotations CartoonsDiagrams and maps Engravings LettersPetitions Portraits

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Hume Tracts – UCLPersonal collection of Joseph Hume (1777-1855), Radical member of Parliament. Hume’s collection covers the major political, economic, and social developments and reforms taking place in Britain in the early part of the 19th century along with the causes he particularly championed, such as universal suffrage, Catholic emancipation, a reduction in the power of the Anglican church, and an end to imprisonment for debt. Knowsley Pamphlet Collection – University of Liverpool This collection reflects the political careers of the Earls of Derby, primarily Edward George, the 14th Earl and three-time Prime Minister, and his son, Edward Henry, the 15th Earl, who was Colonial Secretary and later Indian secre-tary in his father’s administration. India and Ireland figure prominently here, along with many pamphlets on religion and church affairs, finance and taxation, and education and law reform. Selections – London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)These selected pamphlets cover political party materials, including election manifestos and political cartoons. There are also collections from pressure groups such as the Fa-bian Society, Imperial Federation Defence Committee, Poor Law Reform Association, Workhouse Visiting Society, Liberal and Property Defence League, and from coopera-tive movements such as the Cooperative Women’s Guild. Selections – University of Bristol Bristol’s selection, especially strong on 19th century com-merce, economics, finance, politics, religion, and sociology, includes pamphlets from the library of the National Liberal Club, along with those from other political parties.

about bopcris at the university of southamptonThe pamphlets are being digitized by the University of Southampton Library in its specialist BOPCRIS Digiti-sation Unit. BOPCRIS has many years of experience in digitizing large collections of historic print publications.

about rluk Research Libraries UK (RLUK), formerly known as CURL, is a major grouping of UK libraries, comprising 29 Universi-ty, National and other research libraries. Its mission is to in-crease the ability of research libraries to share resources for the benefit of the local, national, and international research community. The new RLUK strategy “The Power of Knowl-edge” has identified digitization as one of its six key strategic themes in synergy with the research information infrastruc-ture theme, and RLUK is working proactively to promote the research digitization agenda in partnership with the JISC. In addition to its support for the 19th Century British Pamphlets project, RLUK has sponsored Copac, a database of over 35 million books and serials held in UK libraries, the UK Archives Hub, a national gateway to descriptions of ar-chives in UK universities and colleges, and EthOSnet, which will provide electronic access to UK theses.

jisc digitisation programme 19th Century British Pamphlets is part of the JISC Digitisation Programme, which has received £22 million funding from the Higher Education Funding Councils for England and Wales to make available a wide range of heri-tage and scholarly resources of national importance. The Programme includes sound recordings, moving pictures, newspapers, maps, images, cartoons, census data, journals and parliamentary papers for use by the UK further and higher education communities. 19th Century British Pam-phlets will be made freely available to non-commercial edu-cational and research institutions in the United Kingdom.

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