Newspapers and Magazines

Overview

If you have access to a good university library, you may be able to access The Waterloo Directory, which has full-text, searchable, of a huge amount of material. If you're not at such a library, it'll cost you about $9,000 to sign up! Sadly, this does not include full-text; it's just a complete searchable index of everything anybody published in some 50,000 publications.

Also at a decent university library, you should be able to get microfilm reels of The Times, which are a pain in the butt to use but there you go.

The Victorian Web provides a good overview of major periodicals, with lots of bits and links.

The list of newspapers provided by Charles Dickens, Jr., transcribed on The Victorian Dictionary, gives some indication of why these things are not more readily available today. There were just so many of them, and the paper could be reused for various things. The larger list of publication-types, also at The Victorian Web, will give a good overview sense.

There are some journals available at Oxford's Internet Library of Early Journals, but not many. These should be freely accessible.

Unfortunately the most interesting newspapers for Jack the Ripper purposes, the Illustrated London News, the Illustrated Police News, and the Pall Mall Gazette, do not seem to be available almost at all except in British depositories. If anyone knows how to get hold of these things, please let the rest of us know.

Links, Articles, Etc.

For Ripper-specific material, bear in mind that Casebook: Jack the Ripper has just about everything; indeed, this is really the heart of the site.

-- ChrisLehrich^? - 29 Dec 2004