{"id":2113,"date":"2020-06-23T10:08:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T10:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/?p=2113"},"modified":"2020-06-23T10:08:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T10:08:53","slug":"new-african-newspapers-series-1-1800-1922","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/2020\/06\/23\/new-african-newspapers-series-1-1800-1922\/","title":{"rendered":"New! African Newspapers, Series 1 1800-1922"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m pleased to let you know that the Library had recently purchased the digital primary source database African Newspapers, Series 1 1800-1922<\/strong> part of the World Newspaper Archive from Readex. This gives you unique access to a fully searchable collection of historical newspapers from Africa.<\/p>\n

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You can access the African Newspapers, Series 1 1800-1922<\/strong>\u00a0via the\u00a0Newspapers, Magazines and Other News Sources guide<\/strong><\/a>. Or you can access it via the\u00a0Databases A-Z list<\/a>. Individual newspaper titles will also be added to DiscoverEd<\/a> in the near future.<\/p>\n

African Newspapers, Series 1<\/strong> is a groundbreaking online collection providing more than 60 searchable African newspapers published in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Featuring English and foreign-language titles from Angola, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n

The database offers unparalleled coverage of the issues and events that shaped the continent and its peoples between 1800 and 1922. \u00a0From repercussions of the Atlantic slave trade, life under colonial rule and the results of the Berlin Conference to the emergence of Black journalism, the Zulu Wars and the rejection of Western imperialism, these newspapers provide a wide range of viewpoints on diverse cultures.<\/p>\n

You can access the African Newspapers, Series 1 1800-1922<\/strong>\u00a0via the\u00a0Newspapers, Magazines and Other News Sources guide<\/strong><\/a>. Or you can access it via the\u00a0Databases A-Z list<\/a>. Individual newspaper titles will also be added to DiscoverEd<\/a>\u00a0in the near future.<\/p>\n

Access is only available to current students and staff at the University of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

Caroline Stirling \u2013 Academic Support Librarian for School of Social and Political Science<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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