Nelson & His World

A number of you will know of the company Gale/Cengage who were responsible for the digitalization of the Times newspapers from 1785-1985.

I have just been reading about another amazing project that they are undertaking.

It is called Eighteenth Century Collections Online and they describe it as:



Phew!

In a nutshell it will be a searchable database containing every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, (along with thousands of important works from the Americas.)

And that means 26 million pages of text from more than 136,000 titles.

Doubtless it will only be available through major libraries who will have to pay a hefty fee for the privilege.

But I am positively salivating at the thought.

I haven't sussed out exactly what stage they are at yet - but you can read more about it here:

http://www.gale.cengage.com/DigitalCollections/products/ecco/about.htm

MB

Mark -

many thanks for that information which will be an amazing resource for scholars and enthusiasts alike. Even Luddites like me who prefer 'real' books have to acknowledge what a boon it is that the internet allows access to so many difficult/impossible-to-find works.

Great!