Whats special about 19th century pamphlets?
Pamphlets were an important means of public debate in the 19th century, covering the key political, social, technological and environmental issues of their day. They are a valuable primary resource, of relevance to a wide range of disciplines. However, they are underutilised within research and teaching because they are generally quite difficult to access – often bound together in large numbers or otherwise hard to find in the few research libraries that hold them. The proposed digital pamphlet collection will also complement other collections of parliamentary and newspaper literature currently being created. Building on earlier work The 19th Century Pamphlets Online project extends previous work RLSP-funded RLUK work to increase awareness of 19th century pamphlets in UK research libraries (http://www.is.bham.ac.uk/rslp/pamphlets/pamphlets.htm). The RSLP work described 49 collections and created over 179,000 records in Copac (http://copac.ac.uk/), making their existence and availabilit
