19th Century British Pamphlets
The purpose of this website is to encourage and enable the use of 19th Century British pamphlets. It holds resources created by large cataloguing and digitisation projects, which are briefly summarised below. If you would like to discuss this site or its content with someone, please use the contact details to the right of this page.
Cataloguing project: 19th Century Pamphlets (1999-2002)
This project was led by the University of Birmingham, sponsored by the Consortium of Research Libraries in the British Isles (CURL, now called RLUK), and funded under the Research Libraries Support Programme (RLSP).
It created catalogue records for nearly 180,000 pamphlets held within 21 UK research libraries. In the past, libraries seldom catalogued their individual pamphlets – typically binding them together within volumes and giving them a single catalogue entry, if any. By creating separate records, the 19th Century Pamphlets cataloguing project opened up pamphlets for researchers.
In addition to the catalogue records, the project created an online Pamphlets Guide, describing each of the collections it had catalogued. This guide has been incorporated within the Collections section of this website. Further documentation relating to the cataloguing project is available via the links to the right of this page.