The British Library website has two million pages worth of nineteenth century newspapers digitised and available for searching. Disappointingly, viewing articles requires paid 24 hour or 7 day pass, unlike the equivalent (beta) service of the National Library of Australia.

Designed to serve as a reference for students, educators, authors, researchers, dabblers, dilet­tantes, hacks and the merely curious.

The Open Library is another way to access the mind-bogglingly huge archive of full text digitised books at the Internet Archive; very neat site design and great options for refining searches.

A selection of public domain horror and Gothic fiction, scien­ti­fiction, fantasy and sword and sorcery titles.

The London Illustrated News was the world’s first illus­trated weekly newspaper. This image library features a selection of woodcut illus­tra­tions from the newspaper dating from the mid-nineteenth century onwards.