A unique visual archive of 19th century Victorian Britain, including illustrations and photographs of events ranging from the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the Boer war, will be available online for the first time from today.
The Illustrated London News archive [from Gale Cengage] holds 250,000 pages and as many as three-quarters of a million illustrations, from as far back as 1842.
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Highlights from the 160-year archive include reports by Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Wilkie Collins and Agatha Chrstie, as well as artwork by William Heath Robinson, Louis Wain and Mabel Lucie Atwell. ILN covered world events, such as the Boer war, and domestic celebrations including the Great Exhibition of 1851, publishing the plans for the Crystal Palace event before even Prince Albert had seen them.
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The online archive, which goes up to 2003, will initially be available only to libraries and educational institutions.
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