The Lancaster Newsbooks Corpus
| Title | The Lancaster Newsbooks Corpus |
| Editor | McEnery, Tony (ed.); Hardie, Andrew (ed.) |
| Availability | This resource is freely available, you should be able to download it now. |
| Languages | English |
| Editorial Practice | Encoding format: XML |
| OTA keywords |
Linguistic corpora Corpus |
| LC keywords | Corpus linguistics |
| Extent |
|
| Creation Date | Between 2001 and 2007 |
| Source Description | Thomason collection of Civil War tracts : copyflo set — Thomason Tracts Thomason, George, d. 1666 British Library London: RAX Thomason.E 1, etc. , etc. Open Access Request : Note: A set of bound photocopies of a collection of printed pamphlets, books and newspapers, 1640-1661. The originals are in the British Library at shelfmarks E1-E1938, E2103-E2143, and E2255-E2272. |
| Notes |
Mode of access: Online. OTA website This corpus consists of two collections of seventeenth-century English "newsbooks". They address a wide range of news (especially foreign and political news) from the time of their publication (the first 5 and a half months of Oliver Cromwell's reign as Lord Protector). Important contemporary events include Glencairn's Rebellion in Scotland, the negotiation of a peace with Holland, and Queen Christina of Sweden's abdication. |
