The John Johnson Collection: Now on Trial

The John Johnson Collection broadens access to a wide array of rare or unique archival materials documenting various aspects of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The material is made up of different types of printed document, including posters and handbills for theatrical and non-theatrical entertainments, broadsides relating to murders and executions, book and journal prospectuses, popular topographical prints, and printed advertising material. It covers subject areas which include, among others, histories of consumption, leisure, gender, popular culture, commerce, technology, crime. Each item is presented as a full-colour, high-resolution facsimile. Trial access to this databases will expire on 25th May 2008. Click here for access