A primary source is a piece of information that is generated by a witness, participant, or contemporary of an event, experiment, or time period under study.
Primary sources are characterized by their content, and are not format/information type dependent. They can be found in:
Digital archive of nearly 1,270 newspapers and news pamphlets from the United Kingdom, totalling nearly 1 million pages. Collected by the Reverend Charles Burney, this unique collection represents the largest single archive of 17th and 18th century news media available from the British Library.
Purchase was made possible by Hal F. and Barbra B. Higginbotham.
Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue in 1877.