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Well it’s got the web design quality of a 1998 site, but the Internet Library of Early Journals, ILEJ, is actually pretty cool. It’s got scanned images from a number of sixteenth and seventeen century journals for your perusing pleasure.

Journals include (the last one is the real gem):

“Annual Register — started in 1758, an annual survey of European and world events from a British perspective, but including biographical notices, parliamentary and legal reports, and some book reviews, divided into topical sections with chronological sub-divisions.

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine — started in 1817 (as a Tory rival to the Whig Edinburgh Review), a medium for imaginative literature, publishing English poetry, essays and especially prose fiction, and pioneering the presentation of European literature (particularly German) to a British audience.

The Builder — started in 1843, a mine of information on domestic and foreign building developments from the perspective of the architect, engineer, constructor and art historian, including accounts of new buildings, materials, processes and books, and articles on ancient monuments and other historic buildings.

Gentleman’s Magazine — started in 1731, a Britain-focused miscellany of information about people, places and events, including news summaries, parliamentary reports, biographies and obituary notices, poems, essays, and a register of current publications.

Notes and Queries — started in 1849, “a medium of intercommunication for literary men, artists, antiquaries, genealogists, etc.”, carrying brief reports of completed research on humanities and related subjects and questions inviting answers in subsequent issues.

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society — started in 1660, initially as a forum for the publication of scientific papers of both a general and a specialized nature, although increasingly a learned journal carrying refereed papers from established scientists.”

Visit Site: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/