Gale Launches State Papers Online With Publication of Tudor Era Manuscripts

Gale has launched State Papers Online, 1509-1714, with the release of Part I, State Papers Domestic for the Tudor era (1509–1603). The series will be a new digital resource for the study of Early Modern Britain and Europe. State Papers Online, 1509-1714 reproduces the original historical manuscripts in facsimile linking each manuscript to its corresponding fully-searchable Calendar entry.

State Papers Online will be published over the period 2008 - 2011 in four cross-searchable parts and will be available in libraries on subscription or by purchase. Due to be released in four stages. In addition to the now available Part I which covers the complete collection of State Papers Domestic for the Tudor era (1509–1603). Part II is due for release in early 2009 and will include the Tudor State Papers Foreign, Ireland, Scotland, Borders and Registers of the Privy Council as well as state papers in the British Library’s Cotton, Harley and Yelverton Collections. Parts III and IV containing the 17th-century State Papers Domestic, Foreign, Ireland, Registers of the Privy Council as well as those in the Harley Collection will follow in 2010 and 2011.

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