ncse: The Monthly Repository, 1806-1837

Contains data for The Monthly Repository derived from the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (ncse). The Monthly Repository was the foremost Unitarian monthly magazine in the early nineteenth century. Ncse was a free, online edition of six nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers, developed in a collaboration between the British Library, King’s College London and Birkbeck, University of London. Ncse was first published in 2008 with a second edition in 2018. The Monthly Repository was published in ncse alongside five other publications: The Northern Star (1838-1852); The Leader (1850-1860); The English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864); The Tomahawk (1867-1870); The Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890).

Within this dataset are two versions of the journal. The first contains an archive of every issue of the journal, including OCR transcripts, images of individual items, PDFs of individual issues, accompanying metadata, and an XML table of contents. The second is a simple set of folders containing PDFs of every issue of the journal. The first archive is more suited to digital re-use; the second can be downloaded and browsed more readily by non-expert users. Documentation within the dataset sets out the content in more detail