Digitized British Newspapers 1800 to 1900

The British Library sponsors a number of huge online resources including digitized copies of the British Newspapers from 1800 to 1900. This mostly subscription Website contains, to quote the site:

• Millions of articles from 49 London, national and regional newspaper (1800 - 1900) titles.
• Over two million pages - all fully text searchable with keywords in context visible in the results list.
• 1000's of illustrations, maps, tables and photographs.

To access the millions of articles in this database, you will need to first register as a user and then purchase either:

• A 24-hour pass for £6.99 that provides you access to 100 articles over that period.
• A 7-day pass for £9.99 that provides you access to 200 articles over that period.

"The digitised nineteenth century British Library newspapers are freely available for people in UK higher and further education, in some UK public libraries, and in some institutions in other countries. Please contact your library to find out about access." See Welcome to British Newspapers Online.

It is pretty obvious that British English spells digitized with an "s." Also, it appears that £6.99 is about $11.18 U.S. dollars, so £9.99 is about $15.97. It seems that you would need a reasonably focused research goal to support that kind of cost. This is especially true, for me, since I can look at 100 articles in a matter of an hour or so, especially if I am getting a lot of negative results.