Tuesday 6 June 2017

British Newspaper Archive approaches half way point

Congratulations to the British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) as it approaches its halfway stage as a project, having almost reached 20 million pages of newspaper content (19,947,210 pages at time of writing), out of a proposed 40 million pages over a ten year period.

The following collections and years have been added over the last seven days (including a potentially useful Londonderry Sentinel for my research!):


Roscommon Messenger
1910, 1915-1919

Glasgow Evening Citizen
1867, 1869, 1882, 1884, 1887-1888, 1892

Oswestry Advertiser
1855, 1870

Londonderry Sentinel
1862-1868, 1875, 1883, 1893, 1895-1899, 1901-1907, 1909, 1930-1940

Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail
1900-1909, 1911-1919

Norfolk News
1871-1897, 1899-1910

Cornish Times
1860, 1877

Oxford Times
1888, 1890, 1892, 1894

The People
1918

Sunday Mirror
1914

West Somerset Free Press
1872

Weston-super-Mare Gazette, and General Advertiser
1878-1886, 1888-1896, 1898-1900, 1903-1907

Weston Mercury
1885-1896, 1899-1909

Lake's Falmouth Packet and Cornwall Advertiser
1873-1910

Cricket and Football Field
1910

Isle of Wight Observer
1888, 1901-1907, 1910-1919

Eastern Morning News
1886, 1888

Boston Guardian
1930-1936

Mayo Constitution
1872

Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser
1902-1910

Fraserburgh Herald and Northern Counties' Advertiser
1893-1936, 1938-1944, 1946-1949, 1951-1957

Pateley Bridge & Nidderdale Herald
1883-1888, 1890-1894, 1896, 1898, 1900-1904

Isle of Wight County Press and South of England Reporter
1903-1910

Annandale Observer and Advertiser
1873, 1886, 1893, 1895

Wiltshire Times and Trowbridge Advertiser
1883-1888, 1890-1893

Barnet Press
1897

Chris

UPDATE: And we're now there!


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