5.25 million pages now available! www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk We’re adding up to 8,000 pages every day. What will you discover?
Read a Free Story About the Battle via the Timeline on the BNA Homepage On 18 June 1815, British and Prussian forces defeated Napoleon and his army at the Battle of Waterloo. If you go to the homepage of the British Newspaper Archive and look at the content in the Timeline (located below the map of the UK), then you can then read a free story about the famous battle. Just click on the ‘Battle of Waterloo’ link in the …
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The Lanarkshire Family History Society (LFHS) is holding a Military and Family History Day on Saturday 23 June. This event will be held at the David Livingstone Centre in Blantyre, and runs from 10.30 to 16.00. Admission is free if you just wish to attend the fair. If you wish to go to the talks that are also being held, then the admission to the talks is £3. It should be a grand day out for genealogists of all ages! …
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To celebrate Father’s Day, we thought we’d have a rummage in the newspaper archive to see what interesting stories we could find. As usual, we found lots of interesting stories. We picked this article from 1931 because it reveals so much about the times. For instance, it shows the effects that prohibition would have on gift buying in the USA. It also considers (rather snobbily) the way in which the paternal day of celebration was gradually becoming part of life …
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Dundonians! Roll up, roll, up, read all about it! New issues of “the Tully” now available! In addition to the existing year range available on The BNA, we now have issues of The Evening Telegraph (Dundee) from 1904. The Evening Telegraph is a daily evening newspaper launched on 13 March 1877 in two editions, costing a halfpenny. Still in publication today, the paper is affectionately known by Dundonians as “the Tully”. What else is new? Check out our new ‘Newspaper Titles’ page to …
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When you are viewing a newspaper page . . . 1. Select the article of interest 2. Select ‘Edit Article Text’ form the left hand side options 3. Click ‘Show Article Text’ (green/blue button below the article text in the left column) 4. A popup (blue) will then show with the heading, ‘Article text, suitable for copy and paste’ 5. You can then copy and paste the OCR text for personal use I hope this helps! More tips coming …
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The suffragette, writer and early feminist, Millicent Fawcett, was born on 11 June 1847. She had an amazing life and, following her husband’s death in 1884, increased her involvement in political campaigning. As shown by the 1875 story below from the ‘Sheffield Daily Telegraph’, her writing influenced 1,000s of people, and the word ‘Millicent’ was often used to demonstrate people’s knowledge in the area of political economy. The 1893 story from the ‘Gloucester Citizen’, meanwhile, shows that this ‘Queen of …
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New issues of the Western Gazette available! We now have issues from 1950 (complete year) available in the archive . . . This means that we have issues of The Western Gazette covering 1863 – December 1950. There’s a lot of information hidden in there! What will you discover? ‘A weekly newspaper for Somerset, Dorset, Wilts, Hants and Berks’ not your thing? Check out our new ‘Newspaper Titles’ page to see which new issues have been added in the past 30 …
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Just in case you’d forgotten about it, the Transit of Venus will be taking place on the 5th and 6th of June 2012. What with all the Diamond Jubilee celebrations, unfortunately, this major astronomical event has been somewhat eclipsed by the Queen over the last few days. We did two, quick search in the newspaper archive for ‘transit of Venus’ and ‘Venus in transit’ and, once again, we found scores of fascinating reports and stories about previous transits. As the …
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The Anglo-Scottish FHS in Manchester, which is a branch of the Manchester and Lancashire FHS, is holding an ‘Ancestry Workshop’ on Saturday 16 June. This event will take place in the Research Room at Clayton House at 59 Piccadilly, Manchester. The workshop starts at 11am and finishes at 1pm. To find out more about this event, visit the MLFHS website. – www.mlfhs.org.uk