The British Newspaper Archive added 300,000 new pages to the website last month, including six brand new titles.
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You can now search editions of the Daily Mirror (the national newspaper), Hamilton Advertiser, The Lancashire Evening Post, The Oxford Times, Perthshire Advertiser and The Shetland Times. A full list of recent additions is provided below.
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Aberdeen Evening Express – 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954
Aberdeen Journal – 1844, 1845, 1847, 1848, 1851, 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863, 1865, 1866, 1867, 1868, 1870, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1876, 1886, 1888, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1898, 1903
Arbroath Herald and Advertiser for the Montrose Burghs – 1889
Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette – 1800, 1803, 1807, 1808, 1811, 1813, 1863
Birmingham Daily Mail, The – 1914, 1916, 1917
Birmingham Daily Post – 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918
Birmingham Gazette – 1918
Birmingham Journal – 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835, 1836, 1838
Bradford Observer – 1866, 1867
Burnley Express – 1905, 1906
Burnley Gazette – 1902
Cambridge Independent Press – 1871, 1873, 1875, 1876, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1894, 1895, 1898, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920
Cheltenham Chronicle – 1887, 1930
Chester Chronicle – 1775, 1811
Chester Courant – 1825, 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829
Coventry Herald – 1890, 1891, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1907
Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough – 1914, 1915, 1916, 1918
Daily Mirror – 1915
Derby Mercury – 1848
Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald – 1862
Dover Express – 1898, 1950
Dublin Evening Mail – 1831, 1833, 1840, 1842
Dundee Advertiser – 1863
Durham County Advertiser, The – 1844
Edinburgh Evening News – 1894
Evening Despatch – 1914, 1916
Evening Telegraph – 1881
Falkirk Herald – 1866
Gloucester Citizen – 1911, 1922
Gloucester Journal – 1793, 1795, 1796
Grantham Journal – 1928
Hamilton Advertiser – 1917, 1918
Hartlepool Mail – 1881
Hastings and St Leonards Observer – 1942, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1952
Lancashire Evening Post, The – 1887, 1888, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1899, 1900, 1902, 1904, 1905, 1908, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1933, 1935, 1937, 1940, 1944, 1946
Leamington Spa Courier – 1839
Liverpool Daily Post – 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918
Manchester Courier, and Lancashire General Advertiser – 1898
Morpeth Herald – 1914, 1917, 1918
Newcastle Daily Journal and Courant – 1917
Oxford Times, The – 1863, 1864, 1865, 1866, 1867, 1868, 1869, 1870
Perthshire Advertiser – 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917
Portsmouth Evening News – 1938
Sheffield Daily Telegraph – 1865, 1891, 1892
Sheffield Evening Telegraph – 1906, 1908, 1910, 1913, 1915, 1916, 1918
Shetland Times, The – 1872, 1885
Shields Daily Gazette – 1871, 1874
Southern Reporter – 1858, 1928, 1929
Stamford Mercury – 1746, 1829
Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette – 1911, 1935, 1936, 1937
Sussex Agricultural Express, The – 1892, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1953
Western Gazette – 1876, 1877
Wiltshire Independent – 1836, 1845
Yorkshire Evening Post – 1913, 1942, 1944, 1952
Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, The – 1867, 1893, 1909, 1923, 1925
7 comments On 300,000 newspaper pages added, including the Daily Mirror
BNA Pages Added – The Real Story:
Dec = 175,000
Jan = 125,000
Feb = 200,000
Mar = 135,000
Apr = 300,000
Total = 935,000
Actual Capacity for 1 Year = 20,000 pages
a day x 365 days = 7,300,000 pages
Actual Capacity for 5 months = 3,020,000
pages
Actual Performance Achievement for Dec to
Apr = 30.96% of capacity
Target = 4,000,000 pages in 1 year
(1,655,000 for 5 months)
Actual Performance Achievement for Dec –
Apr = 56.5% of target
Total pages quoted 29-11-12 was 6,000,000
Total pages quoted 21-06-13 was 6,913,016
Total
pages quoted 12-05-14 was 7,961,200
That’s
just a miserly 1,048,184 pages in the last 11 months!
That
is less than 95,300 pages a month and less than 5 days a month at 20,000 pages
a day 🙁
Why
is the CUSHY target of 4,000,000 pages only 55% of the 7,300,000 pages actual capacity?
Why
has the BNA only achieved 56.5% of target ie a deficit of 720,000 pages
(1,655,000-935,000) over the last 5 months.
How
on earth does the BNA expect to reach the promised 4,000,000 pages (333,333
pages a month) target for 1 year???
The
current deficit of 720,000 pages for the last 5 months is equal to more than 2
months of a 12-month subscription being lost and wasted on top of the 4 months
that was wasted in 2013 when ZERO new pages were added.
Why
has the BNA failed to extend the subscriptions of paying customers by the 6
months that have been lost and wasted due to the BNA’s failure to deliver?
Why
has there been no honest mention of this horrendous failure and what has happened
to the results of the survey we completed in January?
Why
are there virtually no comments from paying customers on the blog?
Hi Gaz, the amount we add will fluctuate from month to month and year to year. Our target is to add 40 million pages over 10 years. We hope you enjoy exploring the new additions this month.
Excuse me, but who are you and why are you incapable of answering the questions asked? Just out of interest, are you deliberately extracting the urine or are you genuinely clueless? Your own stated target is 4 million pages this year and you have already wasted more than 2 months of our subscription by failing to deliver – on top of the 4 months you wasted in 2013. Why have you failed to extend our subscriptions by 6 months?
Stamford Mercury – 1746, 1829, 1914, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945
Where are the Stamford Mercury issues past 1899?
Friday 29 December 1899 is the most recent that is accessible
Thanks very much for pointing this out, Bedders. We’ll investigate what’s happened.
Hi Bedders, we’ve investigated and the post-1899 years are pending at the moment while we get agreement to publish them from the copyright holder. Thank you very much for pointing this out – we’ve updated the list above accordingly.
The Lancashire Evening Post link isn’t working and it doesn’t appear in the newspaper index. Can you rectify, please?