This week The British Newspaper Archive is thrilled to announce the release of a brand new title, The Atlas or, in its full form, The Atlas and General Newspaper and Journal of Literature. The size of the paper caused a sensation when it first came out. The London based newspapers was printed on 40cm sheets, double the size of average papers, making it the largest newspaper. Its size was reflected in the price of 10d, which would be close to £5 today. The price was …
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This week we have 5 brand new papers for you, bringing our total number of newspapers to 820. We have also added to nineteen of our existing titles. In total we added 161,804 pages this past week. We have added new papers for Somerset, London, Shropshire, Gloucestershire and Cheshire. Among our new titles is The Atlas – A General Newspaper and Journal of Literature. One of the paper’s claims to fame was that it was ‘on the largest sheet ever …
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In the last week we have added new content to six existing titles on The British Newspaper Archive. These additions totaled 92,542 pages! Register now and view 3 pages for FREE New content added The six titles that have been updated can be seen in the chart below. You can click on the titles, which will take you to the title’s landing page. Title Years added Aberdeen Evening Express 1958-1965 Aberdeen Press and Journal 1963-1965 Athletic News 1878, 1900 Daily Telegraph …
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We added 93,998 pages to the Archive this week. After our bumper week of 13 brand new titles last week we spent this week consolidating some of our existing titles. We have added multiple years to two of our eleven sports titles, and added years to London, West Yorkshire and Shropshire titles. Register now and view 3 pages for FREE The Athletic News was founded in 1875 and we currently have a selection of years between 1875 and …
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We are thrilled to announce we have reached another milestone in our project to digitise up to 40 million newspaper pages from the British Library’s vast collection of historic British & Irish newspapers. Following the addition of a newspaper title from County Leitrim, our online archive now provides a title from all 32 counties across Ireland. Register now and view 3 pages for FREE The British Newspaper Archive contains more than 21 million newspaper pages from 815 titles from England, Wales, …
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It’s been a busy week at the Archive. We’ve added 191,119 pages to the archive. We have 13 brand new titles to share with you, and have updated 18 existing titles. With the addition of The Leitrim Advertiser this past week we are delighted to say that we now have a newspaper for every county in Ireland. This brings the number of titles we have for Ireland to 150. This week we also added The Portadown Times for County Armagh …
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This week we added 93,698 new pages to the Archive. We added two brand new titles and additional pages to 14 existing titles. For our brand new titles this week we are particularly delighted to announce the addition of The Illustrated War News for the First World War. We have also added the Colchester Gazette for Essex, a paper still in circulation today. Our additions this week included adding new years to several of our Welsh titles, and to the …
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This past week we added significantly to our most recently added titles. We added 112,987 pages to nine existing titles, and published three years (1890-1892) of the short-lived Scottish newspaper, the Brechin Herald and Angus and Mearns News. This paper covers both the historic eastern counties of Angus and Kincardineshire. Local titles, such as the Brechin Herald and Angus and Mearns News, could often have very short runs. In a nineteenth century version of the .com boom the latter half …
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Over the past seven days, we’ve added 17,122 pages to The British Newspaper Archive. These additions include three brand new titles as well as additions to three existing titles. For the first time ever, we offer articles from these three English papers: Alcester Chronicle (published in Alcester, Warwickshire), Eastern Daily Press (published in Norfolk, Norwich), and Ripley and Heanor News and Ilkeston Division Free Press (published in Ripley, Derbyshire). Register today and view 3 free pages! By clicking on the titles below, you can …
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In the last seven days, we added 182,120 pages to The Archive. This includes four new titles and additional issues to fourteen existing titles. Joining The British Newspaper Archive this week are two new titles from Wales – Abergavenny Chronicle and Tenby Observer – and one from Scotland – Milngavie and Bearsden Herald. Another new title is the Weekly Casualty Lists (War Office & Air Ministry) published during the First World War. The weekly lists printed the names of soldiers who died as well …