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New title available! The Staffordshire Advertiser

The Staffordshire Advertiser (1801-1839) is now available on the site! http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1800-01-01/1849-12-31?frontpage=false&newspapertitle=staffordshire%20advertiser The Staffordshire Advertiser was established in Stafford in 1795 and became the main county newspaper for Staffordshire. Its proprietor was Joshua Drewry (c.1773-1841), a printer and bookseller in Stafford who also ran a circulating library. As the son of a printer in Lincoln and nephew of a printer and newspaper proprietor in Derby, Drewry clearly had printing in his blood. He was a supporter of playwright Richard Sheridan, Whig MP for

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Online Newspaper Archive Passes the 5 Million Page Mark

The biggest digitisation of newspapers to take place in the UK The British Newspaper Archive website has just reached another milestone, as page number 5,000,000 was added to the site at www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk. With a target of 40 million pages by 2020, this 10-year project is the biggest digitisation of newspapers to take place in the UK. Up to 8,000 pages (that’s 120,000 stories) are being added to the site each day, and there are now well over 200 titles from

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New Title: The Grantham Journal, 1904

The Grantham Journal is now available on The British Newspaper Archive. Currently we have issues from 1904 available to view. More coming soon! Watch this space . . . http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1904-01-01/1904-12-31?newspapertitle=grantham%20journal&frontpage=false What else is new? Check out our new ‘Newspaper Titles’ page to see which new issues have been added in the past 30 days: http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/home/NewspaperTitles

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