Ever wondered what happens behind the scenes at The British Newspaper Archive? We sat down with Product Director Ian Tester to find out who he is and what he does. What does your job involve? I’m responsible for growing the business in all its myriad forms. My role covers marketing, building a better product, tweaking the pricing, choosing newspapers that we think will be of most interest and generally keeping everything running smoothly. Less excitingly, it also involves balancing …
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In this month’s ‘behind the scenes’ blog post, Scott and Andrew from The British Newspaper Archive’s scanning team tell us about their trip to London to attend Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE. ************** Welcome to the second update from the newspaper scanning team in Boston Spa, Yorkshire. We are now in full operation and working to the high standards that the original Colindale team set for us. Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE In February, we …
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Welcome to the first of a new series of blog posts from our newspaper scanning team. This month, our digitisation officer Andrew tells us about what his team does. ******* The digitisation team have been scanning newspapers at Boston Spa for almost two months. This series of blog posts will give you a ‘behind the scenes’ look at our work, how we capture images using state-of-the-art paper and microfilm scanners and how those images get onto The British Newspaper …
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The British Newspaper Archive’s scanning team have recently moved from Colindale to Boston Spa and we’re thrilled to report that they’ve now started digitising the first newspapers in their new home! Here are some behind-the-scenes photos: Read more about how The British Newspaper Archive digitises historic newspapers
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The BNA Development Team has been busy working on adding new features to the website. So when you login to the site, you’ll notice two, wee icons in the top right corner of the site (just below the British Library and brightsolid logos). If you click the icon to the left (i.e. the clock icon), you can click on the last give pages you viewed and also you last five searches. If you click the other icon (i.e. the cog), …
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Exciting announcement! NEW on The British Newspaper Archive. Literally . . . We have introduced a ‘Newspaper Titles’ page. You can now see ‘Recently Added Issues’ (titles that have been added to in the last 30 days) PLUS a total list of the titles that are available on the site and the inclusive year range. With up to 8.000 pages added every day, there’s always more to discover. What stories will you uncover? http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/home/NewspaperTitles
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We are pleased to announce the introduction of Gift Vouchers on The BNA! With four great value Packages to choose from (12 month, 30, 7 and 2 day), why not treat a loved one today! We will email you with the Gift Voucher which you can then print or forward to your friend. The Gift Voucher email contains a unique Gift Voucher Code which your (lucky!) friend can redeem at any time – their access will become valid when …
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Our web team has been working hard to add extra features to the newspaper archive website. Highlighting Your Search Words in the Newspaper Article One of these new features is highlighting the first 10 occurrences of your search phrase within the article. So, for example, if your search is ’Charge of the Light Brigade‘, the words ’Charge‘, ’Light and ’Brigade‘ will be highlighted in light blue (small words like ’the‘ and ’a‘ are not included), thereby helping you to read …