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7.5 million newspaper pages now online
The British Newspaper Archive added over 200,000 pages in February, bringing the current grand total to over 7.5 million. There’s still plenty more to be scanned, so we’ve already started chasing the...
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Behind the scenes: the newspaper scanning team
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...
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Wartime St George’s Day advert
St George’s Day and the anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth both fall on 23 April. ‘There will be justice and victory’ This patriotic advert from Ford was published in The Yorkshire Post and Leeds...
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8 million newspaper pages are now fully searchable
We’re thrilled to announce that you can now explore 8 million historic newspaper pages online. That’s double the number that you could search when The British Newspaper Archive launched in November...
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Local newspapers, football match reports and the 1908 FA Charity Shield
Last year, we donated 100 subscriptions to Wikipedia’s volunteer editors to help expand public information about historical topics. Brian Chapman has worked with Wikipedia for over five years and made...
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Just a traditional Christmas
Tradition is inescapable at this time of year. Whether you are retreading the paths of your childhood on a visit home with nostalgia and memory driving your actions or you are building new traditions...
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Apprentice saves drowning man: A curious trend in the newspaper archive
Sometimes a search through the archive turns up some baffling search results. In this case, it was the incredible regularity of instances where apprentices have been heralded for their bravery in...
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