British Newspaper Archive passes 35 million pages

The British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) has passed another milestone, wth more than 35 million pages now available of the target 40 million.

The following titles have been added over the last month:

Elgin Courant, and Morayshire Advertiser
1863-1905

Sporting Gazette
1862-1900

Hyde & Glossop Weekly News, and North Cheshire Herald
1876-1882

Bristol Times and Mirror
1871-1896, 1898-1899, 1908-1910

Tablet
1852-1854

Reading Evening Post
1987

Wells Journal
1868, 1870-1871, 1873-1876, 1878-1881, 1883, 1885-1888, 1899, 1901-1904, 1951-1966, 1970-1979

Banffshire Reporter
1869-1920

Port-Glasgow Express
1894-1959

Thanet Times
1987

North British Daily Mail
1849-1851, 1855-1856, 1862, 1864, 1866, 1868-1869, 1880-1881, 1884, 1886-1887, 1890, 1894

Sandwell Evening Mail
1992-1993

Newcastle Daily Chronicle
1888-1890, 1915

Hammersmith & Shepherds Bush Gazette
1955-1961, 1975-1981, 1987, 1990, 1997

Express and Echo
1869-1871, 1873-1876, 1878, 1880

Irvine Times
1879-1891

Harrow Leader
1986

Newbury Weekly News and General Advertiser
1867-1869, 1873-1875, 1877-1889, 1891-1906

Wishaw Press
1939-1955, 1973-1979, 1981-1984

National Register (London)
1810

Bray People
1998, 2003

Drogheda Argus and Leinster Journal
1987

Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser
1897

Enniscorthy Guardian
2003

Staines & Ashford News
1999

Amersham Advertiser
1999

Perthshire Advertiser
1947

Staffordshire Sentinel
1990

Perthshire Constitutional & Journal
1871, 1876, 1879-1881, 1883-1892

Fifeshire Journal
1833-1893

Highland News
1885-1886, 1888-1899, 1903-1912

Irvine Herald
1879, 1891

Huntly Express
1866, 1869, 1873, 1880

Eskdale and Liddesdale Advertiser
1879-1881, 1884, 1890-1891

Musselburgh News
1889-1941

Aberdeen Evening Express
1999

Aberdeen Press and Journal
1998-1999

Coatbridge Leader
1905-1956

Strathearn Herald
1893, 1895-1896

Arbroath Guide
1846, 1883, 1885, 1926

Blairgowrie Advertiser
1879-1880, 1885

Birmingham Daily Gazette
1919

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British Newspaper Archive passes 34 million records

The British Newspaper Archive (https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) has reached 34 million pages, of its target 40 million. 

The following collections have been added in the last 30 days:

Express (London)
1846-1854

Sun (London)
1801-1803, 1805-1835, 1837-1838, 1840, 1849, 1851-1871

Kensington Post
1989

Fishing Gazette
1892

Middlesex Independent
1894

Ealing Leader
1996

Lady's Own Paper
1847-1863

Hayes & Harlington Gazette
1986

Colored News
1855

Newcastle Daily Chronicle
1868, 1871, 1898

Cork Examiner
1912

Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser
1832-1833, 1835-1836, 1838-1856

Northern Daily Times
1853, 1856-1857, 1859-1861

North British Daily Mail
1852, 1858, 1870-1871, 1875, 1882, 1888, 1898, 1901

Aberdeen Press and Journal
1994-1996

Aberdeen Evening Express
1994-1996

East of Fife Record
1870-1917

West Lothian Courier
1892-1968, 1975-1976

North British Agriculturist
1860, 1871-1893

Irvine Herald
1968

Wishaw Press
1956-1972, 1980

Montrose Standard
1844, 1846-1959

Irvine Times
1892

Hawick Express
1915-1918

Irish Independent
1991

Eskdale and Liddesdale Advertiser
1852, 1892

Galloway News and Kirkcudbrightshire Advertiser
1860

Evening Herald (Dublin)
1902

Daily Review (Edinburgh)
1864, 1866-1867

Witness (Edinburgh)
1846

Chris

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British Newspaper Archive approaches 33 million pages

As the British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) approaches 33 million pages of content, these are the additions to the site over the last 30 days:

Bristol Times and Mirror
1897, 1900-1907, 1911

Witness (Edinburgh)
1840-1841, 1847, 1852, 1855-1856, 1858, 1860, 1862

The Queen
1887, 1889-1891, 1893-1896

Labour Leader
1894-1896, 1898-1919

Reading Evening Post
1989-1990

Women's Gazette & Weekly News
1888-1889

Football Post (Nottingham)
1973

Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser
1855

Harrow Observer
1895-1898, 1906-1921

Huddersfield Daily Examiner
1871, 1885, 1888, 1896-1897, 1905-1909

Express and Echo
1866-1868

Clarion
1891-1913, 1928-1932

Liverpool Daily Post
1877, 1911

Aberdeen Press and Journal
1983-1987

Forward (Glasgow)
1916-1919, 1921-1922

Calcutta Gazette
1784-1815

Aberdeen Evening Express
1985-1987

Lake's Falmouth Packet and Cornwall Advertiser
1912

Perthshire Advertiser
1885, 1946

Field
1853-1856, 1858, 1860, 1862-1863, 1865-1877, 1879-1881, 1884-1900, 1902-1911

John o' Groat Journal
1912

Oban Times, and Argyllshire Advertiser
1875

Hamilton Advertiser
1875, 1898-1899

Motherwell Times
1959

Liverpool Echo
1894-1896

Manchester Evening News
1891

Salisbury and Winchester Journal
1912

Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail
1959

Lichfield Mercury
1956, 1959-1963

Grantham Journal
1959

Sligo Champion
1931-1941, 1949, 1952, 1959-1963

Newcastle Journal
1880, 1883

Chelmsford Chronicle
1838

Norfolk Chronicle
1846

Royal Cornwall Gazette
1912

Strabane Chronicle
1904-1906, 1909-1911

Crawley News
1998

Harefield Gazette
1998-1999

Coventry Standard
1919

Pinner Observer
1998

Sandwell Evening Mail
1989

Kingston Informer
1998

Tablet
1865

Walsall Observer, and South Staffordshire Chronicle
1873-1878, 1880-1887, 1894, 1896, 1898-1899, 1901

Staffordshire Sentinel
1903-1910, 1918-1919

Newcastle Evening Chronicle
1894, 1913, 1919

The People
1946-1949

Newcastle Chronicle
1875-1896, 1899-1900

Surrey Advertiser
1909

Limerick Chronicle
1825

Chris

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Latest additions to the British Newspaper Archive

The following titles have been added to or updated on the British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) over the last 30 days:

Field
1853-1856, 1858, 1860, 1862-1863, 1865-1868, 1870-1877, 1879-1881, 1884-1900, 1902-1911

Strabane Chronicle
1899-1906, 1909-1911

Crawley News
1991, 1998-1999

Huddersfield Daily Examiner
1885, 1888, 1896-1897, 1905-1909

Harefield Gazette
1998-1999

Coventry Standard
1919

Pinner Observer
1998-1999

Sandwell Evening Mail
1989

Kingston Informer
1986-1987, 1994, 1998-1999

Tablet
1865

Liverpool Daily Post
1911

Walsall Observer, and South Staffordshire Chronicle
1873-1911, 1925-1933, 1958-1969

Staffordshire Sentinel
1903-1910, 1913-1919

Newcastle Evening Chronicle
1894, 1913, 1919

The People
1946-1949

Newcastle Chronicle
1875-1896, 1899-1900

Surrey Advertiser
1909

Limerick Chronicle
1825

Aberdeen Press and Journal
1980-1984

Harrow Leader
1998-1999

Ealing Leader
1998-1999

Hayes & Harlington Gazette
1998-1999

Acton Gazette
1871-1880, 1885, 1888-1892, 1894-1903, 1910-1917, 1921-1939

Amersham Advertiser
1998

Hammersmith & Shepherds Bush Gazette
1991

Dumfries and Galloway Standard
1874, 1884, 1887, 1891, 1894

Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough
1901-1905, 1907, 1910, 1912

Hamilton Advertiser
1889-1895, 1897, 1901, 1903-1904, 1906-1909

Kensington Post
1991, 1994-1997, 1999

Harrow Midweek
1979-1983

Nouvelle Chronique de Jersey
1889, 1896

Essex Guardian
1894-1897, 1899-1908

Northern Ensign and Weekly Gazette
1854, 1864, 1866, 1870-1871, 1879-1885, 1887, 1889-1892, 1895-1896, 1901, 1922-1926

Aberdeen Evening Express
1939-1943, 1945, 1980-1984

Middlesex Gazette
1889-1910, 1912-1913

Middlesex Independent
1883-1893, 1895

Western Mail
1913

Bristol Times and Mirror
1814, 1831-1832, 1835, 1837

Harrow Observer
1974

Bridgwater Journal
1989-1990

Volunteer Record & Shooting News
1884-1902

Thanet Times
1986

North Down Herald and County Down Independent
1939

Protestant Watchman and Lurgan Gazette
1874

Fishing Gazette
1895

Newcastle Journal
1879

Manchester Evening News
1888

Lichfield Mercury
1987

Chris

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British Newspaper Archive passes 32 million pages

The British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) has passed 32 million pages.

The following titles have been added in the last 30 days:

Sandwell Evening Mail
1986

Hammersmith & Shepherds Bush Gazette
1989, 1992, 1999

Mansfield & Sutton Recorder
1985-1987, 1990, 1992-1993, 1995, 1999

Reading Evening Post
1970, 1980-1981, 1985, 1991-1992, 1999

Sunday Independent (Dublin)
1959, 1974

New Ross Standard
1987

Middlesex County Times
1937

Rugby Advertiser
1897, 1912-1913

Kerryman
1992

Drogheda Independent
2003-2004

Irish Independent
1987, 1998

Football Post (Nottingham)
1950-1972, 1974-1979

Harrow Leader
1994-1997

Ealing Leader
1993-1995, 1997

Hayes & Harlington Gazette
1993-1997

Buckinghamshire Examiner
1981, 1983

Harefield Gazette
1991-1992, 1994-1997

Kingston Informer
1991-1992, 1995, 1997

Amersham Advertiser
1986, 1993-1997

Staines & Ashford News
1993-1998

Cheddar Valley Gazette
1957-1980

Tottenham and Edmonton Weekly Herald
1874, 1879, 1889, 1891, 1899-1912

Course of the Exchange
1825-1894, 1896-1908

Pinner Observer
1991, 1994, 1996-1997

Kington Times
1915-1959

Bridgwater Journal
1986-1988, 1991

Crawley News
1992-1993, 1995-1997

Evesham Standard & West Midland Observer
1888-1892, 1894-1951, 1953-1959

Protestant Watchman and Lurgan Gazette
1861-1867

Ulster Examiner and Northern Star
1868-1881

Chris

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British Newspaper Archive at 31 million pages

The British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) is at the point of reaching 31 million pages of its planned 40 million pages on the site.

Released in the last 30 days:

Tablet
1843-1851, 1855-1864, 1866-1885

Sunday Times
1823, 1825-1827, 1831, 1833, 1853, 1890-1912

Bolton Evening News
1897

South Wales Daily Post
1901

Portadown News
1859-1921

West Middlesex Gazette
1894-1895, 1898-1910, 1912-1941

Justice
1884-1925

Staffordshire Sentinel
1930-1938, 1940-1941, 1943-1950

Ealing Gazette and West Middlesex Observer
1898-1910, 1912-1923

Sunday Life
2000-2005

Hyde & Glossop Weekly News, and North Cheshire Herald
1875

Tottenham and Edmonton Weekly Herald
1877

Berks and Oxon Advertiser
1959

Dublin Intelligence
1723-1724

West Sussex County Times
1912

Sunday World (Dublin)
1895

Kensington Post
1918-1972, 1987-1988, 1990

Harefield Gazette
1989-1990

Orcadian
1854-1869, 1901-1912

Reading Evening Post
1993

Middlesex County Times
1939-1941, 1953-1954, 1957-1976, 1978, 1980

Amersham Advertiser
1991-1992

Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser
1880, 1883, 1886, 1890, 1892

Drogheda Argus and Leinster Journal
1961-1964

Orkney Herald, and Weekly Advertiser and Gazette for the Orkney & Zetland Islands
1888-1949

Enniscorthy Guardian
1986

Rugby Advertiser
1914

Cambridgeshire Times
1872-1873

Littlehampton Gazette
1939

Folkestone Express, Sandgate, Shorncliffe & Hythe Advertiser
1868-1894, 1901, 1903-1913, 1915-1924

Central Somerset Gazette
1862-1870, 1872-1887, 1889-1899, 1901-1911, 1913-1949, 1951-1981

Oxfordshire Telegraph
1858-1859

Sunday Independent (Dublin)
1998-2006

Evening Herald (Dublin)
1930

Chris

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Latest additions to the British Newspaper Archive

The British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) now has 30,690, 134 pages available. The following are the additions for the last 30 days:

Drogheda Argus and Leinster Journal
1961-1964

Middlesex County Times
1866-1868, 1871, 1883-1907, 1911-1926, 1931-1936, 1939-1941, 1953-1954, 1957-1969

Orkney Herald, and Weekly Advertiser and Gazette for the Orkney & Zetland Islands
1888-1949

Enniscorthy Guardian
1986

Sunday Life
1998-2002

Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser
1880, 1883, 1886, 1892

Rugby Advertiser
1914

Cambridgeshire Times
1872-1873

Littlehampton Gazette
1939

Folkestone Express, Sandgate, Shorncliffe & Hythe Advertiser
1868-1894, 1901, 1903-1913, 1915-1924

Central Somerset Gazette
1862-1870, 1872-1887, 1889-1899, 1901-1911, 1913-1949, 1951-1981

Oxfordshire Telegraph
1858-1859

Sunday Independent (Dublin)
1986-1990, 1992-2006

Evening Herald (Dublin)
1930

East Kent Gazette
1857-1887, 1889-1894, 1912-1930, 1946-1964

Buckinghamshire Examiner
1889-1895, 1897-1910, 1912-1941, 1955-1970, 1972-1978, 1980

Irish Independent
1914, 1925

Birmingham Daily Post
1965

South Wales Daily News
1910

Perthshire Advertiser
1907

Newcastle Journal
1995

Coventry Evening Telegraph
1935

Sunday Tribune
1986-1988, 1990-1992

Runcorn Guardian
1875-1890, 1908-1910, 1913-1919

Drogheda Independent
1895

Sunday World (Dublin)
1998-2004, 2006

Long Eaton Advertiser
1882-1883, 1887-1888, 1890, 1893-1896, 1899-1901, 1903, 1930-1942, 1955-1980

Kerryman
1993, 2006

Manchester Evening News
1947-1949

Lennox Herald
1986-1997

The People
1893, 1900-1902, 1951-1956, 1963-1976, 1980

Newport & Market Drayton Advertiser
1871

Yorkshire Evening Press
1911

Chris

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British Newspaper Archive approaches 30 million pages of content

The British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) is now reaching the three quarters of the way mark with its project, as it approaches 30 million pages of online content (as I write this it is currently at 29,905,890 pages).

This was the original announcement about the project from May 2010 (on my former blog at http://scottishancestry.blogspot.com/2010/05/mass-digitisation-of-historic-british.html):

British Library and Brightsolid partnership to digitise up to 40 million pages of historic newspapers

The British Library’s Chief Executive, Dame Lynne Brindley, will today announce a major new partnership between the Library and online publisher brightsolid, owner of online brands including findmypast.co.uk and Friends Reunited. The ten-year agreement will deliver the most significant mass digitisation of newspapers the UK has ever seen: up to 40 million historic pages from the national newspaper collection will be digitised, making large parts of this unparalleled resource available online for the first time.

Spanning three centuries and including 52,000 local, regional, national and international titles, the British Library holds one of the world’s finest collections of newspapers. Each year the Newspaper Library at Colindale is used by 30,000 researchers in subjects ranging from family history and genealogy to sports statistics, politics and industrial history. This vast resource is held mainly in hard copy and microfilm, necessitating a trip to the north London site for people wishing to use the collection.

The partnership between the British Library and brightsolid will enable the digitisation of a minimum of 4 million pages of newspapers over the first two years. Over the course of ten years, the agreement aims to deliver up to 40 million pages as the mass digitisation process becomes progressively more efficient and as in-copyright content is scanned following negotiation with rightsholders.


I think it is fair to say that the BNA has transformed family history research, and is by far one of the most significant digitisation projects of this century so far.

Just ten million pages to go!

Here are the additions for the last 30 days:

Carlisle Journal
1847, 1883, 1885, 1889, 1891-1892, 1894, 1896, 1904-1905, 1908-1912

Sunday World (Dublin)
1987-1993, 1995-1996

Drogheda Argus and Leinster Journal
1965-1986, 1988-2005

Perthshire Advertiser
1875-1884, 1886-1906, 1908-1913, 1920-1932, 1937-1938, 1986

New Ross Standard
1911-1914, 1916-1986, 2002-2005

Manchester Evening News
1946

Gorey Guardian
1994-2006

Bray People
1988-1997, 1999-2002, 2004-2005

Lichfield Mercury
1929-1931, 1942, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1971-1973, 1985-1986, 1988-1989, 1991

Cheshire Observer
1931-1938, 1946-1949, 1951-1979

Lennox Herald
1885-1886, 1888-1892

Wexford People
1986, 1994, 2005

Western Mail
1920, 1923, 1933-1935, 1938, 1946-1947, 1952, 1959

Kerryman
1986-1987, 2003-2005

Drogheda Independent
1986-1987, 2005

Belfast Telegraph
1979-1983

Sligo Champion
1912-1921

Lloyd's List
1890, 1892

Chris

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British Newspaper Archive passes 29 million pages

The British Newspaper Archive (https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) has now passed 29 million pages.

The following are the additions for the last month:

Enniscorthy Guardian
1889-1904, 1916-1917, 1921, 1987-2002, 2004-2005

The Bioscope
1909, 1911-1918, 1921, 1923

Evening Herald (Dublin)
1991

Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser
1865-1866, 1871, 1874, 1876, 1878, 1883-1885, 1887, 1895-1896

Tavistock Gazette
1857

Kerryman
1904-1912, 1988-1990, 1994-2000, 2002

Belfast Telegraph
1935, 1963-1972

Sunday Tribune
1993-2003, 2005

Heywood Advertiser
1856-1862, 1864, 1868-1874, 1876, 1878, 1880-1884, 1886-1888, 1890, 1892-1893, 1895-1896, 1898-1910, 1912-1920, 1974

Weekly Chronicle (London)
1848

Baldwin's London Weekly Journal
1821

Lady's Own Paper
1867

Sun & Central Press
1871

Eastern Daily Press
1892

Western Mail
1927-1932

Surrey Advertiser
1875, 1878-1888, 1890-1894, 1896-1897, 1899-1903, 1912-1913, 1929, 1931-1933

Wexford People
1994-1996, 1998-2004

Dublin Evening Telegraph
1907, 1923

Liverpool Echo
1881-1883, 1885, 1961

New Ross Standard
1889-1910, 1915, 1988-2001

Drogheda Independent
1999-2002

Lloyd's List
1898-1900, 1905

Perthshire Advertiser
1988-1996

South Wales Daily Post
1910

Lichfield Mercury
1967, 1969-1970, 1974-1979, 1981-1982, 1993-1999

Chris

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British Newspaper Archive reaches 27 million pages

The British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) has reached 27 million pages of searchable, digitised content, meaning that the site is now two thirds of the way towards its stated aim to publish forty million pages of content.

Content added in the last 30 days includes:

• Music Hall and Theatre Review - 1890, 1908-1909, 1912
• Scottish Referee - 1893, 1895-1896, 1899
• Wicklow People - 1912-1929, 1931-1976, 1986-2001
• Liverpool Echo - 1968, 1978, 1981-1984, 1986-1990
• Irish Independent - 1912-1913, 1915, 1989-1990, 1993-1997, 1999-2000
• Oxfordshire Weekly News - 1869-1895, 1898-1926
• Belfast Telegraph - 1913-1916, 1918-1920
• Evening Herald (Dublin) - 1897, 1899, 1901, 1907, 1925, 1951, 1986-1987, 1990, 1994-1995, 2001-2002
• Peeblesshire Advertiser - 1880-1882, 1887-1892
• Cirencester Times and Cotswold Advertiser - 1869
• Dover Telegraph and Cinque Ports General Advertiser - 1857
• Freeman's Journal - 1912, 1917-1918, 1920-1924

Chris

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Recent additions to the British Newspaper Archive

The following has been added to the British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) over the last 30 days:

Penrith Observer
25564 pages
1860-1878, 1880-1895, 1897-1900, 1902, 1908, 1938-1958

Lakes Chronicle and Reporter
10636 pages
1876-1881, 1883-1895, 1898-1910

The Referee
1248 pages
1878-1880

Newcastle Journal
37634 pages
1958-1959, 1961-1967

Music Hall and Theatre Review
11332 pages
1889, 1891-1894, 1897-1899, 1904-1907

English Lakes Visitor
11962 pages
1877-1888, 1890-1892, 1894-1895, 1897-1908, 1910

Tralee Chronicle
3972 pages
1871-1880

Dover Telegraph and Cinque Ports General Advertiser
8822 pages
1833-1850, 1852-1855

Cheltenham Examiner
31444 pages
1839-1913

Warrington Guardian
832 pages
1888

Cheltenham Journal and Gloucestershire Fashionable Weekly Gazette
10244 pages
1825, 1827-1868

Luton Reporter
19826 pages
1874-1924

Oxfordshire Telegraph
6796 pages
1860-1871, 1873, 1875-1894

Winsford & Middlewich Guardian
832 pages
1888

Cirencester Times and Cotswold Advertiser
4906 pages
1856-1868, 1870-1871

Stroud News and Gloucestershire Advertiser
18500 pages
1867-1880, 1883-1910

Bridgwater Mercury
424 pages
1876

Wigan Observer and District Advertiser
826 pages
1878

Sligo Champion
5638 pages
1871-1896

Hereford Journal
482 pages
1910

Macclesfield Courier and Herald, Congleton Gazette, Stockport Express, and Cheshire General Advertiser
478 pages
1911

Ballyshannon Herald
4100 pages
1832, 1834, 1837-1840, 1842-1850, 1864-1865, 1871-1873

County Advertiser & Herald for Staffordshire and Worcestershire
19900 pages
1856-1907

Warder and Dublin Weekly Mail
7088 pages
1845-1855, 1873-1877, 1890

Bournemouth Graphic
22168 pages
1902-1920, 1931-1937

Banner of Ulster
9450 pages
1842, 1847, 1851-1852, 1857-1869

Weekly Freeman's Journal
7016 pages
1864-1880

Worthing Gazette
36590 pages
1889-1897, 1899-1958

Eastern Morning News
6066 pages
1889, 1897, 1899

West Sussex Gazette
35668 pages
1853-1891, 1897, 1910, 1912-1958

West Sussex County Times
414 pages
1893

Leamington, Warwick, Kenilworth & District Daily Circular
1732 pages
1896, 1904

Eastern Daily Press
2486 pages
1897

Shields Daily News
3286 pages
1950

Good Morning
3688 pages
1943-1945

Crawley and District Observer
8120 pages
1939-1953

Christchurch Times
14570 pages
1858-1860, 1866, 1878-1911

Forres Elgin and Nairn Gazette, Northern Review and Advertiser
12674 pages
1844-1911

South Wales Daily Post
1240 pages
1898

Leicester Journal
14842 pages
1882-1914, 1916-1920

Glasgow Evening Citizen
1254 pages
1880

Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette
3480 pages
1929

Lloyd's List
4360 pages
1901

Clifton Society
128 pages , updated 25 days ago
1890

Bournemouth Guardian
15528 pages
1883-1891, 1897-1910, 1912-1921

Horsham, Petworth, Midhurst and Steyning Express
7596 pages
1863-1868, 1870-1871, 1873-1896, 1899-1902

Southern Times and Dorset County Herald
25626 pages
1852-1866, 1872-1886, 1890-1896, 1898-1899, 1902-1910

Crewe Guardian
14114 pages
1872-1873, 1877, 1880, 1882, 1885-1886, 1888-1891, 1896, 1899, 1902-1903, 1905-1906, 1910

Votes for Women
2082 pages
1907-1909, 1916

Vote
200 pages
1909

Irish Citizen
1676 pages
1912-1919

Chris

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British Newspaper Archive approaches 24 million pages

The British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) is on the point of reaching 24 million pages of content, with the site currently hosting 23,975,745 pages of content. The following titles and years of coverage have been added over the last 30 days:

Kentish Gazette
1874

Daily Mirror
1947-1963

North Star and Farmers' Chronicle
1895-1903, 1905-1911

Birmingham Daily Post
1973, 1975-1979

Congleton & Macclesfield Mercury, and Cheshire General Advertiser
1858-1869, 1871, 1885-1895

St. Neots Chronicle and Advertiser
1855-1886

Barking, East Ham & Ilford Advertiser, Upton Park and Dagenham Gazette
1911

Milngavie and Bearsden Herald
1958

Eastbourne Herald
1958

Morecambe Guardian
1958

Darlington & Stockton Times, Ripon & Richmond Chronicle
1911

Portadown Times
1958

Clitheroe Advertiser and Times
1958

Alcester Chronicle
1911

Chard and Ilminster News
1911

Denbighshire Free Press
1911

Shields Daily News
1958

Nottingham Journal
1811-1812, 1827-1831, 1834-1846, 1848-1850

Irish News and Belfast Morning News
1911

Eastbourne Gazette
1958

Rugby Advertiser
1958

Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard
1911

Skegness Standard
1958

Lowestoft Journal
1911

Catholic Standard
1958

Isle of Wight County Press and South of England Reporter
1911

Fraserburgh Herald and Northern Counties' Advertiser
1958

Montrose, Arbroath and Brechin review; and Forfar and Kincardineshire advertiser.
1958

Hampstead & Highgate Express
1911

Islington Gazette
1911

Coventry Standard
1873, 1875-1876, 1878, 1880-1888, 1890-1904

Northern Constitution
1911

Carrickfergus Advertiser
1911

Exmouth Journal
1911

Brechin Advertiser
1958

Coventry Evening Telegraph
1920-1921, 1924, 1955-1956, 1972-1979

Cornish & Devon Post
1911

Banffshire Journal and General Advertiser
1911

Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
1958

Shipley Times and Express
1958

Irish Independent
1911

Willesden Chronicle
1911

Eastern Daily Press
1911

Nelson Leader
1958

Kilburn Times
1911

Wharfedale & Airedale Observer
1911

Wicklow People
1911

Northern times and weekly journal for Sutherland and the North
1911

Ross-shire Journal
1911

Star Green 'un
1958

Worthing Herald
1958

Bognor Regis Observer
1958

West Sussex County Times
1874, 1877-1889, 1891-1892, 1958

West Somerset Free Press
1911

Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser
1911

Walsall Free Press and General Advertiser
1874

Chepstow Mercury, Volunteers' Gazette, Monmouthshire & South Wales Advertiser
1874

Kings County Chronicle
1874

Ballymena Observer
1958

Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette
1874

Peterborough Advertiser
1958

Londonderry Sentinel
1958

Belfast Telegraph
1911

Barnsley Chronicle, etc.
1911

Daily Telegraph & Courier (London)
1911

West Surrey Times
1874

Sussex Agricultural Express
1958

The Berwick Advertiser
1958

Penny Illustrated Paper
1874

Surrey Advertiser
1874

Biggleswade Chronicle
1958

Wexford Independent
1874

Cumberland Pacquet, and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser
1874

Newry Reporter
1911

Royal Cornwall Gazette
1911

John o' Groat Journal
1911

Hamilton Advertiser
1874

Birmingham Mail
1911

Motherwell Times
1958

Lake's Falmouth Packet and Cornwall Advertiser
1911

Croydon Guardian and Surrey County Gazette
1911

Cumberland and Westmorland Advertiser, and Penrith Literary Chronicle
1874

Freeman's Journal
1911

Worcester Journal
1911

Pearson's Weekly
1890-1911

Evesham Journal
1889

Clifton Society
1891-1892, 1894-1897, 1899-1916

Ally Sloper's Half Holiday
1885-1896

The Sportsman
1911

East Anglian Daily Times
1910

Shipping and Mercantile Gazette
1880-1881

Birmingham Daily Gazette
1926, 1931

Lloyd's List
1889, 1894, 1896-1897, 1904, 1906-1909

Northampton Chronicle and Echo
1881, 1896, 1899-1900, 1902-1906, 1908, 1910, 1918

Bristol Daily Post
1860-1864, 1867-1873, 1875

Clifton and Redland Free Press
1890-1895, 1898-1910, 1913-1931

West Middlesex Herald
1855-1858, 1860-1861, 1863-1870, 1890-1895

Reading Observer
1897-1898, 1900, 1903-1905, 1907-1909, 1912

Kinross-shire Advertiser.
1850-1852, 1879-1884, 1890, 1892, 1900-1918

Leicester Herald
1834, 1836

The Suffragette
1912-1918

Todmorden Advertiser and Hebden Bridge Newsletter
1877, 1896

Chris

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British Newspaper Archive reaches 23 million pages

The British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) has now passed 23 million pages of content. The following updates have been added in the last 30 days:

South Wales Daily Post
1902

Waterford Chronicle
1871-1875, 1889-1908, 1910

Coventry Evening Telegraph
1897, 1905, 1907, 1922-1923, 1925, 1927, 1930, 1932, 1936-1938, 1946-1954, 1960-1970

Sports Argus
1897-1911, 1922-1938, 1946-1957, 1959-1963, 1965-1979

Hereford Journal
1877-1878, 1889, 1891, 1893, 1900, 1902-1903, 1905, 1907

Coventry Herald
1808, 1820, 1906, 1908, 1914, 1917-1938

Aberdeen Press and Journal
1979

Bournemouth Daily Echo
1909-1910

Bolton Evening News
1900

Shetland Times
1908-1910

South Wales Daily News
1903-1905

Merthyr Times, and Dowlais Times, and Aberdare Echo
1898

Penarth Chronicle and Cogan Echo
1889

Cambridge Independent Press
1874

Ayr Advertiser, or, West Country Journal
1881-1882, 1885-1886, 1889-1890

Jedburgh Gazette
1871-1886, 1888-1909, 1911-1915, 1917, 1919-1946, 1951-1954, 1956

The Atlas
1853-1854

Todmorden Advertiser and Hebden Bridge Newsletter
1868

Melton Mowbray Mercury and Oakham and Uppingham News
1895-1896, 1901, 1903, 1910

Windsor and Eton Express
1872-1875, 1877-1910

Leominster News and North West Herefordshire & Radnorshire Advertiser
1885, 1897

Hampshire Telegraph
1913-1957

Wisbech Standard
1889

Hunts Post
1897

Oswestry Advertiser
1892

Pall Mall Gazette
1922-1923

Goole Times
1878

Isle of Wight County Press and South of England Reporter
1888

Irish News and Belfast Morning News
1892

John Bull
1833

Yarmouth Independent
1897

The Graphic
1869-1898, 1900-1901, 1903-1911, 1914-1932

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Recent additions to the British Newspaper Archive

There seems to have been a considerable slowdown in the rate of new material being uploaded to the British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) over the last month. The following are the additions from the last 30 days, mainly English titles:

Windsor and Eton Express
1881

The Graphic
1869-1898, 1900-1901, 1903-1911, 1914-1932

Coventry Evening Telegraph
1898, 1904, 1906, 1908-1913, 1919, 1926, 1928-1929, 1931, 1933-1934

Todmorden Advertiser and Hebden Bridge Newsletter
1862-1867, 1869, 1871, 1873-1876, 1878-1895, 1898-1910, 1913-1934

Melton Mowbray Mercury and Oakham and Uppingham News
1881-1894, 1898-1900, 1904-1909, 1911, 1913-1915

Surrey Gazette
1860-1865, 1867, 1871-1872, 1875, 1879

Leominster News and North West Herefordshire & Radnorshire Advertiser
1884, 1886-1896, 1898-1910

Isle of Wight Times
1862-1866, 1871, 1873-1874, 1876-1879, 1889, 1897, 1901-1913

Cambrian News
1881-1883, 1885-1889, 1891-1896, 1898-1909

Daily Herald
1938

Ross Gazette
1897, 1910

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British Newspaper Archive passes 22 milion pages

The British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) has passed the 22 million pages stage, out of a proposed 40 million pages to be digitised over 10 years.

Recent releases in the last 30 days:

Dublin Evening Mail
1882, 1897-1901, 1903-1906

Birmingham Daily Post
1954, 1956

Hants and Berks Gazette and Middlesex and Surrey Journal
1892-1902

The Stage
1885-1887, 1891-1894, 1896-1897, 1902-1909, 1913-1918, 1938, 1940-1941, 2001-2007

Darlington & Stockton Times, Ripon & Richmond Chronicle
1847-1848, 1850-1851, 1853-1854, 1863, 1877, 1880, 1889, 1894

Alcester Chronicle
1889

Rugby Advertiser
1890-1896, 1898-1899, 1901-1905, 1907-1910

Carrickfergus Advertiser
1884-1910

West Sussex County Times
1875, 1890, 1901-1911, 1913-1957

Thame Gazette
1857-1869, 1873, 1875, 1877, 1928

Aberdeen Press and Journal
1963-1967, 1969-1971, 1975

Dover Telegraph and Cinque Ports General Advertiser
1856, 1861

Aberdeen Evening Express
1958-1965, 1967-1971, 1975

Loughborough Monitor
1859-1867

Leigh Journal and Times
1877, 1879, 1898

Cardigan & Tivy-side Advertiser
1870, 1877, 1879

Winsford & Middlewich Guardian
1875-1887, 1889-1895, 1897-1910

Daily Herald
1911-1912, 1919-1922

Birmingham Daily Gazette
1901-1913, 1920-1925, 1927-1930, 1932-1938, 1946-1956

Barking, East Ham & Ilford Advertiser, Upton Park and Dagenham Gazette
1889-1909

Bognor Regis Observer
1890-1896, 1898-1899, 1901-1957

Londonderry Sentinel
1881-1882, 1911, 1926

Aberdeen Weekly Free Press
1872

Galloway Express
1872

Rochester, Chatham & Gillingham Journal
1908

Nottingham Journal
1910, 1953

Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald
1854-1872, 1875-1878, 1888, 1893-1897, 1899

The Atlas
1826-1852, 1855-1869

Denbighshire Free Press
1884-1895, 1898-1910

Catholic Standard
1950

Chard and Ilminster News
1875-1886, 1888-1910

Worthing Herald
1921-1957

Bolton Evening News
1879, 1883, 1896

Paisley & Renfrewshire Gazette
1875-1876, 1878-1908

Western Daily Mercury.
1895

Athletic News
1877-1878, 1900

Woolwich Gazette
1872, 1874, 1889-1890, 1893-1894, 1904-1910

Cornish Times
1863, 1872

Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard
1837-1874, 1876-1896, 1900-1910

Islington Gazette
1902-1904

Market Harborough Advertiser and Midland Mail
1923-1950

Daily Telegraph & Courier (London)
1894, 1896, 1899, 1903-1910

Shields Daily News
1897

Weston-super-Mare Gazette, and General Advertiser
1855-1868

Whitchurch Herald
1875, 1879, 1889, 1897-1898

Eastbourne Gazette
1862-1887, 1889-1896, 1898-1905

Portadown Times
1956-1957

Bucks Advertiser & Aylesbury News
1897

Northern Constitution
1908-1910

Morecambe Guardian
1929-1935, 1938-1940, 1946, 1948-1949, 1951-1953, 1955-1957

Gravesend Reporter, North Kent and South Essex Advertiser
1886

Hexham Courant
1864, 1879, 1889, 1897

Eastbourne Herald
1951-1957

Clitheroe Advertiser and Times
1933, 1936-1957

The Sportsman
1918-1919

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Latest British Newspaper Archive additions

The following newspapers have been added to the British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) over the last 30 days:

Irish Independent
1898, 1903-1908

Southern Echo
1891-1896, 1909-1910

Limerick Chronicle
1832-1868

Sheffield Daily Telegraph
1915, 1918-1932

Mid-Ulster Mail
1891-1892, 1894-1898, 1900-1909

Fulham Chronicle
1914-1918, 1939-1940, 1942, 1944-1945

Herts & Cambs Reporter & Royston Crow
1898

East Anglian Daily Times
1894, 1905

Torquay Times, and South Devon Advertiser
1869-1871, 1873-1892, 1894-1895, 1897-1910

Hampstead & Highgate Express
1888, 1900-1910

Knaresborough Post
1868-1878, 1880-1898, 1900-1905, 1912

Galloway Gazette
1891-1892, 1895, 1952

Forfar Dispatch
1912-1952

Kidderminster Times and Advertiser for Bewdley & Stourport
1874, 1900

Londonderry Sentinel
1885, 1925

Carluke and Lanark Gazette
1906-1913, 1915-1951, 1953

Buchan Observer and East Aberdeenshire Advertiser
1863-1917

Brechin Advertiser
1879-1898, 1925-1957

Northern Constitution
1877-1899

Southend Standard and Essex Weekly Advertiser
1873-1875, 1878, 1880-1896, 1898-1905, 1907-1909

Wharfedale & Airedale Observer
1880-1881, 1884-1885, 1888-1889, 1899-1907, 1909-1910

Kilburn Times
1876, 1881-1882, 1885, 1892, 1901-1909

Isle of Wight County Press and South of England Reporter
1884-1887, 1889, 1900-1902

Eastern Evening News
1882-1883, 1885, 1900-1904

Ilford Recorder
1905

Islington Gazette
1908-1910

Boston Guardian
1938

Northwich Guardian
1861-1879, 1882-1896, 1898-1910

Nottingham Journal
1893

Lancashire Evening Post
1953-1957

Shields Daily News
1875-1876, 1879

Brighton Gazette
1877, 1889

Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
1896-1902

Weston-super-Mare Gazette, and General Advertiser
1901-1902

Staffordshire Chronicle
1887-1892, 1894-1896

Yarmouth Independent
1895, 1938

Skegness Standard
1922

Wigan Observer and District Advertiser
1890, 1902-1910, 1912-1918

Rothesay Chronicle
1875-1877, 1879-1882, 1884-1892

Glasgow Evening Post
1884, 1892-1893, 1895

Catholic Standard
1933-1936, 1938-1949, 1951-1957

Kentish Mercury
1872-1884, 1898-1910

Montrose, Arbroath and Brechin review; and Forfar and Kincardineshire advertiser.
1935-1951, 1953-1957

Ballymena Observer
1951-1957

Watford Observer
1879-1886, 1898-1900

Irish Society (Dublin)
1919

Nelson Leader
1929, 1931-1937, 1940-1949, 1951, 1953-1957

Yarmouth Mercury
1880

Hackney and Kingsland Gazette
1902-1909

Bradford Daily Telegraph
1878, 1897

Hexham Courant
1877

(Source: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/recently-added/30days)

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PRONI provides on site access to FindmyPast and BNA

The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (www.nidirect.gov.uk/proni)has announced that it is now providing access to both FindmyPast (www.findmypast.co.uk) and the British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) at its facility in Belfast.

The following is the announcement made via Facebook:

Find My Past records now available at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) search room at Titanic Quarter..

PRONI is pleased to announce the acquisition of an annual subscription to the FindMyPast online resources. The records now available to PRONI cover not only Ireland and the UK but also contain global information. The records available on the website cover centuries of information and include,

• Birth, Marriage, Death and Parish Registers
• Census, Land and Surveys
• Churches and Religion
• Directories and Social History
• Education and Work
• Institutions and Organisations
• Military, armed Forces and Conflict
• Travel and Migration
• 1939 Register (England and Wales)

In addition to FindMyPast PRONI has also acquired access to the British Newspaper Archive.

(With thanks to PRONI via Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/publicrecordofficeni/)

Chris

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British Newspaper Archive approaches half way point

Congratulations to the British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) as it approaches its halfway stage as a project, having almost reached 20 million pages of newspaper content (19,947,210 pages at time of writing), out of a proposed 40 million pages over a ten year period.

The following collections and years have been added over the last seven days (including a potentially useful Londonderry Sentinel for my research!):


Roscommon Messenger
1910, 1915-1919

Glasgow Evening Citizen
1867, 1869, 1882, 1884, 1887-1888, 1892

Oswestry Advertiser
1855, 1870

Londonderry Sentinel
1862-1868, 1875, 1883, 1893, 1895-1899, 1901-1907, 1909, 1930-1940

Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail
1900-1909, 1911-1919

Norfolk News
1871-1897, 1899-1910

Cornish Times
1860, 1877

Oxford Times
1888, 1890, 1892, 1894

The People
1918

Sunday Mirror
1914

West Somerset Free Press
1872

Weston-super-Mare Gazette, and General Advertiser
1878-1886, 1888-1896, 1898-1900, 1903-1907

Weston Mercury
1885-1896, 1899-1909

Lake's Falmouth Packet and Cornwall Advertiser
1873-1910

Cricket and Football Field
1910

Isle of Wight Observer
1888, 1901-1907, 1910-1919

Eastern Morning News
1886, 1888

Boston Guardian
1930-1936

Mayo Constitution
1872

Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser
1902-1910

Fraserburgh Herald and Northern Counties' Advertiser
1893-1936, 1938-1944, 1946-1949, 1951-1957

Pateley Bridge & Nidderdale Herald
1883-1888, 1890-1894, 1896, 1898, 1900-1904

Isle of Wight County Press and South of England Reporter
1903-1910

Annandale Observer and Advertiser
1873, 1886, 1893, 1895

Wiltshire Times and Trowbridge Advertiser
1883-1888, 1890-1893

Barnet Press
1897

Chris

UPDATE: And we're now there!

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New British Newspaper Archive front page

The British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) website has changed its front page design yet again. It now looks like this on a PC:

And this is how it appears now on a tablet:

The BNA has attempted to explain this new layout at http://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2017/05/25/our-new-look/.

I have no idea if this was intended to be a better interface for those accessing the site on a PC or from the use of a tablet, but users on both platforms now have much more scrolling to do to find other more useful features, such as recent additions, located well to the bottom and off screen.

I suppose it creates employment...!

Chris

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British Newspaper Archive passes 18 million pages

The British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) is inching closer towards the halfway point of its project, having now passed 18 million pages online.

The latest additions include many Scottish titles:

West Somerset Free Press
1886, 1894, 1897-1902, 1907-1909

Greenock Telegraph and Clyde Shipping Gazette
1872-1875, 1885, 1888-1890, 1899-1902, 1904-1909

Linlithgowshire Gazette
1904-1918, 1921-1929, 1931-1934, 1946-1950

Northern times and weekly journal for Sutherland and the North
1907-1910

Ross-shire Journal
1894

Inverness Courier
1885, 1902-1909

Royal Cornwall Gazette
1908-1909

Irish Times
1870, 1873

Oxford Times
1889

Durham County Advertiser
1876, 1893-1896, 1898-1904

Thetford & Watton Times and People's Weekly Journal.
1933

Haddingtonshire Courier
1886-1888

Stonehaven Journal
1912-1917

Fife Free Press, & Kirkcaldy Guardian
1956

Driffield Times
1939-1944

Sporting Life
1901-1904, 1907-1909

Bolton Evening News
1877, 1910

York Herald
1882

Athletic News
1903-1904, 1906

Wexford Independent
1873

Chris

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