Saturday 16 May 2020

Latest additions to the British Newspaper Archive

It looks like the effort to add new material to the British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) might have ground to an understandable halt for the time being, with no new content added in the last 7 days, but the following papers have been added in the last month:

Colonies and India
1875-1884

Truth
1878, 1882-1884, 1886-1893, 1898-1899

Munster News
1851-1871, 1873-1889, 1910-1915, 1919, 1922, 1925-1927, 1930

Home News for India, China and the Colonies
1866-1870, 1889-1896

Dundee Courier
1987, 1996

Sunday World (Dublin)
1997, 2005

Perthshire Constitutional & Journal
1870

Irvine Herald
1969-1970

Penrith Observer
1904

Bombay Gazette
1813-1814, 1816-1822, 1829-1833, 1835, 1837-1838, 1841, 1851-1856, 1858, 1860-1867

Sport (Dublin)
1881-1884, 1886, 1890, 1892

West Bridgford Advertiser
1916-1918, 1920-1921

Meath Herald and Cavan Advertiser
1888

Beds and Herts Pictorial
1954, 1957-1958


At present, the project stands just short of an impressive 37 million pages of content, at 36,964,272 pages.


Chris

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