Thursday 4 August 2022

British Newspaper Archive passes 55 million pages

The British Newspaper Archives (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) has just passed 55 million pages, with some 55,034,763 pages available at the time of writing:

Beyond the additions for England and Wales (listed at www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/recently-added/30days) there has been very little additional content for Scotland and Ireland added over the last 30 days:

Scotland

Edinburgh Evening News
1951, 1954, 1956

Irvine Herald
1994

Strathearn Herald
1993

Galloway News and Kirkcudbrightshire Advertiser
1993


Ireland

Munster Tribune
1958, 1960

East Galway Democrat
1920, 1937


It is interesting, however, to see the increase in overseas content becoming available:


Overseas

Civil & Military Gazette (Lahore)
1939-1940

Barbados Herald
1879-1896

St. Kitts Daily Express
1906, 1909-1915

Australian Spiritualist
1881

Antigua Standard
1883-1890

Colonial Standard and Jamaica Despatch
1865, 1867, 1870, 1872, 1874, 1879

Mirror (Trinidad & Tobago)
1899-1900, 1912-1913, 1916

Voice of St. Lucia
1889

Barbados Agricultural Reporter
1896, 1911-1922

Full details at the website!

Chris

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