Sunday 5 November 2023

British Newspaper Archive approaches 72 million pages

The British Newspaper Archive is approaching 72 million pages of content (it's at 71,932,849 pages as I write), and remarkably this month, most of the new content added over the last 30 days is for Scotland and Ireland, and specifically Northern Ireland:

Scotland

Campbeltown Courier
1876-1879, 1893-1950

Edinburgh Evening News
1945, 1986-1991

Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser
1990-1992

Stornoway Gazette and West Coast Advertiser
1946-1947, 1954-1966

Dumfries and Galloway Standard
1872


Northern Ireland

Mid-Ulster Mail
1922, 1926, 1938, 1941, 1943, 1949, 1952-1986, 1990, 1996-1998

Ulster Star
1957-1983

Belfast News-Letter
1977-1978, 1988-1989, 1991, 1993-1994

Larne Times
1900, 1925, 1956-1984, 1993

Portadown News
1956-1982

Protestant Vanguard
1935-1947

Derry Journal
1975-1977, 1989-1990, 1992

Lurgan Mail
1897-1914, 1916-1925, 1927-1984, 1989, 1993

Chris

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