10 million pages now searchable at The British
Newspaper Archive
The British Newspaper Archive (
www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk)
hit a major digitisation milestone this month: it’s added its 10 millionth
historic newspaper page.
The website launched with 4 million pages in November 2011,
so you’ll now find 150% more to explore. If you’ve not used the collection for
a while, it’s definitely time to come back and take another look.
Much more to search and a great-value subscription
It’s not just The British Newspaper Archive’s coverage that
has improved in the last few years. Back in 2011, a 30 day package was £29.95.
Today, a 1 month subscription is just £9.95.
A subscription will give you access to the whole collection
of historic newspapers and you can keep the pages you view forever by saving
them to your computer or printing them out.
Thousands of pages are digitised every week and some
fantastic content has been added in the last few months. Here are just some of
the highlights:
1)
The Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror
Copies of the Daily Mirror and Sunday
Mirror from 1914-1918 are now available to search online. These national
newspapers provide fascinating daily news, photographs and illustrations from
World War One.
2)
58 new Irish newspapers
The collection of newspapers from Northern
Ireland and the Republic of Ireland has grown substantially in the last few months.
At launch, seven newspaper titles were available, but you can now search a
total of 65.
3)
Newspapers from World War Two
More than 350,000 pages from 1939-1945 are
currently available to search at The British Newspaper Archive. 60 newspaper
titles are already online, including the Aberdeen Weekly Journal, Lancashire
Evening Post and Kent & Sussex Courier.
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