The British Newspaper Archive publishes a list of additions in the past 30 days as well as a complete list of contents. Here's the list of recent additions broken down by those of a decade and more, and less than a decade, adding an indication in brackets of the complete range available:
Coventry Herald (1824 -) 1875 - 1892
Dover Express 1862 - 1874 (-1949)
Elgin Courant, and Morayshire Advertiser (1839 -) 1840 - 1862
Stamford Mercury 1717 - 1734 (-1895)
Other additions are:
Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald 1857 - 1859 (-1903)
Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette 1822 (-1890)
Dundee Advertiser (1861-) 1865 - 1866
Dundee Courier (1844-) 1901 - 1908
Gloucester Journal 1940 (-1849)
Hastings and St Leonards Observer 1867 - 1868 (-1910)
Morpeth Herald (1854-) 1947 - 1948
Police Gazette 1775 -1775
Sheffield Evening Telegraph (1887-) 1904
Shields Daily Gazette 1856 (-1904)
Staffordshire Advertiser 1800 (-1839)
Staffordshire Gazette and County Standard (1839-) 1842
Surrey Mirror (1891-) 1906 - 1914
4908 pages per day were added in August. At that rate it will take 13.6 years to reach the project target of 30 million pages.
Will access to this database be available at the BIFHSGO conference?
ReplyDeleteGail: I think I heard that everyone who registers will get a voucher for some free viewing - searching is free anyway.
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