Illustrated London News Ltd (ILN) has launched a website featuring 1914-1918 archive material from the Illustrated London News, the world’s first illustrated magazine, and seven other titles in its collection.
ILN was awarded £96,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) in April 2014 to create a free-to-access website, which will host the digitised wartime magazine pages of the magazine archives and rare pictorial material.
The project means that for the first time in 100 years, the public will be able to browse the wartime pages of The Illustrated London News and its sister titles; discover paintings, illustrations and sketches by war artists; and read articles, many of which have not been seen since they were first published.
The first-phase website includes the digitised pages from the Illustrated London News 1914-1918; a wealth of editorial features providing rich context for the source material; a timeline; a range of topical insights from "Animals and War" and "Trench Life" to "Sport and the War"; and a blog written by young historians appointed for the project.
In the coming months, 70,000 digitised pages of ILN’s sister publications, including The Illustrated War News, The Sphere, The Sketch, The Tatler, The Bystander, The Graphic and The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News will be added to the website.
Browse the Illustrated London News First World War Online Archive at http://www.illustratedfirstworldwar.com/
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Thanks awfully for this John. I have spent considerable time making prints from the News of Vimy Ridge on behalf of a chum whose father fought there. And I've also prepared pics of other locations where various of my family members were in the battles, for their descendants. Cheers.
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