British Newspaper Archives additions for December

The British Newspaper Archive now has a total of 29,480,604 pages online (28,935,426 last month.)  26 papers (23 last month) had pages added in the past month.

A year ago there were 23,319,767 pages, 17,567,270 pages a year earlier. At the present rate the 40 million page project target would be reached in August 2020, a slight advance on a year ago.

Three quarters of the major additions in December, titles with more than 10,000 pages, were Irish titles from the 20th century as tabulated below.

TITLE	PAGES	DATE RANGE
Drogheda Argus and Leinster Journal	81,334	1965-1969, 1971-1986, 1988-2005
Western Mail	58,830	1912, 1919-1923, 1933-1938, 1946-1947, 1952, 1959
Kerryman	15,034	1986-1987, 1991, 2003-2005
Belfast Telegraph	75,220	1973-1983
Evening Herald (Dublin)	80,994	1991, 1993, 1999-2000
Newcastle Evening Chronicle	29,208	1885-1892, 1895-1896, 1899-1908
Irish Independent	87,432	1992, 2001, 2007, 2009
Cheshire Observer	15,010	1901-1913, 1919-1930
Sunday Tribune	11,386	1989, 2004
The Bioscope	24,424	1919-1922, 1924
Enniscorthy Guardian	19,986	1890, 2001-2002, 2004-2005