British Newspaper Archive additions for April

The British Newspaper Archive and sister database FindMyPast now has a total of 31,675,134 pages online (31,216,068 last month). 99 papers (35 last month) had pages added in the past month. Dates range from 1820 to 1998, mostly 20th century with an unusual prevalence of single year additions — for 1872 (17 titles), 1912 (34 titles) and 1959 (19 titles)! There were 17 new titles, mostly from the London area and Ireland.

Major additions, with more than 10,000 pages, were:

TITLE	DATE RANGE	PAGES
Crawley News	1992-1993, 1995, 1997	17196
Ealing Leader	1986-1992	26504
Evesham Standard & West Midland Observer	1888-1892, 1894-1903, 1929-1951, 1953-1959	27762
Hammersmith & Shepherds Bush Gazette	1985-1986, 1988-1989, 1993-1996, 1998	31422
Harrow Observer	1921, 1945-1962, 1966-1973, 1975-1979	39580
Hayes & Harlington Gazette	1987-1992, 1994, 1997	27968
Mansfield & Sutton Recorder	1985-1988, 1993-1998	20888
North Down Herald and County Down Independent	1898-1929, 1931-1938	14994
Reading Evening Post	1965-1975, 1977-1979, 1986	85450
Staffordshire Sentinel	1920-1929, 1942	24874
Staines & Ashford News	1986, 1992, 1996, 1998	13112
Thanet Times	1976, 1978-1980, 1988-1989	11452
Ulster Examiner and Northern Star	1868-1881	12512