British Newspaper Archives additions for December

The British Newspaper Archive now has a total of 35,444,217 pages online (35,052,301 last month). 47 papers (47 last month) had pages added in the past month. There were 21 (10) new titles. Dates ranged from 1842 to 1984.

A year ago there were 29,480,604 pages online, 23,319,767 pages a year earlier and 17,567,270 the year before that.  At the present rate, the 40 million page project target would be reached before the end of the year, likely in October.

The 11 newspapers with more than 10,000 pages added during the month are:

TITLE	DATE RANGE
Fishing Gazette	1877-1879, 1882-1887, 1899-1900
Heywood Advertiser	1855, 1865-1867, 1885, 1894, 1897, 1960-1973
Leven Advertiser & Wemyss Gazette	1897-1924, 1928-1939
Mid-Lothian Journal	1884-1931
Midlothian Advertiser	1906-1949
Rochdale Observer	1871-1896, 1898-1899, 1910
Smethwick Telephone	1884-1888, 1890-1896, 1898-1909, 1911-1931
Sport (Dublin)	1897-1924, 1926-1928, 1930-1931
Stirling Observer	1871, 1874-1877, 1879-1892
Truth	1904-1905, 1908-1909, 1911-1924
Western Evening Herald	1895, 1900-1920, 1922-1924