31 March 2021

British Newspaper Archive March Additions

The British Newspaper Archive added 104,078 pages in the last 7 days for a total of 41,992,236 pages online (41,596,848 last month). 

This month 51 papers had pages added (78 in the previous month). There were 22 (33) new titles. Dates range from 1805 to 1979.

Those with more than 10,000 pages added were:

TITLEDATE RANGE
Reading Standard1891-1895, 1897-1911, 1913-1961
The News (London)1805, 1807, 1809-1835
Herts and Essex Observer1939-1979
Alliance News1865, 1877-1883, 1885-1889
Belfast Weekly Telegraph1873-1893, 1895-1922
Evening Irish Times1880-1895
Bassett's Chronicle1863-1884
General Advertiser for Dublin, and all Ireland1837-1841, 1846-1852, 1856-1866, 1874, 1885, 1897-1923
Formby Times1895, 1900-1906, 1908-1909, 1911, 1919-1922, 1930, 1933-1939, 1943-1951, 1967-1974
Neath Guardian1927-1964

To date the total number of issues by country is:

CountryIssues
England3107375
Scotland607159
Republic of Ireland487933
Northern Ireland246790
Wales135599
There are also issues for India, New Zealand, Pakistan, Canada, Jersey, Jamaica, Guernsey, Saint Kitts and Nevis, China. Antigua, Isle of Man, Barbados, Belize, and Dominica.

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