British Library to digitalise newspaper archive

Posted on April 20, 2011 by


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8690919.stm

The British Library has announced a 10-year project to make 40m pages from its newspaper archive available online.  The record of more than 300 years of journalism, including coverage of the Crimean and Boer Wars, will be put on the web by the publisher BrightSolid. 

BrightSolid said it aims to complete the digitisation of more than 4m pages within the first two years….

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Member of the Guild of One Name Studies researching the name CUMPSTON and its variants. You can see my website at www.cumpston.org.uk I have a new study of the name LAXEN with its own blog at https://laxenresearch.wordpress.com/ and a further research blog which is not registered as a one name study of KNAGGS of Flamborough https://knaggsresearch.wordpress.com/
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