The British Newspaper Archive – Online Now

By Will Carleton January 6, 2012 Will Carleton

The say “The British Newspaper Archive is a partnership between the British Library and brightsolid online publishing to digitise up to 40 million newspaper pages from the British Library’s vast collection over the next 10 years”. We have scanned millions of pages of historical newspapers and made them available online for the first time ever.Search millions of articles by keyword, name, location, date or title and watch your results appear in an instant. Explore here: British Newspaper Archive

Why is it important?

At the turn of the 20th century, there was vast growth in press agencies and photographers due to the massive thirst for images in newspapers. Many are still in existence but others have been sold, absorbed or simply disappeared, effectively leaving gaps in the history of this industry… many agency offices were bombed during the WWII London Blitz resulting negative and print files being water damage from the hoses quenching the fires …most archives were in the building basements.

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