Wednesday, December 7, 2011

British Library scans 18th and 19th-Century newspapers

Four million pages of newspapers from the 18th and 19th centuries have been made available online by the British Library.
The public will now be able to scan the content of 200 titles from around Britain and Ireland. These will include historic events such as the wedding of Victoria and Albert and the rise of the railways.
The archive is free to search, but there is a charge for accessing the pages themselves. Included in the project are pages from the Aberdeen Journal, Belfast Newsletter, Western Mail and Manchester Evening News.
A team has spent a year at the British Library's newspaper library at Colindale, north London, digitising up to 8,000 pages a day. They expect to scan up to 40 million pages over the next 10 years.

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