British Newspaper Archive To Be Launched Online

(via Resourceshelf) “British Newspapers 1800 – 1900″ is a £2m project which will digitize more than one million pages of fully searchable texts and associated images from out-of-copyright 19th century newspapers from the British Library.

The vast majority of newspapers in the British Library collections remain in print form, and are only accessible to researchers who can visit the Newspaper Library in Colindale, North London. The new website resource will provide a freely available resource for further and higher education…

It is anticipated that national papers to be digitized will include The Morning Chronicle (a reformist newspaper with a young Charles Dickens as a reporter and W M Thackeray as art critic) and the Morning Post (who engaged writers such as Samuel Coleridge and William Wordsworth). Regional and local papers will be drawn from all regions of the UK.

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