Newspapers we should add next
Tell us what publications would be of most use to you. You can be as general (Victorian cycling magazines) or specific (South Wales Argus) as you wish! We take on board all of your suggestions but are bound by copyright restrictions and our agreements with publishers, these form the boundaries of what we may publish online.
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Add the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald
So useful for Scottish researchers, covers all of Ayrshire and that's an area that needs much more coverage!
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AdminThe British Newspaper Archive
(Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive)
responded
Dear Readers
if you have not visited the website in a while we are delighted to let you know that this title is now available on the website
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/ardrossan-and-saltcoats-heraldHappy Reading
Team BNA
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There are no titles I can find from the religious press
The religious press is not represented in this archive. Are such papers outside the scope of this project?These would be of particular interest for those researching family history. Several titles immediately spring to mind…The Jewish Chronicle, The Catholic Herald, The Church Times…
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The Era
The remaining copies of The Era weekly theatre newspaper from 1900 onwards
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Dunfermline Press material from 1865 onwards
Liam Kelly from your Support Team informed me that you were not including Dunfermline Press material from 1865 onwards. Liam did not give a reason so I contacted Mr Harris, the current editor of the DP. He said that the copies of the paper are all held by the British Library and couldn't see any reason why they could not be included. For local people in the West of Fife, the Dunfermline Press is a main source of local history. I have frequently used the microfiche facility in the Carnegie Library but have found this difficult to use due to…
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AdminThe British Newspaper Archive
(Admin, The British Newspaper Archive)
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The Dunfermline Press becomes Dunfermline Saturday Press around this time period. We have added content for both titles based on what material is available at the British Library.
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Sheffield Daily Independent
This paper published photographs of soldiers wounded in WW1 and so is particularly topical at the present time. For a number of families it will be the only source of photographs of their ancestors.
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North London Press
North London Press: the famous radical newspaper edited by Ernest Parke which played a key role in exposing the Cleveland Street Scandal. Constantly mined by scholars for quotes.
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Nottingham Recorder
Was published three times a week thoughtout Nottingham in the 80s-90s
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Sunday Mirror
Please could you upload the Sunday Mirror in the 1960s and 1970s?
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Bucks Examiner
This is a newspaper which was printed and published in South Buckinghamshire for over a century.
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The Buchan Observer
The Buchan Observer - newspaper for the Peterhead and Fraserburgh areas of north-east of Scotland which ran from 1863-2003 - would be welcome inclusion in your database.
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The Witness (Edinburgh)
A key newspaper in mid-nineteenth century Scotland was The Witness, published in Edinburgh from 1840 until 1864 and edited for much of that time by Hugh Miller, a towering figure in the Scotland of that era. The Witness, very much the voice of the then newly launched and hugely influential Free Church of Scotland, contains all sorts of valuable insights into social, cultural, political and ecclesiastical developments in early Victorian Scotland.
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Herts and Essex Observer
Please add the Herts & Essex Observer. Recently the WW1 volumes have become rather damaged, at least the locally kept copies. I fear that if nothing is done they will eventually become useless.
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Middlesbrough Herald and Post
Weekly paper for Teeside area
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The Clarion
Robert Blatchford's socialist weekly newspaper. It became the most successful socialist weekly newspaper of its kind, with the highest circulation and had the longest run. It was published 1891-1934. The Clarion movement - including the Clarion cycling clubs and choirs grew out if it.
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Nottingham Journal
This newspaper was the main (Tory) rival of the (Whig) Nottingham Review newspaper & is an important regional newspaper in the Luddite period (1811-1817)
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Burton Observer and Chronicle
Burton Observer
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Kilburn Times
There doesn't seem to be much coverage of London newspapers.
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Shepherds Bush Gazette
1976-1984
This part of West London could well do with seeing additional papers to cover the whole region this or the Hammersmith/Chelsea Chronicle, Chelsea News were all good papers17 votes -
West Somerset Free Press
It would be great to have the West Somerset Free Press added, very little coverage of this remote part of the country at present.
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Aris's Birmingham Gazette pre 1840
There are Georgian newspapers which covered Birmingham pre 1837. Arris's Gazette readily springs to mind, but there were others. It would be great to read these online. Can you help, please given the amount of interest in Birmingham history?
14 votes
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