The Bucks Advertiser & Aylesbury News was ‘the’ publication for Buckinghamshire. The fact that most issues are missing from British Newspaper Archive leaves an enormous gap in the historical record.

Searching the Bucks Advertiser & Aylesbury News (1860 – 1912) items for the year of publication (1860) are found. From Jan 1861 to Dec 1871 returns, ‘Sorry, no results were found for’. Publications are found for 1872, none for 1873 and resume for 1874. From Jan 1875 to Dec 1889 nothing is found. The year 1890 is blessed with a full complement of issues. From Jan 1891 to Dec 1896 again nothing is found. The year 1897 has some publications but from Jan 1898 to 1911 again nothing is found. The final year of publication, 1912, has the all the issues.
It is crucial for my research and completion of my book for all Bucks Advertiser’s issues to be copied to BNA’s files. Would you kindly oblige as the publication deadline is fast approaching.

The Bucks Advertiser & Aylesbury News from 1860 - 1912 is on microfilm. The BNA list this newspaper but only a few of the copies are found. Robert Gibbs, the historian, was the proprietor of the Bucks Advertiser and the archive is the poorer for it NOT being online.
BNA's OCR system failed to work for this publication. Around 2,500 should have been transcribed. The archive has circa 100 copies of the Bucks Advertiser online. Please BNA, put these newspapers online, Bucks history will be the richer.

Because of error in transcription to machine readable text the most important Buckinghamshire newspaper, The Bucks Advertiser & Aylesbury News (1860-1912), is not available for researchers to examine. Will the BNA add this title to the Archive as a matter of urgency?