More newspapers from Wales
We don't have a lot of newspapers from Wales, especially mid-Wales. We should add more.
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Peter Johnson commented
I have commented before about the gaps in the coverage of North Wales titles, particularly between 1900 and 1912 and post 1920, which has been ignored despite some of the titles existing in the British Library collection and have been microfilmed. The need doesn't decline because you ignore it. It won't go away.
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Sid Reilly commented
Please include future updates
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Peter Johnson commented
Cambrian News and North Wales Chronicle 20th C issues would be very useful
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georgina.gittins1 commented
The National Library of Wales has free online newspapers of Wales up until 1919, including some North Wales newspapers.
We also need NORTH WALES NEWSPAPERS AFTER 1919, especially the Wrexham area - you only have the Rhos Herald atm.
Need 1923 especially so that The Wales Women's Peace Petition to America can be researched in time for its Centenary. -
Peter Johnson commented
Cambrian News from 1913 onwards. North Wales Chronicle from 1901, North Wales Times from 1911 would fill in a huge gap and be so helpful
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Lana commented
Anything covering the later dates of Cardiff’s past would be preferable
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Grqham commented
Personally like to see the South Wales Echo and evening post published up until the 1980’s
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John Gibson commented
We seem to have suddenly got a flurry of Welsh titles, but they are all from the nineteenth century. Is there any chance of extending this coverage to the 20th centuery.
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Natalie commented
I would very much like to see these papers have extended coverage
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Anonymous commented
Please could you add 1911 to your existing collection of the South Wales Daily News? There is an article in the December 23rd 1911 edition about the funeral of a Welsh heroine, who was an ancestor of mine, and I would love to have access to this article.
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Anonymous commented
I have to travel to Cardiff to look up details of my great-uncle's death in 1918, would be good to be able to do it online.
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Mark commented
Have you tried https://newspapers.library.wales/ all are free
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Jacasta commented
Still severely limited in terms of coverage compared to Irish and Scottish papers, not sure why Cardiff and Swansea keep getting glanced over in favour of small Irish towns
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Tina commented
Please stop overlooking Welsh papers, we need attachments for the South Wales Echo
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Peter Johnson commented
Under review for five years and planned for nearly five - and all that has been done, so far as I can tell, is two years, 1910 and 1912, of the Cambrian News, and 1910 duplicated Welsh Newspapers Online so didn't really help much.
You really need to get a grip on this. -
Tristen Jones commented
How about the South Wales Echo
South Wales Evening Post
South Wales ArgusTo balance out the Irish monopoly on here
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Peter Johnson commented
The Welsh Newspapers Online site (now at https://newspapers.library.wales/) while useful, has spent all the funds allocated to it and still leaves lots of gaps in 20th century coverage.
(Yes, I realise that I'm responding to a comment more than four years old.) -
Peter Johnson commented
I have been an annual subscriber since the website started, with only 8-9 million pages. During that time, and the addition of more than 20 million pages, there has been almost no increase in the number of Welsh newspapers added or to the number of pages of existing newspapers.
Of the 44 Welsh newspapers currently available, only 10 of them have post-1900 pages and only one of them has pages after 1911. I said before, about three years ago, that anyone using this site would think that very little had happened in Wales after 1900, especially in the north.
If the objective is to digitise 40 million pages, as stated, and you have reached 30 million, isn't it time to add some more Welsh papers? Or are you going to leave them until the last 500,000?
In contrast, there are already well over 100 Irish newspapers - I gave up counting when I got to 100 and wasn't half way through the list - and more are added every week.
Your regional coverage should be spread more equally. -
Anonymous commented
The period 1900-1950 would be of great use to my current research as I have lots of family stories to follow up
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Rob George commented
As a regular user of FMP and its newspaper collection, I would like to comment on the 'untapped' resource at Newport Library. The library has bound volumes of the Monmouthshire Free Press and the South Wales Argus. The papers are a record of the Industrial Revolution and the decline of heavy industry in the C20! I feel they would have a national significance and as a retired teacher, would be a valuable asset to educational projects across the UK. What an addition they would make to your already amazing collection!
The National Library of Wales digitisation project of the Welsh newspapers does not cover these two papers. (One partially).
Would it be possible to consider this collection in your digitisation plans for the future?