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  • Nita Pearson commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The Leicester Mercury is essential for those of us interested in the history of our city and county. It contains real gems not found elsewhere.

  • Joe Hall commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Leicestershire is a county with a huge local history scene - we regularly host double the number of events of the next county during the Festival of Archaeology - and there is high demand for online access to digital records.

  • Chris Martin commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I think adding more additions of the Leicester Mercury would be hugely valuable. For much of the last century it has been the 'newspaper of record' for the whole county of Leicestershire - a county with a population now in excess of 1 million. It is extraordinary that the British Newspaper Archive has so limited a collection. It is also extraordinary that many smaller counties appear to be better served by the digitisation process.

  • Angelina commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I echo some of the other comments more recent copies of the paper would be a valuable resource to obtain information from

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    As Publicity Officer for the Leicestershire and Rutland Family History Society, I would definitely to see the digitalisation of more back copies of the Leicester Mercury. We regularly get requests to help researchers wanting to look at the paper from the 1960s onwards, but we can’t help.
    Although the newspaper is available at the Record Office, searching microfilm day on day, year on year can be very difficult and many researchers live overseas.
    Only this week we received an enquiry but couldn’t help as it relates to an event in 1960s.
    Not only are people looking for information on specific family members, but also streets, villages, events etc.
    So really do hope that the Leicester Mercury can be a Newspaper which can be digitalised to cover more recent years.

  • Anon commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Would be so valuable to have an online resource for the whole of Leicester community to access for family tree research as well as local history research.

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