Website improvements
30 results found
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The newspapers you already claim to have on your site
Such misleading information your system has about what dates are covered.
It says you have Cambridge Independent Press 1839 - 1950, BUT YOU DO NOT. Only the odd year after 1900.
Again, Cambridge Daily News 1889 - 1994 but not all years.
It is astoundingly annoying to realise that the reason I cannot find an item is that you are missing those years. Especially when I found so much on a free weekend at newspapers.com!
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Ability to Clip Articles
Ability to clip articles as opposed to downloading the page in its entirety without any boundaries for the information you're actually interested in preserving. Think Newspapers.com. For the price of admission the feature is sorely needed.
2 votes -
Please put Newspaper title in downloaded filename
Currnently PDF files downloaded are in the form of BL0000564193810312510011.pdf - can the first ID be replaced with the newspaper title, please? e.g. BLDundeeCourier19381031251_0011.pdf - there is currently no way to link an image to a newspaper without manually viewing the image.
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BNA Library Access at Home
During the current lockdown, many public libraries that offer Ancestry and Find My Past but only in library buildings (which are now closed) are offering the same service to library members in their homes. You just have to log in to your library account, and then enter the username and password you are given.
How about the BNA doing the same thing?3 votes -
Download a full newspaper
Could you make it possible to download a complete edition of a newspaper in one go rather than having to download each individual page?
5 votes -
Save a single article
I have been reading for a couple of years that you hope to make it possible to save a single article instead of a whole page but I haven’t seen any progress in providing this, are you actually going to provide this option? it is why I let my subscription lapse, I would rejoin if this was sorted.
14 votes -
academic citations
adding a citation button to help with citing your amazing newspaper
12 votes -
Search for a phrase is often ignored
When I search for a phrase, for example "W. Hunter" to get only hits for "W. Hunter" it is very annoying that I get endless hits for just "W." Can the search engine not be taught to ONLY look for "W. Hunter" ?
6 votes -
Exact searching
Because words like "and", "of" etc. seem to be used as operators, I often can't use them in the way I'd like. For example, I want to search for the EXACT phrase "The Horse and Hounds". At the moment, I can't see how to do it.
I would like to be able to search for an EXACT phrase , e.g. "The Horse and Hounds" without2 votes -
Facility to download pages as JPEG as well asPDF
Please display on Edge to full screen as on Chrome
3 votes -
Stop treating one off subscriptions as continuous
Stop treating one off subscriptions as a continuous subscription. It's sharp practice and it's not a good look.
7 votes -
Pages for all counties
Some coverage of all uk counties in the first instance...still many with no pages at all.
1 vote -
highlighting in editing box
It would be extremely helpful if the blue highlighting box (search result) on the image could be replicated in the editing box so as to save lots of iterative attempts to find that highlighted text for editing.
4 votes -
adoption of corrections
When I edit an article's text, when are those corrections taken into account for a future search? I have been doing corrections for months and none of them have been picked up in subsequent searches.
3 votes -
Previous/next result
Add ‘Previous result’ and ‘Next result’ links to each page shown from a list of search results, so that it is not necessary to return to the results list before viewing the next result. The Times Digital Archive already has this facility.
2 votes -
Zooming feature
I've just rejoined after a couple of years away... maybe it's because I am using Chrome now but when I zoom in to read a highlighted result, I cannot move the page around so the highlight if off the screen... I do not want to have to make a pdf of every result, however tangential to my research! Maybe there should be arrows/ + and - signs, for zooming/navigating a page that are not appearing on my screen? I am having a similar issue on ancestry so it maybe a browser issue
36 votes -
A Timeline, simple base line of world/UK event dates occurring at, or near the atricle date
Place the articles in some kind of timeline, a simple baseline graph idea would help I suppose. I don't have a plan but whenever I find an article concerning an ancestor it would help to picture the time he was living in - who was on the throne, world action concerning Britain etc.
6 votes -
Highlighted articles
I'd like to be able to download and/or print a page that highlights articles of interest as they appear on the screen.
1 voteOpen - Under review ·
AdminThe British Newspaper Archive
(Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive)
responded
Can you give us some more detail here? How would we work out which article were of interest to you, or are you just wanting an easier way to save and print individual articles as you come across them?
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rewards for repairing OCR efforts
a reward system for repairing defective OCR results
5 votes -
Reporting errors to you
An easier way to report errors to you. I've found pages that won't open, the OCR being nearly non existent, the OCR covering a different article on another page, the OCR not opening. When I have reported these errors in the past all I receive back is a standard reply regarding the OCR will have errors and not responding to my specific point.
33 votes
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