Skip to content

Website improvements

← Help & Advice | Give us feedback | British Newspaper Archive

How can we improve The British Newspaper Archive?

You've used all your votes and won't be able to post a new idea, but you can still search and comment on existing ideas.

There are two ways to get more votes:

  • When an admin closes an idea you've voted on, you'll get your votes back from that idea.
  • You can remove your votes from an open idea you support.
  • To see ideas you have already voted on, select the "My feedback" filter and select "My open ideas".
(thinking…)

Enter your idea and we'll search to see if someone has already suggested it.

If a similar idea already exists, you can support and comment on it.

If it doesn't exist, you can post your idea so others can support it.

Enter your idea and we'll search to see if someone has already suggested it.

  • Hot ideas
  • Top ideas
  • New ideas
  • My feedback

40 results found

  1. How to Search for Obituaries with Limited Information?

    Hi everyone,

    I'm hoping someone here might be able to offer some advice. I'm trying to locate an obituary for a distant relative who I believe passed away in the late 1950s or early 1960s, likely in the Manchester area. Unfortunately, I only have a rough estimate of the time period and a partial name — I know the surname (Thompson), and possibly the first initial (J or G).

    I've tried some keyword combinations in the search bar, but I'm struggling to narrow it down without hundreds of unrelated results. Are there any tips or tricks for refining obituary searches…

    1 vote
    0 comments  ·  feedback  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  2. Geometry Dash Lite

    Experience the exciting modes as you go through the obstacles in geometry dash lite. Just crash into a wall or spike, and you will have to start over from the beginning.
    geometry dash lite

    1 vote
    0 comments  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  3. Ragdoll Archers

    To position your character to extend the bowstring, click and hold the left mouse button. There will be a total of five rounds, with the winner being the stickman from the side that manages to survive the most rounds.
    ragdoll archers

    1 vote
    0 comments  ·  feedback  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  4. Drift Boss: Master the Track, Challenge the Limit!

    Welcome to the world of Drift Boss, where your drifting skills will be tested to the limit! Control your car on narrow, slippery and unexpected roads. Just a small mistake can send you falling into the abyss. Are you ready to become a real Drift Boss?

    1 vote
    0 comments  ·  feedback  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  5. renovation

    Recommend renovation services

    4 votes
    1 comment  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  6. Geometry Dash Spam: An Exciting Experience

    Geometry Dash Spam is an exciting fan-made version of the popular game Geometry Dash, developed on the Scratch platform. In the game, players control the character by clicking to jump over obstacles. With rich editing features, you can create your own unique levels and share them with the community. The game not only brings dramatic challenges but also encourages creativity. Join today to explore the colorful world of geometry dash spam!

    1 vote
    0 comments  ·  feedback  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  7. Correcting transcription errors

    If I copy out an article, I like to correct transcription errors so others benefit from the corrected version,

    But your system if very frustrating, as fast as I can correct errors then more appear.

    I usually just copy to my PC and edit there so no one else benefits from my work.

    Comments are limited to 500 characters so I cannot even paste the corrected version there.

    JMB

    2 votes
    Pending - For future development  ·  1 comment  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  8. Option to turn off unwanted frills.

    Please provide an option to turn off saved searches and all other pop-ups so that the search is simple like it used to be.

    1 vote
    0 comments  ·  feedback  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  9. Requesting a rescan of images

    How do we re request to have a page rescanned when half is missing, but is complete on next page?

    Edinburgh Evening News - Monday 01 April 1912, Page 3 has the far column halved - but on page 4 the column on the edge is complete.

    This is a scanning issue and could be corrected by a rescan

    1 vote
    0 comments  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  10. Make it easy to scroll through the pages of a newspapers

    I use the site for historical research, and so I might want to look at a series of newspapers around a specific date to see what was happening. It would be great to be able to scroll through a newspaper;s pages (paticularly when viewing on iPad) rather than the 3-4 clicks needed to flick between pages. I'm thinking similar to a Kindle experience - eg one click or tap to skip a page

    5 votes
    1 comment  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  11. Web Site performance and OCR

    Firstly I think you are doing a great thing with this archive; good job!
    However my experience of trying to contribute to your project in a small way and correct the plethora of errors which your very basic OCR generates in the articles I am researching has been very frustrating. Reviewing and correcting a few thousand words is taking hours when it should take maybe only an hour if the performance of the website was quicker and if the user interface for editing had been better designed. In Microsoft Word or some similar software I can see all the errors…

    4 votes
    1 comment  ·  feedback  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  12. Voting for a publication instructions

    My colleagues and myself have been struggling to vote for a newspaper to be recommended for digitisation. We are not computer illiterates but have found the voting process far from intuitive, particularly as you have to create a second password in order to vote. Do you have some clear instructions we could share with others who have been put off attempting to vote?

    3 votes
    0 comments  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  13. 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
    0 comments  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  14. 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.

    3 votes
    1 comment  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  15. 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
    1 comment  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  16. 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
    1 comment  ·  feedback  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  17. academic citations

    adding a citation button to help with citing your amazing newspaper

    12 votes
    1 comment  ·  feedback  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  18. 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
    2 comments  ·  feedback  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  19. 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" without

    2 votes
    2 comments  ·  feedback  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  20. Facility to download pages as JPEG as well asPDF

    Please display on Edge to full screen as on Chrome

    3 votes
    1 comment  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?
← Previous 1
  • Don't see your idea?

Website improvements

Categories

Feedback and Knowledge Base

(thinking…)