The British Newspaper Archive, in partnership with the British Library, have made available another one million pages to view online free, meaning that over four million newspaper pages are now freely accessible for researchers to explore. Newspapers form an important source of data for researching historic industries and the people who worked in them during the late 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries, so this latest release should help further exploration of the historical context of industrial heritage sites.

As part of this latest release (September 2024), the British Library has carefully chosen and curated a range of titles to join the free to view collection. Some come from the British Library’s first major newspaper digitisation programme, Nineteenth Century Newspapers, which was funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee, as well as from the Heritage Made Digital project, which focusses on making a variety of British Library collections available online. This includes Herapth’s Rawlay Journal, covering the years 1838-1903.

The collection of over four million free to view newspaper pages represents a significant step in making historical resources available to more and more people, an effort to which the British Newspaper Archive and the British Library are firmly committed.

To access The Archive’s free to view newspapers you will need to register a free account, which you can do by clicking here. 

For further details on the project follow this link here: https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2024/09/19/one-million-new-free-to-view-newspaper-pages/