British Newspaper Archive August Update

This is being prepared in advance. So far, there are 70,394,671 pages in the collection, up from 68,822,392 at the end of July. 

New publications added this month include:
Skelmersdale Reporter (1963, 1965-1972, 1976-1978).
Sutton & Epsom Advertiser (1908-1914, 1916-1928).
Western Echo (1899-1903, 1906-1915).
Farnworth Chronicle (1906-1917).
Y Dydd (1877-1883, 1886-1891).
Llais Y Wlad (1874, 1876, 1878-1884).
Y Gwladgarwr (1858-1860, 1866, 1875, 1877-1878, 1880-1882).

The papers with more than 10,000 pages added are:

Title Years
Gloucester Citizen 1991, 1994, 1996-1998
Holyhead Mail and Anglesey Herald 1921-1929, 1931-1950
Huddersfield Daily Examiner 1970, 1972, 1977-1979, 1983
Manchester Evening News 1962, 1977-1979
Portsmouth Evening News 1960-1961
Rochdale Observer 1972, 1979, 1983, 1986, 1991
Sheerness Times Guardian 1975-1978, 1980
Sherborne Mercury 1744-1747, 1749-1769, 1772-1783, 1790-1794, 1798, 1801-1826, 1828
Streatham News 1909-1916, 1931-1937
Suffolk and Essex Free Press 1949-1958, 1965, 1974-1975, 1979, 1981
Widnes Weekly News and District Reporter 1881-1882, 1921, 1932-1936, 1938-1950, 1952, 1954, 1956-1962, 1964-1971, 1973-1979
Y Dydd 1877-1883, 1886-1891

Major updates coming, and possibly available by now, are: Birmingham Mail (1955-1957, 1959, 1961, 1966-1967).
Widnes Weekly News and District Reporter ( 1912-1920, 1922-1931, 1937, 1951, 1953, 1955).
Ormskirk Advertiser (1856, 1941-1948, 1951, 1954-1955, 1957-1960, 1962-1966, 1968-1984).

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