British Newspaper Archive Update for September

There have been 39 additions in September. Did you search in the past ten days? There have been no new additions since.

The collection now totals 71,140,389 pages, up from 70,394,671 in the August update.

The six new titles added are:

Walthamstow Express ( 1894, 1897-1899)
East Essex Advertiser and Clacton News (1889, 1900-1905, 1912)
Schoolmaster and Edinburgh Weekly Magazine (1832-1833)
Kent Times, Tonbridge and Sevenoaks Examiner (1858-1859, 1861-1862)
Liverpool Saturday’s Advertiser (1823, 1826-1828, 1830-1832)
Epsom Journal (1871-1896, 1898-1899, 1901-1902).

Papers with more than 10,000 pages added are:

TITLE YEARS
Belfast News-Letter
1958, 1962-1976, 1979-1981, 1984, 1986
Torbay Express and South Devon Echo
1986-1989, 1991-1992, 1995
Liverpool Daily Post
1878, 1921, 1923, 1926-1929, 1952-1953, 1955-1957, 1959-1961, 1963, 1965-1966, 1968-1972, 1974, 1978-1989, 1991-1992, 1999
Aberdare Leader
1991-1996, 1999
Croydon Advertiser and East Surrey Reporter
1986-1992, 1994-1999
Heywood Advertiser
1986-1990, 1992-1994, 1996-1998
Rochdale Observer
1897, 1902, 1904-1905, 1920, 1932-1933, 1951, 1961, 1966, 1985, 1988, 1996-1999
Widnes Weekly News and District Reporter
1878, 1883-1886, 1890-1891, 1893-1895, 1897-1904, 1906-1908, 1910-1911, 1982

One Reply to “British Newspaper Archive Update for September”

  1. Adding more pages is great- BUT
    BNA should go back and rescan the older newspapers with new OCR algorithms.
    Overall, I am disappointed with the quality of OCR results and consequently the quality of search results in the older Irish newspapers I have been searching recently.

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