Over one million new free-to-view pages have recently been added to the British Newspaper Archive. Over four million newspaper pages are now free.
Here are the British and Irish newspapers released.
Title | Country | Years Added |
Blackburn Standard | England | 1883-1885 |
Emigrant and the Colonial Advocate | England | 1849 |
Exeter Flying Post | England | 1800-1804 |
Express (London) | England | 1869 |
Hammersmith Advertiser | England | 1861 |
Herapath’s Railway Journal | England | 1838-1802 |
Home News for India, China and the Colonies | England | 1847-1870, 1889-1896 |
Ipswich Journal | England | 1720-1721, 1724-1737, 1739-1800 |
Liverpool Albion | England | 1881-1882 |
London Mercury 1836 | England | 1837 |
Morning Herald (London) | England | 1808-1812, 1815-1830 |
Newcastle Courant | England | 1819 |
Nonconformist | England | 1841-1900 |
Northern Echo | England | 1870, 1872-1897, 1899-1900 |
Pall Mall Gazette | England | 1865-1902 |
Royal Cornwall Gazette | England | 1801-1896, 1898-1902 |
Sun (London) | England | 1873-1875 |
Surrey & Middlesex Standard | England | 1840 |
The Examiner | England | 1881 |
Worcester Journal | England | 1808-1816, 1818-1869, 1871-1887, 1889, 1891-1896, 1900 |
York Herald | England | 1801, 1803-1820, 1823-1896, 1899-1900 |
Cork Daily Herald | Ireland | 1858-1901 |
Dublin Weekly Nation | Ireland | 1842-1900 |
Greenock Telegraph and Clyde Shipping Gazette | Scotland | 1857-1902 |
North British Agriculturist | Scotland | 1849-1893 |
Wrexham Advertiser | Wales | 1857-1900 |
An interesting addition is 16 titles from the Caribbean from 1771 to 1902.
Title | Country | Years Added |
Antigua Observer | Antigua | 1848, 1870-1902 |
Antigua Standard | Antigua | 1883-1890 |
Barbados Agricultural Reporter | Barbados | 1845, 1870-1888, 1895-1902 |
Barbados Herald | Barbados | 1879-1896 |
Dominica Dial | Dominica | 1883-1890 |
Dominica Guardian | Dominica | 1893-1902 |
Official Gazette of British Guiana | Guyana | 1893-1902 |
Budget (Jamaica) | Jamaica | 1877-1883, 1886-1888 |
Colonial Standard and Jamaica Despatch | Jamaica | 1858, 1864-1895 |
Morning Journal (Kingston) | Jamaica | 1838-1840, 1858, 1864-1875 |
Voice of St. Lucia | Saint Lucia | 1885-1902 |
Saint Christopher Advertiser and Weekly Intelligencer | St Kitts and Nevis | 1839-1840, 1855, 1869-1888, 1897-1902 |
St. Christopher Gazette | St Kitts and Nevis | 1771, 1837, 1839-1840, 1848, 1871-1888 |
St. Kitts Daily Express | St Kitts and Nevis | 1884, 1886 |
Trinidad Chronicle | Trinidad & Tobago | 1864-1885 |
Mirror (Trinidad & Tobago) | Trinidad and Tobago | 1898-1902 |
To complete the inventory, there’s New Zealand’s Lyttelton Times from 1851 to 1902.
Read the BNA blog post.
So nice to see BNA opening up more newspapers for free viewing..they’re such a rich resource for researchers of all stripes.