New Free to View on the British Newspaper Archive

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.

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