British Newspaper Archive Update for January

There have been 41 additions in January and 33 last month. The earliest is for 1873.

The collection now totals 73,465,208  pages, up from 73,140,981 in the December update. Three new titles have been added. Those with more than 10,000 pages added are:

TITLE DATE RANGE
Biggleswade Chronicle 1970-1980
Cumbernauld News 1961-1991
Derry Journal 1991, 1997
Market Harborough Advertiser and Midland Mail
1952, 1969-1980, 1983-1988, 1990-1991
Mearns Leader
1913-1957, 1959-1975, 1981-1984, 1986-1989, 1991-1992
Motherwell Times
1961-1976, 1978
Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph 1986
Retford, Worksop, Isle of Axholme and Gainsborough News
1955-1972, 1976-1979, 1981, 1989-1990

A reminder that newspapers from a range of communities are included, not just a largest. In Leicestershire, aside from nine Leicester titles, there are papers from Ashby(-de-la-Zouch), Coalville, Hinckley, Loughborough, Market Harborough, Melton Mowbray, Oadby and Wigston.

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