Use of British Newspaper Archive for Historical data...
I have
just been chatting on a LinkedIn writers group, with a writer who has
been struggling to get specific data for certain days in their research
for a new Historical Novel.
Many people may not be aware of The
British Newspaper Archive, which has copies of (currently) 6,787,555
newspapers from across the UK going back to circa 1800 and, as I
understand, earlier when scanned.
These can be viewed on purchase
of credits, or for a membership, but once purchased a PDF version of
each can be downloaded and used at your leisure.
As much as they
are a UK resource, Britain's thirst for world news meant that The Times,
and London Standard, for example, carried world news, events, weather,
trade, and as such there is so much data, it is a goldmine.
I
have copies of papers locally and Nationally for November 1854 to
January 1855, for researching The Crimean war, which features heavily in
my next major novel in my Borough Boys series.
Their website can be found here... British Newspaper archives
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