Welsh Newspapers Online arrives

You can now search Welsh newspapers online free of charge.

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Byrne’s Irish Times abstracts go online

The 200,000 records records in Byrne’s abstracts from the Irish Times from 1859-1901 have been made available online.

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Find My Past adds British Newspaper Collection

Find My Past is adding millions of British newspapers to its website.

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New titles and issues in the British Newspaper Archive

The British Newspaper Archive (BNA) continues to add newspaper titles and issues to its database.

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Titles page added to British Newspaper Archive

The online British Newspaper Archive has added a page showing newspaper titles.

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British Newspaper Archive launched

The British Library and brightsolid have launched the British Newspaper Archive with more than 200 newspapers online.

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Irish 1916 Easter Rising information goes online

One of the most comprehensive records of the Irish 1916 Easter Rising has been released in a fully searchable structured index for the first time.

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British Library and brightsolid digitising historic newspapers

The British Library (BL) has announced a major new partnership between the Library and online publisher brightsolid. BL’s Chief Executive, Dame Lynne Brindley, says the ten-year agreement will deliver the most significant mass digitisation of newspapers the UK has ever seen: up to 40 million historic pages from the national newspaper collection will be digitised, making large parts of this unparalleled resource available online for the first time.

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Shock, horror, Tom Jones is three-quarters English!

According to a story in The Times, Tom Jones is not as Welsh as we all thought.

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Is there a gunner in your family tree?

The Royal Artillery Museum in Woolwich has launched a book to help people researching their family history

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