Anyone who want to retrospect into the past to get the feel of the life earlier, can do so as the British Library has put over two million pages of 19th and early 20th century newspapers online.
In partnership with Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and Gale, part of Cengage Learning, the British Library has digitised pages of 49 national and regional UK newspapers. Users can scan through historical newspapers such as the Daily News, Manchester Times, Western Mail, Glasgow Herald and Northern Echo.
The online archive enables people to view articles covering topics including the Battle of Trafalgar, the first FA Cup final in 1872 and the writings of famous authors without having to visit the reading rooms at the London-based library.
The searches on the site are free, but users will have to shell out £6.99 for a 24 hour access coming with 100 downloads, and £9.99 for a week-long access.
Alastair Dunning, digitisation programme manager at JISC, said: “This is one of many JISC-funded projects which will open up valuable slices of history to new audiences using online channels.
The British Library site means genealogists, academics and the public alike now have easy access to a realm of fascinating information – which is core to our ethos of backing innovative uses of technology.”
