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British Library make 300 years worth of newspaper articles available online
The British Library has opened its archive of 300 years worth of local and regional newspapers, making 4 million web pages worth of news paper articles available online. Until now, those looking to use The British Newspaper Archive for research…
British Library team up with Google to digitise book catalogue
The British Library is set to bring its unrivalled collection of 17th and 18th century texts into the digital age through a new partnership with Google. Google are to digitise 250,000 texts, making them available to be searched and copied…
British Library making rare books virtually available online
The British Library has started a monumental project: to put a number of the rare books stored in its archives online, so that anyone can virtually thumb through them from the comfort of their home, and without the worry that they’ll get grubby finger smudges or jam on the delicate, highly valuable pages…