Dear list,
This is generally a good start.
They have clearly marked the free material as Public Domain too.
But there is no facility provided for downloading the free stuff in
bulk. And there's too many pages to do one by one.
If anyone can suggest a way of doing so, I'd really be much obliged.
Best,
John
On 09/08/2021 19:25, Andy Mabbett wrote:
Good news:
The British Library have today announced:[1]
"Today's the day - one million 19thC newspaper pages free to view (and
download) on the British Newspaper Archive. And this is just the
start.
https://blogs.bl.uk/thenewsroom/2021/08/free-to-view-online-newspapers.html
"
The linked blog post includes a list of titles.
The bad news is that they clarified:[2]
"...Essentially, you need to register to access the free content, but
won't be charged anything"
and said in the blog post:
"The fact that we consider newspapers made before 1881 to be in the
public domain does not mean that we can [SIC] make all pre-1881
digitised titles available for free"
and that this release represents just 2% of the BNA's digitised newspaper.
Still, a start is a start...;
[1] https://twitter.com/BL_newsroom/status/1424719234815434754
[2] https://twitter.com/BL_newsroom/status/1424730642512809993
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