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Category: Sources Lab

Over half of a million pages of historical newspapers now openly available

March 7, 2023 | Written by Giorgia Tolfo

Today the British Library and Living with Machines project released the text of 50 historical digitised newspaper...

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Press Tracer: Visualise Newspaper Lineage

November 17, 2021 | Written by Olivia Vane

Last week we shared ‘Press Tracer’, a data visualisation to help trace the lineage of historical newspaper...

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Sharing the benefits: free to view newspapers on the British Newspaper Archive

August 9, 2021 | Written by Mia Ridge

We are excited to announce a major milestone for newspapers digitised through this project – from today, some of...

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Press Picker: visualising formats and title name changes in the British Library’s newspaper holdings

August 5, 2020 | Written by Olivia Vane

Press Picker visualisation One of the challenges in Living with Machines is making sense of collection metadata at...

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Finding your way… among newspapers

June 16, 2020 | Written by Giorgia Tolfo

Digitisation can be a lengthy process extending beyond the steps, funding, resources and agreements that are required...

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Newspaper copyright and Living with Machines

March 19, 2020 | Written by Claire Austin

In my role as Rights Assurance Manager for Living with Machines, it’s my job to ensure that the project has...

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Sources: Understanding the Victorian Newspaper Landscape

October 14, 2019 | Written by Kaspar Beelen

Newspapers play a central role in Living with Machines. As periodicals, they register the big and small. They allow us...

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A quick tour of two counties

August 22, 2019 | Written by David Beavan

Our initial newspaper data comes from the British Newspaper Archive, thanks to the British Library and FindMyPast. We...

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Introducing the Sources Lab

July 3, 2019 | Written by David Beavan

On the face of it, what Sources Lab does sounds really straightforward: what do the historical sources say, and what...

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