British Library puts 1 million newspaper pages online for free

The British Library project to digitise copies of newspapers from its archive is to release one million pages as a free resource.
The British Newspaper Archive (BNA) has over 44 million newspaper pages, mostly British and Irish titles, ranging from 1699 to 2009, or just under 10 per cent of all newspapers held by the British Library. Currently, around half a million pages are being added to the BNA every month.
At the moment, access to the service requires a subscription, as that helps fund the