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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Berkshire => Topic started by: B17_Fan on Sunday 01 May 16 20:06 BST (UK)
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I read recently that the Newbury weekly news is going to be digitized and put online. Does anyone know the progress of this project or if it's been completed?
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They are fundraising - and, from what I hear, are well short of the target needed to get the project off the ground. The British Library project may get there first.
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I really hope they do - I'm sure there are still many stories linked to my family to be found in there... I can only cope with so much scrolling of the microfiche! :)
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If you subscribe to British Newspapers Online you can vote for the next newspaper to be digitised - the NWN is about 35th in line at present. Vote now (you can give up to 3 of your votes to any one paper) and you might see the NWN online a bit sooner.
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I did vote for NWN when British Newspaper archives first began, I no longer have a subscription but I will encourage a couple of people I know who do, to vote!
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It looks as though the NWN has slipped well down the table of papers to be added to British Newspaper archive. It has only 45 votes & is now just in top 90. If anybody wants to see it appear in archive then it looks as though quite a lot of votes are needed. The highest is just over 700 & the top twenty all have over 200. In my opinion it would be a great help as at the moment West Berkshire has poor coverage.
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They are fundraising - and, from what I hear, are well short of the target needed to get the project off the ground. The British Library project may get there first.
How are they going about this and publicising it?
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They are fundraising - and, from what I hear, are well short of the target needed to get the project off the ground. The British Library project may get there first.
How are they going about this and publicising it?
I'm pretty sure the lack of support has led to them giving up the idea.
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I cannot see any recent updates about digitalisation of NWN. My suggestion is that if anybody wants to see digital copies you can vote on the British Newspaper Archive website, you can vote even if you are not a subscriber. Other papers with coverage in the same area are Hants & Berks Gazette and Hampshire Chronicle. If anybody has any difficulty in finding the correct page hopefully the link below should help.
http://help-and-advice.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/forums/243704-newspapers-we-should-add-next/suggestions/5994736-newbury-weekly-news
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Didn't realise you could vote without being a subscriber - start voting folks!
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They are fundraising - and, from what I hear, are well short of the target needed to get the project off the ground. The British Library project may get there first.
How are they going about this and publicising it?
I'm pretty sure the lack of support has led to them giving up the idea.
I never even knew they were fundraising until I saw your post here. I would have supported it if I'd known. It should have been better publicised.
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Three years (1870-1872) have very recently appeared on the British Newspaper Archive site.
Yipee!
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Three years (1870-1872) have very recently appeared on the British Newspaper Archive site.
Yipee!
I had feared that the Newbury Weekly News would not feature on-line in my lifetime but my prayers have been answered! It seems that the process has recently started, with Edition No. 153 - 6 January 1870, which is the injection I needed to become research active again: wonderful in-depth local news reporting from its inception, including Kingsclere items and a few other North Hampshire parishes.
The BNA website shows that the years 1867-1873 are in, or planned for, but as from 25 Aug 2017 the earliest issue is 6 Jan 1870 and the latest 24 Dec 1872.
Eureka!