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  2. Wikipedia:List of online newspaper archives - Wikipedia

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    The British Newspaper Archive Pay OCR searchable newspapers kept by the British Library with over 62 million pages (as at 18 January 2023) and growing weekly, from 1704 to 2009 (many 19th century newspapers available for free with registration); covers all parts of the UK, as well as a few papers from overseas territories (eg India, Canada) and ...

  3. British Newspaper Archive - Wikipedia

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    The library has an almost complete collection of British and Irish newspapers since 1840. This is partly because of the legal deposit legislation of 1869, which required newspapers to supply a copy of each edition of a newspaper to the library. London editions of national daily and Sunday newspapers are complete back to 1801.

  4. History of British newspapers - Wikipedia

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    After the abolition of newspaper stamp tax in Scotland in 1855, The Scotsman was relaunched as a daily newspaper priced at 1d and a circulation of 6,000 copies. The Chartist Northern Star , first published on 26 May 1838, was a pioneer of popular journalism but was very closely linked to the fortunes of the movement and was out of business by 1852.

  5. List of newspapers in the United Kingdom by circulation

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    Breakdown of UK daily newspaper circulation, 1956 to 2019. At the start of the 19th century, the highest-circulation newspaper in the United Kingdom was the Morning Post, which sold around 4,000 copies per day, twice the sales of its nearest rival. As production methods improved, print runs increased and newspapers were sold at lower prices.

  6. List of the oldest newspapers - Wikipedia

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    The French established the first newspaper in Africa in Mauritius in 1773. First newspaper in Mauritius. Published weekly from 1773-01-13 to at least 1790 by Nicolas Lambert in Mauritius. First newspaper in South Africa. Published weekly from 1800-08-16 to at least 1829 by the British Government in South Africa.

  7. History of newspaper publishing - Wikipedia

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    History of newspaper publishing. The modern newspaper is a European invention. [1] The oldest direct handwritten news sheets circulated widely in Venice as early as 1566. These weekly news sheets were full of information on wars and politics in Italy and Europe. The first printed newspapers were published weekly in Germany from 1605.

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