Drew Busby ! Posted August 10, 2009 Share Posted August 10, 2009 "Google isn't only scanning and archiving millions of books in its Google Books project, it’s also adding newspaper archives to its online repositories going as far back as the 18th century. The newspaper digitization effort started almost a year ago and the search giant has recently updated the inventory, quadrupling the number of articles available, while bringing new publications to the archive." http://tinyurl.com/google-archive-article If you're like me and enjoy dredging through newspaper archives, then this is right up your street. Some are pay-per-view but a heck of a lot is free. For example, for all articles for "Edinburgh" going back to 1700... http://news.google.co.uk/archivesearch?as_user_ldate=1700&as_user_hdate=2009&q=edinburgh&scoring=a&hl=en&ned=uk&q=edinburgh&lnav=od&btnG=Go Then click on the 'Timeline' to narrow things down a bit more. A few specifics... The Argus, Melbourne 1915: HMFC in WW1 http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/1510289/379611?zoomLevel=3'>http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/1510289/379611?zoomLevel=3 New Zealand Tablet 1879: Hibs vs Hearts http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/1510289/379611?zoomLevel=3 New York Times, 1868: An American visits Edinburgh http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=990CEFDD1330EE34BC4D52DFBE668383679FDE ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughesie27 Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 REading that last article, it could have been written yesterday. The city must have barely changed in the last 150 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew Busby ! Posted August 11, 2009 Author Share Posted August 11, 2009 REading that last article, it could have been written yesterday. The city must have barely changed in the last 150 years. He obviously wasn't a big fan of Edinburgh burdz thats for sure... Had to laugh at this one too ...Taranaki Herald, 1902: http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=TH19020205.2.27.1 "Monorailway in Scotland The plans of a monorailway between Edinburgh and Glasgow to have a speed of 117 miles an hour have been submitted to the Board of Trade". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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