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From a press release issued a couple of months ago:
The British Library's Chief Executive, Dame Lynne Brindley, will today announce a major new partnership between the Library and online publisher brightsolid, owner of online brands including findmypast.co.uk and Friends Reunited. The ten-year agreement will deliver the most significant mass digitisation of newspapers the UK has ever seen: up to 40 million historic pages from the national newspaper collection will be digitised ...
Apparently they are to cover at least 4 million pages in the first two years of the project, and it looks as though the initial focus will be on the second half of the 19th century. The results will be available for free at the British Library, through a subscription website and through the family history websites owned by brightsolid (findmypast etc).
The British Library's Chief Executive, Dame Lynne Brindley, will today announce a major new partnership between the Library and online publisher brightsolid, owner of online brands including findmypast.co.uk and Friends Reunited. The ten-year agreement will deliver the most significant mass digitisation of newspapers the UK has ever seen: up to 40 million historic pages from the national newspaper collection will be digitised ...
Apparently they are to cover at least 4 million pages in the first two years of the project, and it looks as though the initial focus will be on the second half of the 19th century. The results will be available for free at the British Library, through a subscription website and through the family history websites owned by brightsolid (findmypast etc).
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