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With so many excellent TV programmes, newspaper/magazine articles and new biographies about the life and art of Charles Dickens, it can sometimes be difficult to think up a new angle to study the life of Boz from.Luckily, the British Newspaper Archive contains 100s of stories about Charles Dickens – ranging from reviews of his novels and his reading tours to his love for ‘Grip’, his talkative and clownish pet raven (and muse for the raven in ‘Barnaby Rudge’).So as…

though not both things in the one telephone call, just in case you’re wondering…We’ve found some interesting techie and scientific stories in the British Newspaper Archive over the last week, which we’ve posted on our Facebook page.The first story is rather amusing (and a touch surreal), and reports on the demo of the telephone that Alexander Graham Bell gave to Queen Victoria at Osborne House in 1878. Especially interesting is the musical pieces that were played down the phone…

Members of the British Newspaper Archive Team will be attending the ‘Who Do You Think You Are? Show at the Olympia Centre in London, from Friday 24 to Sunday 26 February 2012.The biggest family history event in the world, we will be attending ‘WDYTYA Live’ to give demos of the newspaper archive website, and also to help people who are looking to trace their ancestors using archive websites.Once we know the number of the stand and our location in the exhibition…

We’ve recently started to offer people a glimpse of what the newspaper archive contains, by uploading some content to our Facebook page at:http://www.facebook.com/TheBritishNewspaperArchive As the archive is likely to appeal to a large number of different audiences, we’re striving to choose content that will appeal to these different audiences.Our Facebook page already includes stories and illustrations on a number of different subjects – ranging from terrific images of the Great Exhibition of 1851 to assassination attempts on Queen Victoria.We’re…