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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…