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This week at The Archive we are delighted to welcome a legend of the television world to our collection, the TV Times. Made possible thanks to our partnership with publishing powerhouse Future, the TV Times provides a wonderful window into television history, with this release covering the years 1955 to 1980. In all, we’ve added 72,160 brand new pages to our Archive over the last seven days, whilst this week, we shine a very special light onto the TV Times, exploring the history…

This week at The Archive we’re excited to welcome five brand new titles to our collection, and we’re especially delighted to welcome one of the longest running Free Church newspapers to our holdings, namely the Baptist Times. Meanwhile, we’ve added 125,635 brand new pages to The Archive in all over the past seven days, with updates to eleven of our existing titles, including to the world’s oldest English language general daily newspaper still in circulation, the Belfast News-Letter.So read on…

One of the features of The British Newspaper Archive is the OCR editing tool.  This allows every user to contribute to the improvement of The Archive.  OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition– the process we use to transform millions of digitised images into searchable text.   The computer takes an image of the page and then turns each line into text.  However, as many of us have encountered, the text is not always correct and needs improvement.  As a group, we…