Newspapers are always trying to increase their circulation and one option they try are readers’ competitions, sometimes involving thousands of pounds in prizes. One early type of competition involved readers having to track down and identify the newspaper’s ‘mystery man’ who could be found in a particular area of a town or city. If successful, [more...]
Online newspaper archives are a wonderful source for researching your ancestors, studying history, learning more about your family, hometown or roots, or simply browsing to learn what was happening in day-to-day life in earlier times. There are some wonderful free newspaper archives online covering history and news in Canada. Did I mention they’re free? Take a look! Canadian newspapers [more...]
There are literally billions of pages of newspaper archives available online. Only a small portion of them are from the UK, and a still smaller portion can be viewed for free. Nonetheless, the few free archives that are available from England, Scotland and Ireland are a rich source of history writ large and small. Here are [more...]