大英图书馆发布100万页报纸的数字版本 作为免费资源

目前，访问该服务需要订阅，因为这有助于资助扫描和记录添加到在线档案的每份报纸的费用。不过，为了向研究人员开放更多的档案，大英图书馆已经免费发布了100万页报纸的数字版本，并承诺在接下来的四年里每年再发布100万页。因此，大英图书馆总共将发布500万页的旧报纸文章的数字版本。

大英图书馆不会增加所有的报纸，因为该机构工作人员表示，虽然他们认为1881年以前的报纸属于公共领域，但这并不意味着将免费提供所有1881年以前的数字化内容，因为档案馆要靠订阅来支付其成本。

对于免费服务，有158份报纸提供，时间范围为1720年到1880年。后者的日期很重要。所有构成"免费观看"的报纸都是已过版权期的。大英图书馆在确定一份报纸何时可被视为完全失去版权时，会遵守一个 “安全日期”，即出版日期后140年。

要使用这项服务，用户需要在BNA网站注册一个账户，然后搜索功能使用起来相当简单，而且高级搜索确实有助于缩小搜索结果。

以下是最初"免费浏览"的一百万页的所有报纸标题的完整列表，包括标题的变化。开始和结束日期是指正在免费提供的内容，而不一定是全部的内容。

• The Age (1825-1843)

• Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser (1875-1879)

• The Argus, or, Broad-sheet of the Empire (1839-1843)

• The Atherstone Times (1879-1879), The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times (1879-1879)

• Baldwin’s London Weekly Journal (1803-1836)

• The Barbadian (1822-1861)

• Barbados Mercury (1783-1789), Barbados Mercury, and Bridge-town Gazette (1807-1848)

• The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser (1863-1879)

• The Beacon (Edinburgh) (1821-1821)

• The Beacon (London) (1822-1822)

• The Bee-Hive (1862-1870), The Penny Bee-Hive (1870-1870), The Bee-Hive (1870-1876), Industrial Review, Social and Political (1877-1878)

• The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser (1878-1879)

• The Blackpool Herald (1874-1879)

• Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram (1874-1879), The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram (1879-1879)

• Bridlington and Quay Gazette (1877-1877)

• Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser (1865, 1877-1879)

• Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette (1879-1879)

• The Brighton Patriot, and Lewes Free Press (1835-1836), Brighton Patriot and South of England Free Press (1836-1839)

• The British Emancipator (1837-1840)

• The British Liberator (1833-1833)

• The British Luminary; or, Weekly News and General Advertiser (1818-1818), The British Luminary and National Intelligencer (1818-1818), The British Luminary and Weekly Intelligence (1818-1820), The British Luminary, or Weekly Intelligencer (1820-1820), The Weekly Intelligencer, and British Luminary (1820-1821), The British Luminary and Weekly Intelligencer (1821-1823)

• British Miner and General Newsman (1862-1863), The Miner (1863-1863), The Miner and Workman’s Advocate (1863-1865), The Workman’s Advocate (1865-1866), The Commonwealth (1866-1867)

• The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser (1803-1826)

• Caledonian Mercury (1720-1799), Caledonian Mercury (1800-1859), The Caledonian Mercury and Daily Express (1859-1860), The Caledonian Mercury (1860-1867)

• The Cannock Chase Examiner (1874-1877)

• The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser (1866-1879)

• Champion (1836-1836), The Champion and Weekly Herald (1836-1840)

• The Charter (1839-1840)

• Chartist (1839-1839)

• Chartist Circular (1839-1841)

• Cleave’s Weekly Police Gazette (1835-1836), Cleave’s Weekly Police Gazette and Journal of News, Politics, and Literature (1836-1836)

• Cobbett’s Annual Register (1802-1804), Cobbett’s Weekly Political Register (1804-1836)

• Colored News (1855-1855)

• Cradley Heath & Stourbridge Observer (1864-1864), The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle (1864-1866), The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle (1866-1879)

• The Darlington & Stockton Telegraph, Richmond Herald, South Durham and North York Review (1870-1870), Darlington & Richmond Herald (1873-1874)

• Denton, Haughton, & District Weekly News, The (1873-1874), Denton & Haughton Weekly News, and Audenshaw, Hooley Hill, and Dukinfield Advertiser (1874-1875), Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser (1875-1878), Denton and Haughton Examiner (1878-1879)

• The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser (1872-1875)

• The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette (1858-1879)

• The Examiner (1808-1880)

• The Express (1846-1869)

• The Forest of Dean Examiner (1875-1877)

• The Glasgow Chronicle (1844-1857)

• Glasgow Courier (1802, 1844-1866)

• Illustrated Sporting News and Theatrical and Musical Review (Illustrated Sporting News, Theatrical Review (1862-1865), Illustrated Sporting and Theatrical News (1865-1870)

• The Imperial Weekly Gazette (1808-1810), The Imperial Weekly Gazette and Westminster Journal (1818-1823), Imperial Gazette (1823-1825)

• The Jamaica Mercury and Kingston Weekly Advertiser (1779-1780), The Royal Gazette (1780-1836), The Royal Gazette and Jamaica Times (1838-1840), The Royal Gazette of Jamaica (1840-1840)

• Jewish Record (1868-1871)

• The Kenilworth Advertiser (1872-1879)

• The Lady’s Newspaper and Pictorial Times (1847-1863)

• The Lady’s Own Paper (1866-1872)

• The Lancaster Herald, and Town and County Advertiser (1831-1832)

• The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser (1832-1854), Liverpool Standard and General Advertiser (1854-1855), Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser (1855-1856)

• Liverpool Weekly Courier (1867-1879)

• Lloyd’s Companion to the “Penny Sunday Times and Peoples’ Police Gazette” (1841-1847)

• London Dispatch and People’s Political and Social Reformer (1836-1839)

• The Manchester Examiner (1848-1848)

• Manchester Times (1828-1829), The Manchester Times and Gazette (1829-1848), Manchester Times and Manchester and Salford Advertiser and Chronicle (1848-1848)

• The Midland Examiner and Times (1877-1877), The Midland Examiner and Wolverhampton Times (1877-1878)

• Mirror of the Times (1800-1823)

• The Morning Chronicle (1801-1865)

• Morning Herald (1801-1869)

• The National Register (1808-1823)

• The New Weekly True Sun (1836-1836)

• The News (1805-1835), The News and Sunday Herald (1835-1837), The News and Sunday Globe (1837-1839)

• The Northern Daily Times (1853-1857), Northern Times (1857-1860), The Daily Times (1860-1861)

• The Northern Liberator (1837-1840), The Northern Liberator and Champion (1840-1840)

• Northern Star and Leeds General Advertiser (1838-1844), The Northern Star and National Trades’ Journal (1844-1852), The Star and National Trades’ Journal (1852-1852), The Star of Freedom (1852-1852)

• The Nuneaton Times (1878-1879)

• The Odd Fellow (1839-1842)

• The Operative (1838-1839)

• Pictorial Times (1843-1848)

• Pierce Egan’s Life in London (1824-1827)

• The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News (1878-1879)

• The Poole Telegram (1879-1879)

• The Poor Man’s Guardian (1831-1835)

• The Potteries Examiner (1871-1879)

• The Press (1853-1866)

• Runcorn and Widnes Examiner (1870-1876), Runcorn Examiner (1877-1879)

• The St. Helens Examiner, and Prescot Weekly News (1879-1879)

• The Saint James’s Chronicle (1801-1866)

• Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin Advertiser (1874-1877)

• The South Staffordshire Examiner (1874-1874)

• The Southern Star and London and Brighton Patriot (1840-1840)

• Stalybridge Examiner, and Ashton, Dukinfield and Mossley Advertiser (1876-1876)

• The Star (1801-1831)

• The Statesman (1806-1824)

• The Stockton Examiner, and South Durham and North Yorkshire Herald (1879-1879)

• Stockton Gazette and Middlesbrough Times (1860-1865), Middlesbro’ & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser (1868-1868), The Middlesbrough Gazette and General Advertiser (1869-1869), Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser (1869-1876), The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District (1876-1879)

• Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser (1858-1879)

• Stretford and Urmston Examiner (1879-1879)

• The Sun (1801-1871)

• Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press (1847-1879)

• The Tamworth Miners’ Examiner and Working Men’s Journal (1873-1873), The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men’s Journal (1873-1876)

• The Warrington Examiner (1885-1878), The Warrington & Mid-Cheshire Examiner (1879-1879)

• The Weekly Chronicle (1836-1851), The Weekly News and Chronicle (1851-1854), The Weekly Chronicle (1855-1855), The Weekly Chronicle and Register (1855-1864), The Weekly Chronicle and Register of Banking, Insurance, Railway and Mining Companies, Trade and Commerce (1864-1867)

• Westminster Journal and Old British Spy (1805-1810)

• The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram (1862-1878)

• Widnes Examiner (1876-1879)

• Wolverhampton Times and Bilston, Willenhall, Wednesfield, and Sedgley Journal (1874-1875), The Wolverhampton and Midland Counties Advertiser (1875-1876)