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This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
The first national halfpenny paper was the Daily Mail [1] (followed by the Daily Express and the Daily Mirror), which became the first weekday paper to sell one million copies around 1911. Circulation continued to increase, reaching a peak in the mid-1950s; [ 2 ] sales of the News of the World reached a peak of more than eight million in 1950.
The Daily Mail recorded average daily sales of 980,000 copies, with the Mail on Sunday recording weekly sales of 878,000. [5] In August 2022, the Daily Mail wrote in support of Liz Truss in the July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election, [109] calling her chancellor's mini-budget "a true Tory budget" that September. [110]
While access within the British Library is free, online access is via a subscription system based on daily or item charges, £12.95 monthly or yearly fees of up to £79.95 as of July 2019. New visitors may access three free page views and explore hundreds of national, regional and local titles dating from the 1700s–2000s. [19]
Still published. It was established as the first daily Portuguese newspaper on 21 May 1900 by Aleixo Clemente Messias Gomes in Goa. 1901 Gorkhapatra: Nepali: Kathmandu: Kingdom of Nepal: Still published. It is the oldest state-owned national daily newspaper of Nepal. It was started as a weekly newspaper in May 1901 and became a daily newspaper ...
The Daily Mail was Britain's first daily newspaper aimed at the newly literate "lower-middle class market resulting from mass education, combining a low retail price with plenty of competitions, prizes and promotional gimmicks", [22] and the first British paper to sell a million copies a day. [23]
Key objects in the collection include: The financial scandal of the 1720s, the South Sea bubble, with reports in the Weekly Journal or Saturday’s Post of how Parliament decided that if they left the country, the directors of the South Sea company "shall suffer death as a felon without benefit of clergy and forfeit to the King all his Lands, Goods and Chattels whatsoever."
The Daily Sketch was a British national tabloid newspaper, founded in Manchester in 1909 by Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet. The Sketch was Conservative in its politics and populist in its tone during its existence through all its changes of ownership.