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Access within the British Library is free. Starting in 2021, some newspaper pages from the years 1720–1880 are free to view online. [18] Full online access is by subscription, based on daily or item charges, £14.99 for one month or £8.34 per month for an annual subscription, as of December 2024.
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 company said that its physical archives, which are stored on higher ground, were not damaged. [9] NewspaperArchive claims as of 30 June 2018 that it has online newspapers dating from 1607 worldwide and its index includes 9,829 newspapers. [10] In 2020, Heritage Microfilm acquired World Archives, the parent company of NewspaperArchive.
Variety Obituaries is a 15-volume series with facsimile reprints of the full text of every obituary published by the entertainment trade magazine Variety from 1905 to 1994. The first eleven volumes were published in 1988 by Garland Publishing , which subsequently became part of Routledge .
Tony Oxley, 85, English free improvising drummer, co-founder of Incus Records. [382] 27 December Jack McLean, 78, Scottish journalist and art teacher. [383] Leonard Singer, 80, British-born Manx politician, Member of the House of Keys (2001–2006, 2011–2016). [384] (death announced on this date)
Janey Godley, 63, Scottish stand-up comedian, writer and actress. [411] Paul Stephenson, 87, British civil rights campaigner. [412] 3 November – Paul Engelen, 75, British make-up artist (Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Gladiator). [413] 4 November
[30] Giuseppe Cacciatore, 77, Italian philosopher, member of the Accademia dei Lincei. [31] Chandrashekhar Dasgupta, 82, Indian diplomat, ambassador to China (1993–1996) and the European Union (1996–2000). [32] Lokenath Debnath, 87, Indian-American mathematician, founder of the International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...