The Sun was a daily evening newspaper founded in 1792 with the support of then Prime Minister, William Pitt, and his Tory government. By the mid-1830s the politics of the newspaper had shifted, and it was advocating liberal and free trade principles. Ran 1792-1871, with dataset covering 1801-1871.
The file consists of the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) text in XML format for one year of The Sun. The full digitised newspaper comprises no.2584-24555 (1 Jan.1801 - 25 Feb.1871). The digitised page images are available on the British Newspaper Archive website, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/sun-london The British Newspaper Archive pages images are behind a paywall, but in 2021 the paywall is expected to be lifted for this title and eventually all the newspapers we are digitising under the Heritage Made Digital programme.
