Press Directories

Press Directories

Full-text records of historic press directories, listing newspapers and other journals, digitised from the British Library collection. Each file contains the run of a press directory over selected years, with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) text in XML format.

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    The Newspaper Press Directory (1846-1920): A Structured and Enriched Dataset
    (2023)
    Mitchell, Charles
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    Beelen, Kaspar
    Mitchell's Newspaper Press Directories contained an almost complete list of newspapers published in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. It was published regularly from 1846 onwards and provided a detailed description of the newspaper landscape over time. This version contains a structured, tabular representation of the directories (as CSV or Excel Spreadsheet). Each row describes a newspaper at a specific point in time. We record title, politics, price, location and other information. Please consult the data card for a detailed overview of the data structure and this blog post for more background on the digitisation process.
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