The Runcorn Examiner

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Creator (organisation)
British Library
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Date published
2022
Abstract

The Runcorn Examiner (1870-1954) was a weekly newspaper and years 1870-1920 have been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.

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Sound and Vision
Digital Research
Contributor (person)
Gaskell, Elizabeth
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Tolfo, Giorgia
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Austin, Claire
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British Library
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Living with Machines
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Living with Machines
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Arts and Humanities Research Council
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AH/S01179X/1
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British Library
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UK
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The file consists of the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) text in XML format for one year of The Runcorn Examiner. The full digitised newspapers comprises 2 Apr.1870 � 19 Aug.1876 (Runcorn and Widnes Examiner), 6 Jan.1877 � 24 Dec.1920 (Runcorn Examiner). The period 1921 - 1954, after which the title was discontinued, has yet to be digitised. The digitised page images for years 1870 - 1920 are available on the British Newspaper Archive website, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/runcorn-examiner The newspaper continued until 1901, but this has not been included in the dataset due to copyright considerations. The British Newspaper Archive pages images are behind a paywall, but from March 2021 the paywall will be lifted and some of these titles will eventually be free to view.
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