The Liverpool-based Northern Daily Times (1853-1861, with two changes of title) was the first provincial daily newspaper in England to enjoy a sustained run. It was also one of the very first one penny dailies.
The file consists of the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) text in XML format for one year of the Northern Daily Times etc. The full digitised newspaper comprises three separate titles: The Northern Daily Times (Liverpool). Holdings: 24 Sept. 1853-6 June 1857; Northern Times. Holdings: 8 June 1857-18 Feb.1860; The Daily Times: Holdings: 20 Feb. 1860-30 Jan. 1861. The digitised page images are available on the British Newspaper Archive website, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/northern-daily-times 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.
