Widnes Examiner [plaintext]
Resource type
Dataset
Date published
June 16, 2025
Abstract
Widnes Examiner (1876-1920) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.
Creator (organisation)
British Library
Living with Machines
Project(s)
Living with Machines
Funder
| Funder name | Awards |
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | AH/Y00745X/1 - AH/S01179X/1 |
Publisher
British Library
Place of publication
UK
Official URL
Related identifier
| Identifier | Type | Relation |
10.23636/gp3h-te03 | DOI | isderivedfrom |
10.23636/mt9n-hj95 | DOI | ispartof |
Additional information
This dataset contains full text and metadata after processing by the Alto2Text pipeline created by the Living with Machines Project. The pipeline took as its input the highly verbose AltoXML files of the same newspaper titles and converted them into the more readable plain text format for the benefit of readers and researchers. It contains plaintext for one year of Widnes Examiner. The full digitised newspapers comprises 264 Aug.1876 - 24 Dec.1920. The period 1921 - 1954, after which the title was discontinued, has yet to be digitised. The digitised page images for years 1876 - 1920 are available on the British Newspaper Archive website, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/widnes-examiner The British Newspaper Archive pages images are behind a paywall, the current dataset comprises 1876 - 1901. The newspaper continued until 1901, but this has not been included in the dataset due to copyright considerations
Collection