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Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press [plaintext]

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Date published
June 16, 2025
Abstract
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. (1847 - 1890) 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 nameAwards
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
AH/Y00745X/1 - AH/S01179X/1
Publisher
British Library
Place of publication
UK
Official URL
https://doi.org/10.23636/hyq8-f882
Related URL
https://blogs.bl.uk/thenewsroom/2019/01/heritage-made-digital-the-newspapers.html
https://doi.org/10.23636/7s8g-b936
http://livingwithmachines.ac.uk/
Licence
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
DOI
10.23636/hyq8-f882
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10.23636/7s8g-b936
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10.23636/mt9n-hj95
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Keywords
open data
Living with Machines
LwM107
19th century
newspapers
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 and Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. for 1847 - 1879. The full digitised newspaper comprises no. 1-2444 (14 July 1847 - 31 Dec.1890). The digitised page images are available on the British Newspaper Archive website, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/swansea-and-glamorgan-herald The British Newspaper Archive pages images are behind a paywall, but from March 2021 the paywall will be lifted and some of these images will be free to view.
Collection
Newspapers
Living with Machines
Managed by the British Library and supported by the AHRC

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