The Newspaper Press Directory (1846-1920): A Structured and Enriched Dataset
Resource type
Dataset
Creator (Person)
Mitchell, Charles
Beelen, Kaspar
Date published
2023
Abstract
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.
Contributor (person)
Austin, Claire
Contributor (organisation)
British Library
The Alan Turing Institute
Living with Machines
Project(s)
Living with Machines
Funder
| Funder name | Awards |
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | AH/S01179X/1 |
Publisher
British Library
Place of publication
London, UK
Official URL
Additional information
The file consists of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) text in CSV and XLSX format for each year the directory was published, where a physical copy is housed in the Newsroom. The digitised pages will be made available on BL's Universal Viewer
Collection