The Runcorn Examiner [plaintext]
Resource type
Dataset
Creator (organisation)
British Library
Living with Machines
Date published
June 16, 2025
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.
Organisational unit
Sound and Vision
Digital Research
Project(s)
Living with Machines
Funder
| Funder name | ISNI | Awards |
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | AH/Y00745X/1 - AH/S01179X/1 | |
Publisher
British Library
Place of publication
UK
Official URL
Licence
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Alternate identifier
0002608
0002609
Related identifier
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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 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.
Collection