Widnes Examiner

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Creator (organisation)
British Library
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Date published
2022
Abstract

Widnes Examiner (1876-1920) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.

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Sound and Vision
Digital Research
Contributor (person)
Gaskell, Elizabeth
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Tolfo, Giorgia
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Austin, Claire
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Contributor (organisation)
British Library
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Living with Machines
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Living with Machines
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Arts and Humanities Research Council
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AH/S01179X/1
Publisher
British Library
Place of publication
UK
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The file consists of the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) text in XML format 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
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