May's British and Irish Press Guide and Advertiser's Handbook & Dictionary etc. (1871-1880)
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willings.zip
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25.86 MB
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Resource type
Dataset
Date published
2021
Abstract
Newspaper directories produced and published annually in contemporary 19th Britain by advertising agent Frederick May and successors, containing information on newspapers, magazines and periodicals and arranged in alphabetical and sometimes tabular order. Information for each title included price, publisher, office, political and religious leaning.
Creator (organisation)
Frederick May & Son
British Library
Contributor (person)
McKernan, Luke
Contributor (organisation)
British Library
Living with Machines
Project(s)
Living with Machines
Funder
| Funder name | Awards |
Arts and Humanities Research Council | AH/S01179X/1 |
Publisher
British Library
Place of publication
London, UK
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Additional information
The file consists of the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) text in XML format for one annual volume of May's British and Irish Press Guide and Advertiser's Handbook & Dictionary etc. The full digitised press directory comprises two separate titles: Frederick May's London Press Directory and Advertiser's Handbook (1871) and May's British and Irish Press Guide and Advertiser's Handbook & Dictionary (1874-1880). The press directory was not published in 1872 or 1873. May's was an annual directory listing newspapers and other journals published in the UK. It changed its name to Willing's British & Irish Press Guide in 1890 and Willing's Press Guide in 1899. It continued as an annual print publication until 2018.
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