The British Newspaper Archive are wholly owned by Findmypast Limited, the same company that brings you family history websites Findmypast, GenesReunited, Lives of the First World War. The British Newspaper Archive examine team now works on-site at the British Library’s state-of-the-art Newspaper Storage Building in Yorkshire, England. The British Newspaper Archive has made an important investment in state of the art scanning equipment, including 5 huge A0 (allowing them to scan pages up to a square metre, or just over a square yard, in size) colour scanners.
The British Newspaper Archive has inspected the newspaper pages in Yorkshire, England, the images are moved to their operations centre in Dundee, Scotland. The British Newspaper Archive has built a text index for each of the pages, this information is fed into their search system, allowing you to search millions of words within seconds. The British Newspaper Archive technology is developing all the time, and although it is far from perfect, they are always refining it to make sure that we can build as accurate an index of what is within the pages as they can.
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