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Monday, February 20, 2006

BBC NEWS | England | Somerset | City history database goes online

City history database goes online

Georgian newspapers detailing life in 18th Century Bath have been made electronically available to the public.

Microfilm copies have been created of the Bath Chronicle dating from between 1770 and 1800.

It has taken 15 volunteers more than three years to complete the cataloguing work, which is still continuing.

What a tremendous idea, can you imagine what a valuable tool we would have if The Shields Gazette (reputed to be Britain's oldest regional newspaper) had all of it's archives in the local library committed to microfilm and reproduced as an online database! How about it guys, if a sleepy little culturally intense city like Bath can manage it, could Johnston Press get a few volunteers together to make it happen here?

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BBC Story
Bath Georgian Newspaper project

# posted by Curly : 10:42 pm

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