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BRITISH NEWSPAPER ARCHIVE DEAL RENEWED

he British Library and genealogy subscription website Findmypast announced in May that they’re extending work>. The BNA is already home to the world’s largest online collection of British and Irish newspapers, with over 42 million digitized pages from local, regional, national and specialty papers in all parts of the United Kingdom, Ireland and beyond. The project extension promises another 14 million pages by 2023.

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