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blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk is the company blog at blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk, writing about history. Since 2014, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for announcements about the British Newspaper Archive, such as its million free pages, and for older historical pieces from the archive's blog.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Presumably that copy refers to how the site used to work prior to today, when they announced the new million free pages: https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2021/08/09/introd... That blog post has a screenshot of an interface where you can chose to search either in "Free To View" or "Subscriber Access" - so presumably you now also get 3 free "subscriber access" pages. Confirmed: I created an account and I'm a…
Comment linking /2021/08/09/introducing-free-to-view-pages-on-the-british-newspaper-archive/
on “The British Library puts 1M newspaper pages online for free”Submitted Facebook in the Edwardian era as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI suspect it is a bit misleading to claim: And the desire for recreation. The explosion of cars isn't necessarily that cars are so useful. Certainly they did have utility. But really they were kind of liberating. In the late 19th century, nobody ever heard of a vacation We can see examples of other places where railways were the "liberating" technology that allowed people to go on holiday. For example: Up to about f…
Comment linking /2021/08/12/how-the-railway-revolutionised-the-british-seaside/
on “Are roads the biggest driver of ecological destruction?”Submitted Understanding the Open Air Schools of the 1900s as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAnother piece from a few months ago: https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2021/03/31/life-o...
Comment linking /2021/03/31/life-onboard-a-prison-hulk/
on “The Indelible Hulk”Submitted Investigating Blackout Crime in the Second World War (2022) as a story · 1 points
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