Sweet digital-historical goodness

The British Library is beginning a project to upload a million pages of 19th-century newspapers to the Web.

The BBC reports:

Among the national papers that are expected to be digitised is The Morning Chronicle, a reformist newspaper which employed Charles Dickens as a reporter and W M Thackeray as art critic.

Another likely candidate is the Morning Post, which featured articles by Samuel Coleridge and William Wordsworth.

Editorials, advertisements and photographs will be archived, as well as news reports, as they are seen as providing insights into the values of British society at the time.

Ladies and gentlemen, Christmas arrives in eighteen months.

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