Hi All,
If you register (which is also free) then you can save the images as well and much
like the
Times on-line you may be pleasantly surprised by what turns up....
For example, as is my want I simply entered "Ogmore Vale" and had nearly 800
hits!! Though 80%
turned out to be the daily shares listing for the Ogmore and Llynfi Railway Company,
though several
"interesting" and previously unknown facts(?) turned up, amongst which was an
attempted murder and
suicide in a local farm in the 1930`s not yet discovered in our usual source the
"Glamorgan
Gazette".....
Have fun with our searches.....
Regards
Huw
Secretary, OVLH&HS
www.ovlhs.co.uk
huw(a)ovlhs.co.uk
tom frizell wrote:
Hi Jeff,
Some very good reports of the train accidents occurring at Pontypridd, with
lists of dead and injured.
Tom Frizell
GFHS 5283----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Coleman" <jeff.coleman(a)ntlworld.com>
To: <glamorgan(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 9:34 PM
Subject: [GLA] FREE ACCESS TO THE GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER ARCHIVES
This is from 'LostCousins' newsletter, but this has been reported elsewhere.
The Observer - the oldest Sunday newspaper in the world - and the Guardian,
another of Britain's oldest newspapers, are putting their archives online,
and
for a short period you can get 24-hour free access.
http://archive.guardian.co.uk
Currently you can view articles from the Guardian from 1821-1975, and from
the Observer from 1900-1975.
It may be that you are only able to get free access for one 24-hour period,
and it may be that there are conditions such as registering. You would need
to check for yourselves. Remember that the Guardian started out as a local
newspaper for Manchester.
However it appears that the searching is free at the moment at least, and
all you pay for is images of articles.
e.g. searching on Edison and "Electric Light" turned up a first occurrence
on 9th October 1878
Jeff