British Library's early newspaper archive goes online
More than 4m pages, mostly from 19th-century newspapers, reveal that press intrusion and celebrity gossip are nothing new
As the Leveson inquiry reveals fresh horrors about press behaviour every day, the British Library's archive of early newspapers, which has gone online, shows there is nothing new under the Sun – or, perhaps, in it.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 29 November, 2011
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