Thanks - very interesting! The BNA is a marvellous resource. When I was researching my first book on the First World War, I used the newspaper archives in Cambridge and also the National Archive at Colindale. This was before anything was digitised, so I consulted the newspapers either on microfilm or as actual newsprint. The advantage of this method is that I saw and read a lot of the newspaper, not simply the articles on the specific topics I was researching, so I had a broader sense of what people were reading in the press during and after the war.
It must be hugely rewarding to do this kind of research for your novels, and it's a service to your readers, too. Thank you.
I couldn’t agree more! I love the newspaper archives. The local press in particular can be a gold mine of information. I’ve just posted a story based on my own research into a Victorian lion tamer, using the Aberdeenshire papers.
Thanks - very interesting! The BNA is a marvellous resource. When I was researching my first book on the First World War, I used the newspaper archives in Cambridge and also the National Archive at Colindale. This was before anything was digitised, so I consulted the newspapers either on microfilm or as actual newsprint. The advantage of this method is that I saw and read a lot of the newspaper, not simply the articles on the specific topics I was researching, so I had a broader sense of what people were reading in the press during and after the war.
It must be hugely rewarding to do this kind of research for your novels, and it's a service to your readers, too. Thank you.
Delightful! (And I'm dying to hear more about the actress...)
Totally fascinating!
I couldn’t agree more! I love the newspaper archives. The local press in particular can be a gold mine of information. I’ve just posted a story based on my own research into a Victorian lion tamer, using the Aberdeenshire papers.
I love it! But yes, browsing in person is unbeatable.