Welsh Newspapers Online – 27 new publications
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There is great excitement today as we release 27 publications (200,000 pages) from the Library’s rich collection on Welsh Newspapers Online.
Take a trip back in time from the comfort of your home or office and discover millions of freely available articles published before 1919.
The resource now allows you to search and read over 630,000 pages from almost 100 newspaper publications from the National Library’s collection, and this will grow to over 1 million pages as more publications are added during 2014. Among the latest titles are Y Negesydd, Caernarvon and Denbigh Herald, Glamorgan Gazette, Carmarthen Journal, Welshman, and Rhondda Leader, not forgetting Y Drych, the weekly newspaper for the Welsh diaspora in America.
The resource also includes some publications that were digitised for The Welsh Experience of World War One project.
Browse the resource and discover unique information on a variety of subjects, including family history, local history and much more that was once difficult to find unless the researcher was able to browse through years of heavy volumes.
The linguistic diversity of the WWW just took a step in the right direction thanks to the National Library of Wales.
Can a realization that recorded texts are semantically diverse (diachronically and synchronically) be far behind?
I cringe every time the U.S. Supreme Court treats historical language as transparent to a “plain reading.”
Granting that I have an agenda to advance by emphasis on the historical context of the language, just as they do with a facile reading devoid of historical context.
Still, I think my approach requires less suspension of disbelief than their’s.