NEWSPLAN London and the South East

History and Society Through Local Newspapers
in London and the South East

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Links to Other NEWSPLAN and Related Websites

NEWSPLAN Regional Groups in England

NEWSPLAN in Yorkshire & the Humber Region of England
Click here for newspaper title lists and NEWSPLAN information
http://www.yli.org.uk/newsplan/

NEWSPLAN in North East England
Click here for newspaper title lists and NEWSPLAN information
http://www.nemlac.co.uk/nemlac/page.php3?p=172&fp=11

NEWSPLAN in North West England
Click here for newspaper title lists and NEWSPLAN information
http://www.mlanorthwest.org.uk/newsplan/

NEWSPLAN in the East Midlands of England
Click here for newspaper title lists and NEWSPLAN information
http://newsplan.liem.org.uk/

NEWSPLAN in the West Midlands of England
Click here for newspaper title lists and NEWSPLAN information
http://wm.newsplan.co.uk

NEWSPLAN in South West England
Click here for newspaper title lists and NEWSPLAN information
http://www.devon.gov.uk/etched?_IXP_=1&_IXR=111043

The National Libraries and NEWSPLAN in Scotland, Wales, Ireland

The British Library Newspapers
Click here for BL Newspapers national and local collections and information, for the national NEWSPLAN programme and for NEWSPLAN history and background
http://www.bl.uk/collections/newspapers.html

NEWSPLAN in Scotland
Click here for National Library of Scotland collections and information
http://www.nls.uk
Click here for NEWSPLAN Scotland information
http://www.nls.uk/professional/newsplanscotland
The full newspaper title lists compiled for NEWSPLAN Scotland are not yet available on the internet; however, many titles are included in the NLS collections

NEWSPLAN in Wales
Click here for newspaper title lists and information in Wales
http://www.newsplancymru.info/
There is also a good list of newspaper titles based upon the collections of the University of Wales Bangor
Click here for newspaper titles at the University of Wales Bangor
http://www.bangor.ac.uk/is/llyfrcym/newspapers.htm

NEWSPLAN in Ireland
Click here for newspaper title lists and information in Ireland (including Northern Ireland)
http://www.nli.ie/ca_newsplan.htm

Other NEWSPLAN & Related Websites

NEWSPLAN 2000 Project
Click here for information on and title lists in the national NEWSPLAN 2000 newspaper microfilming project
http://news.vispweb3.userarea.co.uk/

NEWSPLAN NEWSLETTERS, CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AND SURVEYS
Click here for copies of NEWSPLAN newsletters, conference proceedings and results of surveys (as well as minutes of meetings of the UK and Ireland NEWSPLAN Panel)
http://www.bl.uk/concord/linc/newsplan.html

DIGITISED NEWSPAPERS
The Penny Illustrated Paper (London, 1861-1913). Click here for this example of a famous Victorian and Edwardian newspaper: its some 50,000 pages and 500,000 images now fully digitised and searchable through automated indexing (keywords, dates) in the British Library’s Collect Britain project.
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/pip/
British Newspapers 1800-1900 Project. Click here for information on the project to select and digitise up to 2 million pages of important British national, regional and local newspapers published between 1800 and 1900
http://www.bl.uk/collections/britishnewspapers1800to1900.html

NEWS ON NEWSREEL AND TELEVISION
Click here for information on film newsreel databases and developments in digitisation and archiving of TV news, within projects led by the British Universities Film & Video Council. The British Universities Newsreel Database includes 160,000 British cinema newsreel stories from 1910 to 1979 and the Newsfilm Online project has undertaken digital encoding of some of the content of the ITN Archive and Reuters Television library
http://www.bufvc.ac.uk

THE NEWSPAPER SOCIETY
Click here for information on the Newspaper Society that represents and promotes the interests of the publishers of the UK’s regional and local press and whose members gave substantial support to NEWSPLAN 2000
http://www.newspapersoc.org.uk

THE HERITAGE LOTTERY FUND
Click here for information on the Heritage Lottery Fund which gave major support to NEWSPLAN 2000
http://www.hlf.org.uk

THE LASER FOUNDATION
Click here for information on the Laser Foundation which, with a mission to improve library facilities available to the public, supported financially the creation of the NEWSPLAN London & South East web-site
http://www.bl.uk/concord/laser-about.html

THE M25 CONSORTIUM OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIES
Click here for information on the M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries which fosters co-operation among higher education libraries in and around London and the South East and which has supported the NEWSPLAN London and the South East programme
http://www.m25lib.ac.uk