periodicals research

Research Finds from the archives, periodicals research

Discoveries and Surprises in The Salvation Army’s Prolific Press

March 27, 2020

by Flore Janssen The Salvation Army and its Archive At first glance The Salvation Army may seem like a world unto itself. The global church and charity grew out of the East London Christian Mission begun by preachers William and Catherine Booth in 1865. It is characterised by its own […]

Research Finds mining the archive, periodicals research, research projects

Introducing the Atlas of Digitised Newspapers and Metadata

March 6, 2020

By Emily Bell and M. H. Beals Just as the nineteenth-century newspaper was a messy object, filled with an ever-changing mix of material in an innumerable number of amorphous layouts, working with the structures of digitised newspapers is no different. While a user approaching a digitised newspaper collection through a […]