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Newsplan East Midlands

Some of the country's oldest newspapers have been published in the East Midlands region. Newsplan is a major project to preserve, list and microfilm the historic runs of local newspapers held in the regions and in the national library collection. It is a co-operative programme involving public libraries, record offices and museums, the universities and newspaper publishers, along with the active support of the British Library Newspaper Library.

 

Through this website, you can now search for a newspaper title, for newspapers connected with a particular town or county, or to find out what newspapers were published in a particular year in the East Midlands and East Anglia region.

 

More information and papers giving a national overview of Newsplan, can be found at www.bl.uk/concord/linc/newsplan.html and also on their website: "Newsplan 2000 Project"

 

Phase 1 of the national Newsplan 2000 project has now reached a very successful conclusion. 1,350 newspaper titles, including some lengthy runs of 150 years or more, have been preserved on 30,000 reels of microfilm.

 

The Newsplan East Midlands group brings together the libraries across the East Midlands and East of England who are working in close co-operation to deliver the Newsplan project. Minutes of the Newsplan meetings are available as word documents.

Newsplan East Midlands members are:

Chair: Ruth Gordon
Derbyshire Libraries

 

Public Library members:

Cambridgeshire Libraries
Jon Anderson

 

Cambridgeshire Libraries
Chris Jakes

 

Derby City Libraries
Trish Kenny

 

Leicester City Libraries
Angela Cutting

 

Leicestershire Libraries
Steve Kettle

 

Record Office for Leicestershire,
Leicester and Rutland

 

Lincolnshire Libraries
Kevin Best

 

Lincolnshire Libraries
Alison Peden

 

Norfolk Libraries
Karen Holland

 

Northamptonshire Libraries
Jon-Paul Carr

 

Nottingham City Libraries
Christina Raven Conn

 

Nottingham City Libraries
Roger Parish

 

Nottinghamshire Libraries
David Crute

 

Peterborough Libraries
Richard Hillier

 

Suffolk Libraries
Ruth Silburn

 

Higher Education member:
Corinne Fawcett
University of Nottingham

 

Other members:

British Library
Newspaper Library
Ed King

 

Diana Dixon
Independent Researcher

 

MLA (East Midlands) representative
Jerry Weber

 

Nottingham Evening Post
Elena Botterill

 

Stamford Mercury
Eileen Green

 

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