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The British Newspaper Archive

@BNArchive · London, UK · joined 24 May 2011

Brought to you by Findmypast and the British Library, the British Newspaper Archive is digitising millions of newspaper pages from the UK and beyond.

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22 401Posts total
3.1KViews on collected posts

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We're excited to bring you six fantastic new titles this week. Highlights include the Illustrated London Clipper, the Halfpenny Weekly, and the Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser. Discover more in our blog now: https://t.co/0iAT9G3XcN #TuesdayTitles https://t.co/YA
An old newspaper titled "The London Clipper and Sport & Play" dated December 21, 1876. It features a large illustration of a woman wearing period clothing in the centre. Advertisements and text are surrounding the illustration, including sections for theatre and sporting events. The document is monochrome with decorative typography.
A vintage front page of "The Northern Telegraphic News" dated January 1, 1856. The layout includes multiple columns with dense text, covering various news articles, advertisements, and announcements. The text is in a classic serif font, typical of newspapers from the 19th century.
This is a historical newspaper page from "The Birmingham Daily Mercury," dated Saturday, October 6 1855. The page features multiple columns with small text, containing advertisements, news articles, and announcements. Some visible ads include Wallington's for toys and fancy goods, and advertisements for Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce. At the top, the newspaper's title is prominently displayed in bold letters. Handwritten notes appear at the top right corner.
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The Bystander, 8 September 1926, showcases a 'Romance of Old Venice,' as depicted by Wilton Williams https://t.co/flnNqbTqqq #OTD #1926Newspapers https://t.co/EKSnfvVqBW
Colourful front page of The Bystander, with the heading picked out in blue. The drawing shows a Venetian carnival scene, two women descending some white stairs to take to a boat. The woman in front wears a rich emerald green dress and wears a tricorn hat and carries a cane. The woman behind her  wears a pastel rose colour dress, with a ruff around her neck. and carries a fan.
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In response to the success of the Mini, Rootes Group came up with their own small economy car - the Hillman Imp. Here The Sphere, 8 November 1963, advertises the 'impressive' Imp https://t.co/HOGrPKg9Hx #MotoringHistory https://t.co/NYdUQ51EXa
Colour advertisement showing the blue Hillman Imp being driven throw a snowy, sleety, scene, two men in the car, both dressed smartly in suits. The words 'Imp Impressive' are picked out in red against a blue sky.
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The Evening Herald (Dublin), 7 September 1926, pictures the 'scene of the appalling cinema tragedy' in Dromcollogher, where a fire swept through a building that was being used as a temporary cinema, killing 48 men, women and children https://t.co/CD1Tr29DGh #OTD #1926Newspapers h
Sepia toned front page of the Evening Herald, with a red 'Final' stamp, the main headline describing the 'Village of Death' at Drumcollogher. There is a central photograph showing the coffins of the 48 victims of the fire, in a street outside the ruined cinema. Other headlines cover a train crash in Chicago, unrest in Greece, and a collision between hearse horses and a car.
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Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views391this account927median for 10K–100K
Reach, %1.54%this account3.40%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %2.07%this account1.54%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post3919270.42×
Reach (views ÷ followers)1.54%3.40%0.45×
Engagement rate2.07%1.54%1.35×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

33728 Jul
39129 Jul
364
7127 Sep
621
4348 Sep
209

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

3.86%28 Jul
3.84%29 Jul
3.57%
0.28%7 Sep
1.45%
2.07%8 Sep
0.96%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.54%.

What the audience does

Likes93.8%60 in total
Reposts3.1%2 in total
Replies1.6%1 in total
Bookmarks1.6%1 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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