The British Library will be putting more than a million pages of 19th Century news going online19th Century news online
The ?2m project will cover 100 years of news and images from newspapers which are out of copyright.
At the moment, anyone wanting to look at the texts needs to visit the Newspaper Library in Colindale, North London.
A searchable website with digital copies of the newspapers is expected to be ready in 18 months' time.