NEWSPAPERS AS AN HISTORICAL RESOURCE
half-day event presented by CILIP Local Studies Group
Thursday, November 20th 2014, 13.00 – 17.00
CILIP HQ, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
13.00: “Old wine in new bottles”: historic newspapers online. Edmund King, former Head of the British Library Newspaper Library.
14.00: “Skeletons in the cupboard”: family history in local newspapers. Diana Dixon,
14.45: Tea and coffee
15.15: “Tales of the unexpected in the British Newspaper Archive”: Edmund King, former Head of the British Library Newspaper Library.
16.30: Open session and concluding remarks
For more information please contact Dr Diana Dixon, Honorary Reviews Editor, CILIP Update, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE; Diana.dixon@cilip.org.uk
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