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British Library: The British Newspaper Archive reaches 100 million pages. “This week the British Newspaper Archive hits the milestone of 100 million digitised pages. We in the British Library news team are celebrating this achievement and our long partnership with Find My Past by picking a few highlights from the BNA.”

From the same page of the Nairnshire Telegraph in 1880. Fashions for seaside bathing, and one of its potential hazards. #Scotland #Tourism #19thCentury #NineteenthCentury #Nairn #Highlands #Nairnshire #Seaside #Bathing #Fashion #Clothes #Jewellery #Newspapers #BNA #BritishNewspaperArchive #History #ScottishHistory

More indexing the many hundreds of newspaper references I found to a travelling German accordion player and tuner in mid/late 19th century Scotland. He's now turned up in my home town Hawick, and I'm seriously distracted by other adverts on the page. Like this one from 1892. #Hawick #ScottishBorders #SocialHistory #Umbrella #Umbrellas #19thCentury #NineteenthCentury #Newspapers #BNA #BritishNewspaperArchive #Scotland #History #accordion #squeezebox

Spotted this, while checking on the same page another advert from the travelling German accordion player/tuner/repairer I'm researching. Forres, Elgin and Nairn Gazette of 6 May 1903. #Moray #Glasgow #Music #Melodeon #squeezebox #accordion #newspaper #BNA #BritishNewspaperArchive #Edwardian #20thCentury #TwentiethCentury #1900s #early1900s #MusicalInstrument #MusicalInstruments

Spotted this, while checking on the same page another advert from the travelling German accordion player/tuner/repairer I'm researching. Forres, Elgin and Nairn Gazette of 6 May 1903. #Moray #Glasgow #Music #Melodeon #squeezebox #accordion #newspaper #BNA #BritishNewspaperArchive #Edwardian #20thCentury #TwentiethCentury #1900s #early1900s #MusicalInstrument #MusicalInstruments

Spotted this, while checking on the same page another advert from the travelling German accordion player/tuner/repairer I'm researching. Forres, Elgin and Nairn Gazette of 6 May 1903. #Moray #Glasgow #Music #Melodeon #squeezebox #accordion #newspaper #BNA #BritishNewspaperArchive #Edwardian #20thCentury #TwentiethCentury #1900s #early1900s #MusicalInstrument #MusicalInstruments

Spotted this, while checking on the same page another advert from the travelling German accordion player/tuner/repairer I'm researching. Forres, Elgin and Nairn Gazette of 6 May 1903. #Moray #Glasgow #Music #Melodeon #squeezebox #accordion #newspaper #BNA #BritishNewspaperArchive #Edwardian #20thCentury #TwentiethCentury #1900s #early1900s #MusicalInstrument #MusicalInstruments

Spotted this, while checking on the same page another advert from the travelling German accordion player/tuner/repairer I'm researching. Forres, Elgin and Nairn Gazette of 6 May 1903. #Moray #Glasgow #Music #Melodeon #squeezebox #accordion #newspaper #BNA #BritishNewspaperArchive #Edwardian #20thCentury #TwentiethCentury #1900s #early1900s #MusicalInstrument #MusicalInstruments

Spreadsheeting started. 1 row down. 278 to go ... !!! That's 279 newspaper refs (to adverts and reports of his musical performances and concerts) to a travelling German accordion player in Scotland between 1852 and 1903. This will take some time to work through! Aiming at an academic journal paper. #Scotland #Germany #accordion #squeezebox #historicalResearch #music #nineteenthCentury #newspapers #spreadsheet #analysis #academia #histodon #excel #BritishNewspaperArchive

Browsing old #newspapers in the #BritishNewspaperArchive and finding a very intriguing J.G. Yung #accordion performer and piano etc tuner popping up frequently in the #ScottishBorders in the latter half of the 19th century (1850s onwards). A bit of genealogical digging finds he was born in #Darmstadt, #Germany, and died in #Hawick in 1903. I may well pull together the various references into a more scholarly article. #squeezebox #Scotland #music #MusicHistory #HistoryOfMusic #Genealogy #BNA