Re: Transcriptions

On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 20:40:03 +0000, Richard Heaton <rjheaton@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

this - or could borrow them until the late 18th Century) so you needed the
news of the war in Germany , and the highwayman lurking on the outskirts of
London to keep the readership - which in turn gave confidence to those
wishing to advertise to do so (advertising revenue being key) - & office
copies often provide the names of those who advertised written onto the
newspaper as notes

And yet I have found old papers with birth, marriage and death announcements,
which nowadays have to be paid for whichever paper they appear in, with an
appended note like "London papers please copy", apparently in the expectation
that they would do so.


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