The Local Studies Library subscribe to a number of online resources on your behalf.
Ancestry Library Edition – Ancestry is one of the most well known subscription genealogy sites in the world. It has over 4 billion names in over 4,000 collections. Ancestry provides the most genealogical information in one place including many historical records that have previously not been available online. It is continually expanding.
Ancestry Library Edition is distributed exclusively to libraries and is ideal for the family historian or local historian.
Access is only available in the library.
Available in Bradford Libraries only.
NewsBank – Any customer at any local library or with a library ticket from any PC, at home or at work can now use a new local newspaper archive.
Papers include:
Bradford Telegraph and Argus from 2007 to date, Craven Herald and Pioneer, Keighley News, Keighley Target, Bradford Target, Aire Valley Target, Wharfedale Newspapers from 1998-2008
North Yorkshire, Yorkshire Evening Press, Selby Star, York Star, York Gazette and York Herald and York Advertiser from 1998-2008
Nineteenth Century Newspapers: Explore over 2 million pages of nineteenth century British Library newspapers. All text fully searchable with keywords.
Bradford and District Local Studies 
It’s now \september 1929 and enduring trouble with nineteenth century website YET AGAIN.
Have borrowers cards been given new numbers lately, or been updated in some other way?
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No change to borrower cards or numbers. Is there a problem? If so please contact me: peter.walker@bradford.gov.uk
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Does this website ever get checked? OBVIOUSLY NOT! Many entries simply refuse to appear making searching frustratingly long-winded and fruitless. Lancashire papers are particularly bad. Please check the website and try to correct the many errors.
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Hi Jean. Which website are you referring to.
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19th century newspapers refusing to respond at all. Why?
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It is working fine at our end. What is the problem???
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It isn’t working at my end at 10.17 on March 30th 2018. Why?
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Hi Jean. I have tested access and it works fine. If your library card number starts with an R, please do not type this in.
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19th century newspapers refusing to connect today. Why? Was fine yesterday. Have always been problems with this site. Pity because it’s extremely useful – when it condescends to work.
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seems fine today
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Why has 19th century newspapers website become so hard to access? It used to be pretty good but today it won’t grant me access using my library borrow card number.
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There seems to be a technical problem. This is being looked into Jean. Sorry for the inconvenience
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