Good news: The British Library have today announced:[1] "Today's the day - one million 19thC newspaper pages free to view (and download) on the British Newspaper Archive. And this is just the start. https://blogs.bl.uk/thenewsroom/2021/08/free-to-view-online-newspapers.html " The linked blog post includes a list of titles. The bad news is that they clarified:[2] "...Essentially, you need to register to access the free content, but won't be charged anything" and said in the blog post: "The fact that we consider newspapers made before 1881 to be in the public domain does not mean that we can [SIC] make all pre-1881 digitised titles available for free" and that this release represents just 2% of the BNA's digitised newspaper. Still, a start is a start...; [1] https://twitter.com/BL_newsroom/status/1424719234815434754 [2] https://twitter.com/BL_newsroom/status/1424730642512809993 -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk