British Library puts 19th C newspapers online

[Albert Rolls]

http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2011/11/29/british_library_puts_19th_c_newspapers_online/ 


LONDON—The newspaper coverage was troubling: London's huge international showcase was beset by planning problems, local opposition and labor woes -- and the transport was a mess. 

It sounds like the 2012 Olympics, but this was the Great Exhibition of 1851 generating stories of late trains, unscrupulous landlords and dangerous overcrowding. 

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