Bath Chronicle Georgian Newspaper Project
Find out about life in Georgian Bath
Copies of historic Bath newspapers are held by the Local
Studies section of Bath Library, including those
indexed in this project.
Until recently, it could be very time-consuming to find
information in the newspapers. Now you can search the
Georgian Newspaper Project database on many subjects, including
art, fashion, crime, punishment, pets and politics, to find
out about life in Georgian Bath. You can also
search by names, and by any other words in the database.
The database contains information from the Bath Chronicle for
the years 1770-1800: work on the database is still in
progress.
Background
The project is intended to help those with a general or a
specialist interest in the people, places, services & local
events of Bath (& the surrounding areas) in the Georgian
period.
The project is run entirely by volunteers under the leadership
of the editor, Dr Donald Straughan, also a volunteer.
Dr Straughan writes:
For the many people searching historic Bath newspapers, it
seemed useful to provide a database with abstracts which were
referenced and indexed.
The volunteers were assembled and abstracting started in
December 2003.
