NENA stands for the North of England Newspaper Archive. Our mission is to create a searchable online database of local and regional newspapers for the benefit of researchers and historians (including family historians). The project is run on a not-for-profit basis by academics and community volunteers.. Find out more

Old newspapers are priceless memory banks, with almost every aspect of past life tucked away in their pages. New digital technolgies give us the power to search these vast memory banks in faster and more effective ways. At NENA, our aim is to digitise as many local and regional newspapers from the North of England as possible and publish them online. Find out how you can be part of this revolution.. Find out more

NENA is currently digitising selected old local newspapers from regional and national libraries. The process involves scanning each page with powerful Optical Character Recognition software (OCR) in order to create searchable text. We need your help to proof and edit this text so that searches are 100% effective.. Find out more

Local newspapers can be an integeral resource to familiy historians, but have been under-used in the past because they are rarely indexed. Until recently, a family historian could never be certain if the paper he/she was researching contained anything useful about his or her ancestors without long, labourious page searches. Faced with thousands of pages and millions of words, it is hardly surprising that many threw their hands up in despair. This is where NENA can help.. Find out more

See our comprehensive inventory of archived regional newspapers in the country, including the British Library Newspaper Library and Collingdale London.. more

In recent times, newspapers have become an integral resource to family historians. See how NENA can be of assistance to genealogists.. More

Find out more about the people behind NENA, their roles within the project, as well as their wider academic interests. More