Friday, March 6, 2015

Newly Digitised Newspapers at Trove

Now available through Trove is the Melbourne Punch (Melbourne, Vic: 1855–1900), the Cloncurry Advocate (Qld:1931–1953) and the Mackay Mercury (Qld: 1867–1887), and the earliest-known Chinese-Australian newspapers, The Chinese Australian Herald (1894–1923), Chinese Times (1902–1922) and The Chinese Advertiser (1856) which later became the country's first bilingual newspaper, The English and Chinese Advertiser (1856–1858).