{"id":2004,"date":"2025-05-13T08:05:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T08:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oldbritishnews.com\/convicts\/?page_id=2004"},"modified":"2026-09-08T10:34:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T10:34:47","slug":"british-newspaper-research-transported-convicts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oldbritishnews.com\/convicts\/","title":{"rendered":"Free British Newspaper Research (1750\u20131950) | Old British News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Transported Convicts \u2013 Discovering the Lives Behind the Sentences<\/h2>\n

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Old British News<\/em>\u00a0is an independent historical newspaper archive and research service specialising in genuine British newspaper material from\u00a01750\u20131950<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Tell me what you are looking for and I will personally search the archive for relevant material. Where suitable articles are found, I provide\u00a0high-quality scans of original historical newspaper reports<\/strong>\u00a0to researchers anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n

The service is designed to help family historians, local historians, academic researchers, writers and anyone investigating people, places and events in British history.<\/p>\n

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