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Royal photos go online
Apr 16, 2010, 12:02 GMT
Hundreds of photographs showing the British royal family since 1842 went online today (16.04.10).
The extensive archive of pictures, which come from a loyal royal newspaper - the Illustrated London News, published from 1842 until 2003 - has been digitised and can now be viewed on the internet by academics researching the monarchy.
The newspaper, which pioneered the use of colour photography, covered Queen Victoria's fancy dress ball at Buckingham Palace in its first issue, as well as the wedding of the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII, to Princess Alexandra of Denmark.
Seth Cale, at Gale Cengage Learning - the publishers who plan to sell the online archive to universities and other institutions -said he was excited about how much information academics could uncover about the Victorian middle class.
He told the Daily Express newspaper: "As an eyewitness to the past, it offers pictorial insight into events across the world in topics as diverse as the Irish famine of the 1840s, the Maori rugby tour of 1888 and the building of the Panama Canal. It really does show you what the Victorian middle classes thought and how they saw the world."
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