What does The Courier have in common with Jack the Ripper and football?
The answer is that they are all amongst the popular items searched for on the British Newspaper Archive, an online repository of millions of newspaper pages printed between 1710 and 1954.
The Dundee Courier is the third most searched for title, behind the Hull Daily Mail and Aberdeen Journal although that does not include searches for the Dundee Advertiser, which eventually merged with The Courier to create The Courier and Advertiser.
More than 300 titles from across the UK are included in the archive.
It was set up three years ago and now boasts more than nine million scanned pages, more than double the four million available when the archive launched in November 2011.
It would take the average adult 237 years to read all the pages now stored digitally in the archive.
The five most common search terms used over the past three years are football, murder, death, Jack the Ripper and railway.
Unusual search terms entered into the archive include “beautiful harringay,” “clog fight,” and “eyes with red hot needles.”
The British Newspaper Archive is a partnership between the British Library and findmypast to digitise up to 40 million newspaper pages from the British Library’s vast collection over the next 10 years.