Archives Project
Decades of Sierra Leone's story, soon searchable by anyone.
The Daily Mail's historical archive is being digitised, page by page, into an online resource for students, researchers, journalists and the public, in partnership with universities.
What the archive will hold
- Every surviving print edition, scanned at archival quality
- Full-text search across headlines, bylines and body copy
- Browse by date, decade, subject and place
- Citation-ready references for academic work
- Free access for schools, universities and libraries
Digitisation begins in Phase 3 of the relaunch. Volume 01 of the new Daily Mail is already available in the E-Paper.
Now
Volume 01 online
7 issues of the relaunched paper available as PDFs.
Next
University partnerships
Agreements with Fourah Bay College and the University of Makeni for scanning and cataloguing.
Then
Public search launch
The searchable archive opens to the public, with a reading room at the newsroom.
Do you hold old copies of the Daily Mail?
Families, libraries and former staff often have editions we lack. We would love to scan them and return them safely.