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Thousands of pages from the KM Group's newspaper archive will go online this month - and there will be free access for everyone in the UK.
The family-owned firm is the first regional publisher in the country to digitise volumes of its historic newspapers thanks to a Your Heritage grant and a dedicated group of volunteers.
Tens of thousands of South Eastern Gazette pages, the forerunner of the Kent Messenger, from 1852 to 1912 are being put online as a fully searchable archive.
This covers the greatest period of social and industrial revolution in British history – and an inspiration for the London 2012 opening ceremony.
The archive goes live on Friday, March 22 marked by a launch event at the Historic Dockyard in Chatham attended by 200 Kent schoolchildren and members of local history groups.