Sealand News

One of the great things about the internet is how it gives us a chance to look up the kind of information from the comfort of our home that would usually require a trip to the library to sift through micro-film.

News agencies are gradually digitising more of their archives, revealing articles stretching back decades. This is a goldmine for anyone following Sealand, because with the Principality being established in 1967 there are many years of news reports to sift through.

You can now go online and very quickly find articles about Sealand stretching back to the 70s that are available instantly, online, without any trips to a library or newspaper archive. It’s thanks to the all-encompassing reach of Google, which not only indexes web pages for searches, but also operates ‘Google News’, an aggregator that catalogues and links news articles and allows you to search through years of articles.

Even if you’ve never used Google News before it’s really easy. Head over to http://news.google.co.uk and enter a search term into the box. Looking for just ‘Sealand’ brings up too many matches that have nothing to do with Sealand itself, so try ‘Principality Sealand’ (the search ignores words like ‘of’). Unless there have been any stories on Sealand in the last few weeks this may well come up with zero results, but look to the left side of the page and you’ll see the ‘Archives’ heading.

The archives allow you to search by year. For the best results choose ‘Other Dates’ then enter a date range. You’ll discover news articles from the 1970s. The only drawback is that the older news reports require payment before you can see them, though it is usually just a small amount.

Don’t forget to make use of standard search tricks to help narrow down a particular article. Put words in quote marks to find that exact phrase (for example: “principality of sealand”) or use the plus symbol to isolate results that include both words (like “principality of sealand” + “roy bates”). In a similar manner you can also use the minus symbol to exclude a word from the results.

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