Being inspired by Josh Begley (@joshbegley) tweet showing every front page from the New York Times since 1852, I decided I would try and recreate the timeline using historical newspapers from the National Library of Wales.

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While on a train from Cardiff to Aberystwyth, I decided to start hacking a prototype together.

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Output

Some code used in helping create the animation — https://github.com/404mike/python-image-stitching