Spotted in the news, and of possible interest to historians researching the biographies and families of British creatives…

Until recently, if you wanted to buy records from the [UK’s official] General Register Office you had to pay £11 to order a [birth or death etc] certificate through the post, or £7 to download a PDF. But for the first time it’s selling [instantly available] digital images of records, and at an affordable price – just £2.50 per image.

Births to 1922, deaths to 1887.