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Hot Off The Press – New Titles This Week

This week at the archive we’ve added 212,914 new pages, with a new Kent title and plenty of updates. Joining The Archive this week is the Tunbridge Wells Standard. Described as an organ of the Conservative Party the paper was established in 1856 the paper focused on local events and gave space to announcing the comings and goings of the gentry and other fashionable people during the tourist season. Published on a Friday the paper, which served the spa town

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8 million newspaper pages are now fully searchable

We’re thrilled to announce that you can now explore 8 million historic newspaper pages online. That’s double the number that you could search when The British Newspaper Archive launched in November 2011.   Search the newspapers   Try your search again If you’ve tried searching for a person, event or place before without success, it’s well worth trying again now. Thousands of pages are added every week, so your chance of finding something amazing increases all the time. So far

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