Eagle-eyed followers and friends of The Archive will have noticed we have been quite quiet of late in publishing new newspaper pages to the site. This week, we are pleased to welcome new pages from the West Lancashire Evening Gazette to our collection, as we provide an update from the British Newspaper Archive HQ. Meanwhile, in all this week, we have added 5,396 brand new pages to our collection. Register now and explore The Archive An Update from The Archive …
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We’ve added 153,774 pages to 10 regional titles to The Archive this week. We have added seventy-five years worth of material from between 1911 and 2003. Our additions focus on augmenting existing titles including the West Lancashire Evening Gazette which we first added in September of this year, and the Sussex Express which we first added to in 2013. The Sussex Express which first joined The Archive in 2013 has undergone many title changes. In 1857 it was The Sussex …
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We’ve added 315,856 new pages to The Archive this week, taking our total page count up to a mind-boggling 85,317,265. We’re delighted to welcome two new English newspaper titles – the Darlington Telegraph and the Sandwell Chronicle – to our collection. We’ve also updated 15 of our existing titles, so there are fascinating new pages from Belfast to Biggleswade for you to discover. Read on to learn more about this week’s new and updated titles, and uncover a spooky story …
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This week at The Archive, as well as reaching an incredible 85 million newspaper pages, we are also delighted to welcome new pages to the world’s longest-running country and field magazine, and one of Britain’s oldest magazines, The Field. That’s not all, we’ve also added one brand new title to our collection this week, the Worksop Guardian, with updates to fourteen of our existing titles, as 169,756 new pages join us in all. So read on to discover more about …
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This October we’re exploring the historical superstitions and traditions from across the British Isles and Ireland. Here, we’ve compiled 30 of the most intriguing historical superstitions, sourced from our newspaper collection. From the more well-known superstitions, for example, not passing underneath a ladder, or throwing spilled salt over your shoulder, to those you may not have heard of, like giving a knife along with a penny, anyone?), without any further ado, here are 30 fascinating superstitions from history for you …
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This week at The Archive we have two very special new additions – national papers the Daily Express and the Sunday Express. We are delighted to host these two very special papers right from their inaugural editions all the way up to 1999, with the two newspapers numbering over 800,000 new pages between them. In all, we have added 823,327 new pages to The Archive this week, with updates also to Sussex title the Eastbourne Gazette. So read on to …
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This week at The Archive, we’ve added an impressive 222,484 brand new pages, updating 48 existing titles and introducing 2 brand new ones! Dive in to explore our latest additions and pick up more tips and tricks on how to make the most of your research with The Archive. Register now and explore the Archive This week, we’re excited to introduce the Garstang Courier to our growing collection of digitised historic newspapers. Covering the rich heritage of Garstang, a historic …
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This week at The Archive we are delighted to welcome a duo of brand new titles to our collection, the Alnwick Guardian and County Advertiser and the Newport Pagnell Citizen, as we explore the Northumberland tradition of the kern dinner, which is held to celebrate the harvest home. Meanwhile, we have added 146,333 brand new pages to our collection in total, whilst we have updated 21 of our existing titles. So read on to discover more about our new and …
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Since August 2021, the Archive has been working in partnership with the British Library to build a collection of free to view newspaper pages. This collection enables enhanced access to the diverse newspaper holdings of the British Library, with the titles, which have carefully curated by the British Library, spanning four centuries of news and covering not just Britain and Ireland, but the Caribbean, India, and beyond. You can search our free to view pages by creating a free account …
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Today marks the release of over one million new free to view pages on the British Newspaper Archive. Thanks to our ongoing partnership with the British Library, we have now made over four million newspaper pages freely accessible since 2021. Our collection of over four million free to view newspaper pages represents a significant step in making historical resources available to more and more people, an effort to which the British Newspaper Archive and the British Library are firmly committed. …