This week at The Archive has been another busy one, as we have added 473,524 brand new pages to our collection, with one brand new title joining us, as well as updates to 23 of our existing titles, with new pages joining the likes of The Tatler and the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. Furthermore, from Banbridge to Buckingham, from Morpeth to Motherwell, from South Shields to Shrewsbury, our updated titles this week hail from across England, Scotland and Northern …
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This week at The Archive we are delighted to welcome a trio of brand new titles: namely the Trinidad Royal Gazette, the Telford Journal and the Dudley & District Chronicle, as we have added an incredible 840,335 brand new pages to our collection. Meanwhile, we have updated 32 of our existing titles from across Scotland and England. So read on to learn more about our new and updated titles of the week, and also to discover more about Trinidad and …
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Sent to the front lines, soldiers in the First World War could only communicate home through letters. Although censored, these letters provided comfort to both those at home and those fighting in the trenches, and they were often reproduced by local newspapers. In this special blog, we’ve pulled out extracts from 30 different letters, sent by servicemen throughout the First World War, which were all featured by our newspapers. These 30 letters, sent by 30 different men, all provide a …
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This week at The Archive we’ve added 122,203 brand new pages to our collection, as we mark 41 years since one of the largest robberies in British history: the Brink’s-Mat robbery, in which £25 million worth of gold bullion was stolen from an industrial estate near Heathrow Airport. Meanwhile, we’ve updated two of our existing titles this week, with new pages joining the Alnwick Guardian and County Advertiser and the Daily Record. Register now and explore the Archive Founded in …
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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 …