It’s been a busy week at the Archive. We’ve added 191,119 pages to the archive. We have 13 brand new titles to share with you, and have updated 18 existing titles.
With the addition of The Leitrim Advertiser this past week we are delighted to say that we now have a newspaper for every county in Ireland. This brings the number of titles we have for Ireland to 150. This week we also added The Portadown Times for County Armagh to the Archive, and we will continue to digitise newspapers for Ireland.
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Also joining the Archive this week are nine new papers for England including two for Lancashire, and one each for Buckinghamshire, Leicestershire, Devon, Sussex, Suffolk, Berkshire, Essex. Also newly added this week is the Stornoway Gazette and West Coast Advertiser, this newspaper covers the historic area of Ross and Cromarty which includes the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides.
You can learn more about each of the titles we have added/updated this week by clicking on their names below. On each paper’s title page, you can learn more about our holdings and our plans for digitisation.
Title |
Years Added |
| Bucks Advertiser & Aylesbury News | 1860, 1872, 1874, 1890, 1912 |
| Clitheroe Advertiser and Times | 1900, 1908, 1917-1918 |
| Eastbourne Herald | 1939-1951 |
| Exmouth Journal | 1869-1910 |
| Illustrated War News | 1939 |
| Leitrim Advertiser | 1886, 1890-1899, 1901-1916 |
| Lowestoft Journal | 1874-1896, 1898-1910 |
| Market Harborough Advertiser and Midland Mail | 1892, 1898, 1904, 1921-1923 |
| Morecambe Guardian | 1922, 1924, 1927-1929 |
| Newbury Weekly News and General Advertiser | 1870-1872 |
| Portadown Times | 1922-1941, 1954-1956 |
| Saffron Walden Weekly News | 1891, 1896-1897 |
| Stornoway Gazette and West Coast Advertiser | 1950 |
Updated Titles
This week we added additional years to eighteen existing titles. We added significantly to four of our long-standing titles: The Woolwich Gazette and Greenwich and Deptford Chronicle was first added to the archive in 2015, we have now added a further twenty-four years to the title. The Salisbury and Winchester Journal joined the archive in 2012, we have now added an additional twenty-three years to this long running Wiltshire title.
Two London papers also had substantial additions. The West London Observer had an unbroken run from 1916 to 1952 added, and the East London Observer gained almost fifty years of new issues.
Title |
Years added |
| Annandale Observer and Advertiser | 1887-1888 |
| Belfast News-Letter | 1930 |
| Colchester Gazette | 1880, 1889 |
| Croydon Guardian and Surrey County Gazette | 1879-1896, 1898-1909 |
| East London Observer | 1880-1928 |
| Eastern Daily Press | 1890, 1908 |
| Kentish Independent | 1871-1910 |
| Leinster Independent | 1871 |
| Northern Constitution | 1900-1907 |
| Poor Law Unions’ Gazette | 1875-1887, 1889-1900, 1902-1903 |
| Salisbury and Winchester Journal | 1873-1876, 1878-1888, 1890-1896, 1898 |
| Shields Daily News | 1877 |
| South London Chronicle | 1879-1890, 1892, 1895-1907 |
| Volunteer Service Gazette and Military Dispatch | 1885 |
| West London Observer | 1916-1952 |
| Woolwich Gazette | 1877, 1898-1899 |
| Woolwich Gazette and Greenwich and Deptford Chronicle | 1873, 1875-1876, 1878-1888, 1891-1892, 1895-1897, 1900, 1902-1903 |
| Yarmouth Mercury | 1884, 1889 |
You can keep up to date with all the latest additions by visiting the recently added page. You can even discover what we’re going to add tomorrow!
