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Hot off the Press – New titles this week

 

We are excited to bring you another 305,497 newspaper pages.  We have brought you a massive update to over 120 of our existing titles plus eleven brand-new titles.  The new titles span 140 years of history with the latest title New Observer of Bristol published in 1994. This week’s incredible release brings us stories of local writers and royal weddings.  We can read about history as it happened and track the progress of women’s rights and the American civil war.

 

Bristol Observer Masthead

 

We have brought you two new titles from the 1990s.  The Holderness Advertiser is filled with stories about local residents and feel-good stories.  Including the unique story about local resident Nigel who enjoyed walking his pet ferrets.  The New Observer (Bristol)  was a Friday newspaper filled with local news and newspapers.   It was published every week with stories about local artists, holiday schemes and even a report of a gas explosion. Each edition included a local diary providing a full list of all the local events in the area like charity fundraisers or lecturers.   We found a report from 1994 about local resident and recently published author, Mavis Danks.  Danks published her memoir about working in the Women’s Timber Corp, titled Lumber Jill.

‘Mavis was among the first to be assigned to the corps which was set up to release men from the forest and sawmills to fight the war….felling trees for pit props, barricades, telegraph poles, barricades and railway sleepers.’

Newpaper article of local resident with her new book about the Timber Corps
New Observer (Bristol) | 6 May 1994

 

The Worcester Daily Times and Journal brings us news of royalty gossip alongside international events and local happenings.  In 1898, the Worcester Daily Times reported on the warm congratulations from the Queen to the Earl of Coventry on the occasion of his daughter’s wedding.  Lady Anne Blanche Coventry married Prince Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh.  The article continued on to report that the true love match did run smoothly at first.

Article from the Worcester Times about the wedding of Prince Victor and Lady Coventry
Worcester Daily Times and Journal | 4 January 1898

 

‘There was considerable opposition to the match, which was mainly overcome by the perseverance of the bridegroom and the kindly intervention of the Prince of Wales.’

 

 

Another new title we have added is the Brighton Argus from 1910.  The newspaper brings you all the local news and intrigue from murder charges to a bicycle their being captured.  The articles are short but no less exciting.  We also love the pages of classified advertisements available.

Further North, we have published the Halstead Gazette.  This weekly Essex newspaper gives you longer-form articles.  In the first issue of the Halstead Gazette we have available online, the paper announced that the new provisions of the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act were to come into effect.  The new provisions advanced the rights of women and protected their property and earnings from deserted husbands or their deserted husbands’ creditors.  The passing of this act marked a milestone in women’s rights.

Married women's right to property
Halstead Gazette | 7 January 1858

 

We have brought you two brand new Welsh newspapers, the Pembrokeshire Herald Local newspapers are excellent for discovering local birth, marriage and death records.  Another local title we have added is the Andover Advertiser and North West Hants Gazette of Hampshire.  Regional papers will also provide you will excellent details about local events, such as

Newspaper clip of a lecture at Whitchurch town hall
Andover Advertiser and North West Hants Gazette | 17 October 1862

the lecture that took place at Whitchurch town hall on homoeopathy.  ‘A lecture was delivered at the Town hall on ‘Homeopathy’ H F Fountain, Esq.  The lecturer riveted the attention of a delighted audience with his forcible address and well times illustrations.’

We have also published the Haverfordwest & Milford Haven Telegraph.  The 28 December issue from 1853 celebrated the incredible achievement of the opening of the South Wales Railway to Haverford.

 

 

The Boston Gazette, the latest Saturday newspaper from Lincolnshire, brings us both international and domestic news.  The incredible pages from 1861 show early reporting of the American Civil War.  At the time the world was yet to understand the scale of the conflict.  The Boston Gazette had the headline ‘Revolution in the United States’ and reprinted a letter from an Alabama resident.  The American described the events when the Alabama governor ordered the ceasing of the state arsenal.  There were also reports of forts in Mississippi and Florida being attacked.  You can read history as it happened.

Newspaper clipping about the early days of the American Civil War
Boston Gazette | 9 February 1861

 

 

 

New Titles

We have added eleven new titles to The Archive.

Title Year Range
Andover Advertiser and North West Hants Gazette1862
Boston Gazette1861
Brighton Argus1910
Halstead Gazette1858-1859, 1869
Haverfordwest & Milford Haven Telegraph1854, 1862, 1877
Holderness Advertiser1995
Ilkley Free Press1890
New Observer (Bristol)1994
Pembrokeshire Herald1865, 1871
Torquay Chronicle and South Devon Advertiser1862
Worcester Daily Times and Journal1898

 

Updated Titles

This week we bring you a massive update to 121 of our existing titles.

You can learn more about each of the titles we add to every week by clicking on their names. On each paper’s title page, you can read a FREE sample issue, and learn more about our current holdings, and our plans for digitisation.

TitleYears Added
Ayr Advertiser1892
Barnsley Telephone1911
Belfast Weekly News1855
Belper & Alfreton Chronicle1898
Berkshire Chronicle1913
Beverley Advertiser1993
Beverley Guardian1862, 1879
Billingham & Norton Advertiser1994
Birmingham Daily Post1910, 1996-1998
Birmingham Mail1964, 1968, 1971, 1974-1976, 1978, 1997
Blackburn Standard1897
Bognor Regis Observer1880
Border Advertiser1890
Boston Spa News1879
Boston Target1994
Bracknell Times1999
Bray and South Dublin Herald1915
Bridlington Free Press1862
Brighton Herald1861-1862
Buckinghamshire Examiner1999
Burntwood Mercury1993
Burton Daily Mail1998
Buxton Advertiser1878
Cambridge Daily News1997
Cambridge Town Crier1988-1989
Carlow Post1877
Carmarthen Journal1999
Caterham Mirror1986
Chelsea News and General Advertiser1994
Chorley Standard and District Advertiser1885-1886
Crosby Herald1994
Croydon Times1885-1887, 1890
Daily Record1997
Dewsbury Reporter1889, 1897-1898, 1900
Dorset County Chronicle1875, 1877, 1889
Dover Express1993
Dublin Shipping and Mercantile Gazette1869-1870
East Cleveland Herald & Post1994
Eddowes’s Shrewsbury Journal1861, 1876
Fife News1883
Fraserburgh Herald and Northern Counties’ Advertiser1950
Galloway News and Kirkcudbrightshire Advertiser1995
Glasgow Evening Times1880
Grimsby Daily Telegraph1999
Haddingtonshire Courier1892
Halifax Evening Courier1877
Harrogate Herald1857
Hawick News and Border Chronicle1890
Hemel Hempstead Gazette and West Herts Advertiser1889
Herts Guardian1879
Hinckley Herald & Journal1993
Hinckley Times1999
Hoddesdon and Broxbourne Mercury1999
Huddersfield Daily Examiner1999
Huntingdon Town Crier1988
Ireland’s Saturday Night1930
Isle of Wight Mercury1856
Kelso Mail1892
Kent & Sussex Courier1993
Lancashire Evening Post1922-1923
Lancaster Guardian1869, 1919-1920, 1924
Leigh Chronicle and Weekly District Advertiser1877, 1879
Liverpool Mercury1872
Londonderry Sentinel1849-1850
Long Eaton Advertiser1999
Loughborough Mail1999
Ludlow Advertiser1910-1911
Maghull & Aintree Star1993
Man of Ross and General Advertiser1862
Market Rasen Weekly Mail1857, 1862, 1889
Merthyr Express1993
Middlesbrough Herald & Post1994
North Wales Weekly News1993-1994
Northampton Herald & Post1993
Norwich Mercury1889
Nottingham Review1811-1817
Nuneaton Chronicle1950-1956
Oadby & Wigston Mail1999
Ormskirk Advertiser1993
Ossett Observer1866
Peterborough Advertiser1862, 1872
Pontypridd Observer1990
Prescot Reporter1879
Retford, Worksop, Isle of Axholme and Gainsborough News1873
Ruislip & Northwood Gazette1994
Scottish Press1855
Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser1994
Sheffield Daily News1856, 1858
South Bucks Free Press1856
South Western Star1950-1962
Southport Visiter1993
Sports Argus1997
Staffordshire Newsletter1999
Staines Informer1993
Stanmore Observer1993
Sunbury & Shepperton Herald1993
Surrey Gazette1878
Surrey Herald1992
Surrey Mirror1993, 1995
Sutton Coldfield Observer1993-1994
Sydenham Times1872
Tenby Observer1879
Thame Gazette1889
The People1989
Torbay Express and South Devon Echo1923
Torquay Directory and South Devon Journal1855, 1864
Uttoxeter Newsletter1992-1993
Uxbridge Informer1993
Uxbridge Leader1993
Waltham Abbey and Cheshunt Weekly Telegraph1876
Walton & Weybridge Informer1995
Warwick and Warwickshire Advertiser1857, 1862
Waterford Mirror and Tramore Visitor1860
Wellingborough & Rushden Herald & Post1995
Wetherby News1857
Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald1994
Witness (Belfast)1901, 1930
Wokingham Times1999
Wrexham Guardian and Denbighshire and Flintshire Advertiser1879
Y Gwyliedydd1884, 1888, 1890, 1893-1894
Yarmouth Mercury1912

 

 

 

 

 

 

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