This week at The Archive we are delighted that iconic story magazine the People’s Friend has become our friend, as we are joined by the first 59 years of the long-running Scottish title. Before we delve into the history of the wonderful People’s Friend, and explore one of its first ever stories, ‘Faithful and True,’ which appeared on its inaugural front page on 13 January 1869, we also wanted to celebrate the addition of 291,950 brand new pages, which have …
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As we step into the New Year here at The Archive we’re delighted to welcome two brand new titles – the Cannock Chase Chronicle and the Walsall Chronicle – to our collection, as we’ve added 469,636 brand new pages to our Archive over the last few weeks. That’s right, over the festive period we’ve been busily adding new newspaper titles and pages to our repository, with 41 of our existing titles being updated too. So, from Beverley to Buckingham, from …
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This week at The Archive we have put in a sterling effort as we have now reached over 87 million pages, having added 299,609 brand new pages in all, alongside two brand new titles (the Rotherham Advertiser and the Stirling Journal and Advertiser), as we get into the festive spirit by exploring an Edwardian Christmas. That’s not all, as from Brechin to Bridgnorth, from Crawley to Cumbernauld, from Larne to Leamington Spa, we’ve updated 22 of our existing titles from …
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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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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 …