We have added an additional 75,144 pages to the Archive in the past week. Having added significantly to our Suffrage titles recently we are now turning our attention back to county titles. We have added two brand new titles this week and made updates to fourteen existing titles. You can look forward to more suffrage and women’s lifestyle publications over the course of the year, and our latest new titles reflect this commitment to showcasing women’s history. We have added …
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This past week we released 105,098 pages to The Archive. In time for International Women’s Day we are thrilled to add nine new titles to our Suffragette Collection. We have also updated four existing titles including The Globe for which we now have editions spanning 1804 to 1921, and our recently added Scottish title The North Star and Farmer’s Chronicle for which we now have a run from 1893 to 1911. Our new titles represent the full spectrum of the …
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This week we’ve focused on updating five existing titles. We added 112,400 pages to The Archive this past week. Our most notable addition was twelve years to the Daily Mirror. This week’s additions to the Daily Mirror bring this iconic title up to 1979. The 1970s were the heyday of the tabloid. Physically smaller than broadsheets, tabloids had emerged after the Second World War and established themselves throughout the 1950s and 60s as an alternative to a formal, middle-class press. …
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Our additions this week tipped us over the 24 million page mark at The Archive. At the time of writing (it changes so fast these days!) we have 24,096,659 pages for your reading pleasure. This week we’ve added four brand new titles, two for Ireland and two for England. Our new joiners this week include The Bromyard News, this Herefordshire paper also carried news for west Worcestershire. We plan to publish editions from 1883 to 1903. By 1899 the paper …
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We’ve added 210,632 historical newspaper pages to the Archive in the last seven days. The latest additions include one brand new title – North Star and Farmers’ Chronicle. This Scottish paper was founded in 1893 and still exists today, now simply known as North Star. The paper mainly covers the old county of Ross & Cromarty taking in the towns of Dingwall, Tain, Alness and Invergordon. 835 issues of North Star and Farmers’ Chronicle, containing over 6,400 pages have been released spanning the years 1895-1903 and 1905-1911. …
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It’s been a lovely week at The Archive. We announced the arrival of The Suffragette to The Archive, added another three brand new titles and revisited several dozen titles, bringing them all one year forward. This week our brand new titles are for the counties of Cheshire and Worcestershire in England, and Monmouthshire (Gwent) in Wales. By 1859 The Congleton & Macclesfield Mercury, and Cheshire General Advertiser was describing itself as ‘illustrated’. The paper, like many of the period, was …
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This year, 2018, is the 100 year anniversary of the Representation of the People Act 1918. The Act which gave propertied women over the age of thirty, and all men over the age of twenty-one, the right to vote. Over the course of 2018 we aim to digitise several suffragette and women’s newspapers. These papers will allow us to explore the suffrage movement, and the social sphere of the women who campaigned for the right to vote. We are delighted …
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This week we have added 91,496 pages to The Archive. We have added four brand new titles, and updated six existing titles. This week we’ve added social and satirical titles for the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. These titles offered light relief, political commentary, and all the day’s gossip and fashion. Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday ‘being a selection, side-splitting, sentimental, and serious for the benefit of old boys, young boys, odd boys generally, and even girls’ featured a …
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This week we spent some time consolidating our existing titles. We have updates to ten existing titles including the ever popular Lloyd’s List. We have added 97,426 pages in the last 7 days. We have added one brand new title to The Archive: The West Middlesex Herald. With over 1,500 issues spanning 1855 to 1895 this is a valuable addition to The Archive for the mid to late Victorian period. We have this paper from its first edition on …
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It’s been another excellent week at The Archive. We’ve added 164,490 pages this past week. We have two brand new titles for you to explore and have added new years to five existing titles. Our new titles this week are two Bristol papers, The Bristol Daily Post and The Clifton and Redland Free Press. This brings to nine the number of papers we have which were published in the city of Bristol. Click here to see the full list. In …