This past week we added 91,374 pages to the archive. We have added three brand new titles and pages to eight existing titles. Joining the Archive this week are two brand new titles for Ireland. The Limerick Chronicle gives news of the western seaboard of Ireland, our holdings cover both the pre and post-Famine period. The Mid-Ulster Mail was published in Tyrone and our current holdings offer insight into the period before the Great War. Joining the Archive this week …
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The Archive continues to grow at an amazing pace. We’ve added 145,914 pages to twenty-two newspapers since our last update. The archive now holds 698 newspapers for the UK and Ireland. Our additions this week include nine brand new titles and additions to thirteen existing titles. Our brand new titles this week include four titles for Scottish counties: Aberdeenshire, Lanarkshire, Angus (Forfanshire) and Wigtownshire. There are four new papers for England, two of which are from London (Fulham & Hampstead), …
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This week we’re bringing you 164,804 new pages from thirty-two newspapers from Ireland and the UK held in the collections of the British Library. This week our five brand new titles are: The Kilburn Times published in London; The Northern Constitution, also known as The Coleraine Constitution, published in Londonderry, Ireland; The Southend Standard and Essex Weekly Advertiser from Southend-on-Sea in Essex; The Staffordshire Chronicle from the county town of Stafford in Staffordshire and Wharfdale & Airdale Observer which was published …
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We added 99,354 pages to the archive this week. We have four brand new titles and additions to eleven existing titles for your reading pleasure! The four brand new titles joining the Archive this month are the Nortwich Guardian from Cheshire, The Nelson Leader from Lancashire, the Hexham Courant from Northumberland and The Ilford Recorder from London. Register now and view 3 pages for FREE Title Years Hexham Courant 1877 Ilford Recorder 1902, 1904 Nelson Leader 1929, 1931-1937 Northwich …
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Tempted though we were by the beautiful weather this week, we didn’t shirk our duties to our readers. This week we’ve added 102,418 pages to the Archive. We’ve added another two brand-new titles this week, bringing the number of newspapers on the site to an impressive 772. Joining the archive this week are the The Catholic Standard and the Croydon Guardian and Surrey County Gazette. Register now and view 3 pages for FREE The Catholic Standard describes itself as An …
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We had an exciting time this past week, the British Newspaper Archive published its twenty millionth page. We didn’t rest on our laurels and since our last update on the 8th we have published almost 100,000 new pages on the site. This week we have two brand new titles for you to explore. The Eastern Evening News joins its sister title The Eastern Morning News which we published in our push to twenty million. And The Wigan Observer and District …
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It was a bumper week here at the Archive with the addition of 202,825 new pages! 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! Since our last updated we’ve added 8 brand new titles. This week’s additions will be of particular interest to those in search of news of Aberdeenshire, Yorkshire and the Isle of Wight. You can learn more about …
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This month we are excited to bring four new titles to the British Newspaper Archive. Among the new titles are the Willesden Chronicle, published in London and the Warrington Guardian, published in Cheshire. The Archive now holds over 19.5 million pages of historic newspapers dating from the early 1700s to the early 2000s! Click on each of the titles below to learn more about the newspaper and read a Sample Issue for FREE. Willesden Chronicle 326 issues, 2650 pages Warrington …
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This month we are excited to bring five new titles to the Archive. Among the new titles are extensive runs of The Rugby Advertiser and John Bull. Also joining the archive this month were new titles for Antrim in Ireland, West Yorkshire and Norfolk. The Archive now holds over 19 million pages of historic newspapers dating from the early 1700s to the early 2000s! Click on each of the titles below to learn more about the newspaper and read a …
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March has been a great month at the Archive. We have added eight brand new titles this month including the Rutland Echo and Leicestershire Advertiser. In bringing online a newspaper for England’s smallest county we now have a newspaper for every county in England. And we won’t stop there. Our England collection will continue to grow. And watch this space for similar ‘country completion’ announcements. This month we are particularly pleased to announce the addition of issues from the 1850s …