This week at The Archive we have two very special new additions – national papers the Daily Express and the Sunday Express. We are delighted to host these two very special papers right from their inaugural editions all the way up to 1999, with the two newspapers numbering over 800,000 new pages between them. In all, we have added 823,327 new pages to The Archive this week, with updates also to Sussex title the Eastbourne Gazette. So read on to …
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This week at The Archive, we’ve added an impressive 222,484 brand new pages, updating 48 existing titles and introducing 2 brand new ones! Dive in to explore our latest additions and pick up more tips and tricks on how to make the most of your research with The Archive. Register now and explore the Archive This week, we’re excited to introduce the Garstang Courier to our growing collection of digitised historic newspapers. Covering the rich heritage of Garstang, a historic …
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This week at The Archive we are delighted to welcome a duo of brand new titles to our collection, the Alnwick Guardian and County Advertiser and the Newport Pagnell Citizen, as we explore the Northumberland tradition of the kern dinner, which is held to celebrate the harvest home. Meanwhile, we have added 146,333 brand new pages to our collection in total, whilst we have updated 21 of our existing titles. So read on to discover more about our new and …
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Since August 2021, the Archive has been working in partnership with the British Library to build a collection of free to view newspaper pages. This collection enables enhanced access to the diverse newspaper holdings of the British Library, with the titles, which have carefully curated by the British Library, spanning four centuries of news and covering not just Britain and Ireland, but the Caribbean, India, and beyond. You can search our free to view pages by creating a free account …
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Today marks the release of over one million new free to view pages on the British Newspaper Archive. Thanks to our ongoing partnership with the British Library, we have now made over four million newspaper pages freely accessible since 2021. Our collection of over four million free to view newspaper pages represents a significant step in making historical resources available to more and more people, an effort to which the British Newspaper Archive and the British Library are firmly committed. …
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This week at The Archive we are delighted to welcome brand new title the Cleckheaton & Spenborough Guardian, as we mark 57 years since the launch of Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth 2, fondly known as the QE2, on 20 September 1967. Meanwhile, we have added another 304,934 brand new pages to our collection, whilst we have updated 50 of our existing titles from across the United Kingdom. So read on to discover more about our new and updated titles of …
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This week at The Archive we are delighted to welcome Blackpool title the West Lancashire Evening Gazette to our collection of newspapers, as we have added 289,279 brand new pages in total over the last seven days. Meanwhile, from Belper to Bexhill, from Harrogate to Hucknall, from Melton Mowbray to Morecambe, we’ve updated 20 of our existing titles. So read on to discover more from our new and updated titles of the week, as we mark 27 years this week …
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This week at The Archive we are going back to school with the addition of a duo of new scholastic titles, the Educational Times and the Woman Teacher. As if that wasn’t exciting enough, we’ve added another new title, the Argyllshire Advertiser, whilst we’ve also now surpassed the 83 million pages mark, as we have added a total of 258,481 brand new pages over the last week alone. Meanwhile, from Belfast to Beverley, from Derry to Durham, from Peterborough to …
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This week at The Archive we’re delighted to welcome a duo of brand new titles to our collection, as we look back to the launch of Worcestershire sauce by another duo, John Lea and William Perrins, on 28 August 1837. Meanwhile, from Ballymena to Bognor Regis, from Eastbourne to Epworth, from Skegness to South Shields, we have updated 21 of our existing titles from across England and Northern Ireland. In all, we’ve added 279,027 brand new pages to The Archive …
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Just when did ‘Brits abroad’ get their bad reputation? And when did the phrase enter the vernacular? In this special blog, we explore the shocking history of the ‘Brits abroad’ stereotype, and learn how although this group of badly behaving tourists got their name in the 1980s, the British abroad have a long history of causing upset on their travels. Last week, we looked at the rise of Brits travelling abroad using our newspapers, and this week, again using newspapers …