Anyone starting to research their Irish heritage has heard the story: ‘all of their records were destroyed in 1922’. The destruction of the Four Courts on 30 June 1922, which housed the public records office, was a huge loss… but! with digitisation, Irish family history is getting easier by the day. Sites like our sister site Findmypast are opening up new avenues of research by digitising a wide variety of sources, and many of their Irish collections are free! Newspapers …
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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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Exploring Welsh newspapers Here on The British Newspaper Archive, we hold 71 Welsh newspapers. With an ever-growing collection, it is useful to periodically check our titles page to see what has been added. To assist in this, you can narrow your newspaper title search by country, allowing you to quickly see what papers are available for a given country: This nifty feature allows you to narrow your search to just the historic newspapers from Wales (or Ireland, Scotland, or England). This …
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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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The Pankhurst family was full of activists. In researching the suffrage movement in England, you are bound to come across Christabel Pankhurst and her mother, Emmeline. As part of her activities in the name of women’s right to vote, Christabel was the editor of the newspaper The Suffragette. [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”37″ gal_title=”Christabel Pankhurst”] Subscribe today and discover more stories on the suffrage movement
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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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Alice Maud Mary Arncliffe-Sennett was an energetic militant suffragette, determined to fight for women’s suffrage even if that meant getting arrested and going against prominent leaders such as Emmeline Pankhurst and Milicent Fawcett. Through the newspapers, we can find details about Arncliffe-Sennett’s life, career, and activism. Alice, or Maud as she was often called, lived in London and worked as an actress. Her stage name was Mary Kingsley. Here is a review by The Era of her performance as Lady MacBeth in ‘that …
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This year, in recognition of the centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918, we will showcase the lives and activities of women involved in the Suffrage movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Despite making headlines for their activities many of these women are now forgotten. In this blog post we will revive the memory of Irish Suffragette, Anna Garvey Kelly, whose support of the cause of Suffrage saw her spend a month in Holloway prison …
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Grace Boutelle was an American activist involved in the suffrage movement in England. For a time, Boutelle resided in England and, in her efforts to support the movement, was arrested alongside her fellow activists. Explore findings from our English newspapers and, from our sister-site Findmypast, newspapers from the United States. Click on an image below to enlarge then use the arrows to move image by image throughout the collection. In the image viewer, you can also make an image full-screen, …
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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 …