On 20 July 2017, many of you joined us for our webinar, Journeys Through Time: Discovering Travel & Migration in Old Newspapers. In the webinar, we reviewed how to find passenger lists, emigration notices, letters from abroad, and so much more. If you were not able to attend the live webinar, you can watch it on demand through our You Tube channel. The theme of this month’s webinar was travel, thus we received many questions about early passport requirements. …
Blog Posts
A new month, a new blog post! Today we’re exploring three events that took place in August – one from 150 years ago, one from 125 years ago, and the last from 75 years ago. Michael Faraday As we kick off this month’s theme of occupations, we are happy to remember the British physicist and chemist Michael Faraday (22 September 1791-25 August 1867) who died 150 years ago this month. Of all occupations, those relating to the sciences have been …
Tags
In the last seven days, we added 182,120 pages to The Archive. This includes four new titles and additional issues to fourteen existing titles. Joining The British Newspaper Archive this week are two new titles from Wales – Abergavenny Chronicle and Tenby Observer – and one from Scotland – Milngavie and Bearsden Herald. Another new title is the Weekly Casualty Lists (War Office & Air Ministry) published during the First World War. The weekly lists printed the names of soldiers who died as well …
Tags
On 31 July 1910, Hawley Harvey Crippen, better known as Dr Crippen, and Ethel Le Neve, his typist-turned-lover, were arrested on board the Montrose while trying to flee west to Canada. On top of being a sensational case and arrest, it was the first example of an arrest aided by wireless telegraphy. A cross-Atlantic chase of a fleeing couple is an apt ending to our July theme of travel and migration. When you ask yourself why your ancestor or the …
Tags
This month in the Cookery Corner, we are taking a looking at international dishes to continue our theme of Travel & Migration. Diving into the newspapers, we uncovered recipes for Flemish Carbonnade de Boeuf, Spanish Paella Valenciana, and Canadian Maple Bread, as well as tips to cook the perfect rice and details about the fashionable war dinners in London. International dishes To launch our culinary world tour, I found an article in The Tatler with recipes from multiple countries: Italy, Spain, …
Tags
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 …
Tags
Christopher Nolan’s film Dunkirk is a powerful portrayal of the rescue of over 330,000 soldiers from the beach at Dunkirk in northern France. The film pays tribute to the role of the French and British rearguard, the RAF and the little ships all of who played their part in the evacuation. Following the events of a single day the film compresses into two hours the heroism and tragedy of the events of the nine days between 27 May – 4 …
Tags
Old newspapers regularly featured passenger lists, news from abroad, foreign destination guides and other travel-related musings, making the British Newspaper Archive the perfect research companion for anyone interested in how people moved around the world in days gone by. Register Now and View 3 FREE Pages Whether you’re a genealogist having trouble pinpointing your family’s voyage to another country or a student doing a thesis on historical migration patterns, the Archive may hold a key piece of information for your research. We’ve …
Tags
This week’s episode of Who Do You Think You Are? featured sports broadcaster Clare Balding. The episode examined the business success and intimate lives of her ancestors. Clare explored both her maternal and paternal lines in an episode which brought her into the circles of high society in both England and America. Famous names appeared from almost every document consulted as Clare examined her maternal line. This line sees Clare connected to the Earls of Derby, a lineage which stretches …
Tags
This day marks the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death. During the last two centuries, Jane Austen has become a household name. Austen and her modest-sized collection of works has enjoyed a vibrant presence in both academia and western culture, from quotes on magnets and clothing to movie adaptations and sequels to her novels. Austen’s name is equally as at home in highbrow literary essays and criticism as it is in contemporary periodicals meant for mass consumption, such as the …