This week at The Archive we have added 39,811 brand new pages to our collection, with four brand new titles joining us, including a Devon duo of new newspapers alongside new publications from Sussex and Norfolk. Meanwhile, from Haverhill to Huddersfield, from Salford to South London, we have updated eight of our existing titles. So read on to discover more about all of our new and updated titles of the week, as well as to find out more about the …
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This week at The Archive we have added 407,285 brand new pages, whilst we’re delighted to welcome London’s first ever halfpenny newspaper the Echo to our collection, one of the eight brand new newspapers that have joined us over the past seven days. Meanwhile, as the World Cup plays out in Qatar, we’ve added a brand new specialist football title from Portsmouth, as well as important Scottish Sunday newspaper the Sunday Mail (Glasgow). We’ve not neglected our existing titles either. …
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We are excited to bring you another 305,497 newspaper pages. We have brought you a massive update to over 120 of our existing titles plus eleven brand-new titles. The new titles span 140 years of history with the latest title New Observer of Bristol published in 1994. This week’s incredible release brings us stories of local writers and royal weddings. We can read about history as it happened and track the progress of women’s rights and the American civil …
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‘Up to about forty or fifty years ago travelling was a solemn act, not to be enterprised nor taken in hand unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly,’ so writes the Belfast News-Letter in September 1888. But all of this had changed; from the inception of the railways ‘day excursions’ had become ‘entirely modern pleasures,’ the British seaside and countryside opened up to visitors who could travel there easily by train. This was the railway revolution, which opened up the seaside to ordinary, working class people. …
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Pages from the British Newspaper Archive abound with reports of crimes and their perpetrators, and some of the most intriguing of these are the UK’s unsolved murder cases, where a verdict of ‘murder by person or persons unknown’ has been reached. In this special blog, we explore five of the most notorious unsolved murders from UK history, ranging from the Thames mystery of the late 1880s, which came to be overshadowed by the Jack the Ripper killings, to the strange …
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‘What Pompeii was to the Romans…Brighton is to Londoners,’ comments an article on the famous British seaside town in the Penny Illustrated Paper, 10 August 1889. Using articles, photographs and illustrations from The Archive, in this special blog we will take a look at the history of this ‘Queen of Watering-places,’ from its establishment as a health resort in the eighteenth century, its growth as a fashionable destination thanks to the Prince Regent, to its railway heyday, and its infamous …
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Over the past seven days, we’ve added 17,122 pages to The British Newspaper Archive. These additions include three brand new titles as well as additions to three existing titles. For the first time ever, we offer articles from these three English papers: Alcester Chronicle (published in Alcester, Warwickshire), Eastern Daily Press (published in Norfolk, Norwich), and Ripley and Heanor News and Ilkeston Division Free Press (published in Ripley, Derbyshire). Register today and view 3 free pages! By clicking on the titles below, you can …
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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 …
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The first shipments of tea arrived in Britain from India 175 years ago today. You’ll find numerous adverts and articles about tea in The British Newspaper Archive, including this charming illustration of an aquatic tea party in 1881: View the whole newspaper page The Graphic – Saturday 22 October 1881 Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.