The British Newspaper Archive is back with a bang to welcome in the New Year, as over the holiday season we have reached 62 million pages, having added 627,393 brand new pages to our collection, including the ‘original‘ Irish women’s magazine Lady of the House. Meanwhile, new newspaper titles join us from Buckinghamshire and Derbyshire, whilst we have updated nineteen of our existing titles, from Cambridge to Chester, from Neath to Northampton, from Ilkeston to Irvine. And by far and …
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Over the past seven days at The Archive we have added 117,702 brand new pages, with eleven brand new newspaper titles joining us over this period alone. We have added three new local titles (from Wiltshire, Buckinghamshire and Kent respectively), with eight of our new titles this week coming from the British Library’s Heritage Made Digital programme. So read on to discover more about all of our new newspapers of the week (which include amongst them four Victorian illustrated papers), as well as to find …
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This week at The Archive we have added 71,798 brand new pages to our ever growing collection, with a duo of brand new titles joining us this week too, from Cornwall and Buckinghamshire respectively. So read on to discover more about which new titles we have added, the ten titles we have updated, and also to find out more about the last moments of Mary Pearcey, condemned to death in 1890 for murder. Register now and explore the Archive The first new title of …
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This week 134,952 have joined the Archive. We have added two home counties titles for England, The East Kent Gazette and the Bucks Examiner for Buckinghamshire. We have also added to ten of our existing titles, details of those updated are in a table at the end of this post. Newspapers often change their names, as they are bought out by competitors and expand, or contract, their reach. Both of our new titles underwent name changes over the years, if …