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Hot Off The Press – New Titles This Week

This week at The Archive we are delighted to welcome two brand new newspaper titles, the Bicester Review and the Warwick Courier, to our collection, as we mark 35 years since the passing of legendary British actor Laurence Olivier on 11 July 1989. Meanwhile, we have added 320,851 brand new newspaper pages in all over the last seven days, whilst from Barnoldswick to Biggleswade, from Kirriemuir to Knaresborough, from Peterborough to Portadown, we’ve updated 21 of our existing titles from

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Hot Off The Press – New Titles This Week

This week we are stopping off in sunny Sussex to welcome brand new title the Shoreham Herald to our collection, alongside 111,501 brand new newspaper pages. Meanwhile, from all across the United Kingdom, from Scotland, Northern Ireland and England, we’ve updated ten of our existing titles. So read on to discover more about our new and updated titles of the week, and also to learn about the town of Shoreham’s ties to the early British film industry, when it was

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Hot Off The Press – New Titles This Week

We’re kicking off the New Year with a bang, as we welcome 56,730 brand new pages to The Archive, which include a cracker of a new title, the Coleraine Times. Meanwhile, from Bromley to Buxton, from Wharfedale to Worthing, we’ve updated eleven of our existing titles from across the United Kingdom and Ireland. So, as we wish our subscribers, friends and followers a very happy New Year, we also present to you our first new and updated titles of 2024.

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Hot Off The Press – New Titles This Week

This week we have reached another milestone in our digitisation journey, as we have reached 73 million pages at The Archive, whilst we explore an early festive film, the Christmas Burglars. Not only have we added an early cinema title to our collection, we have also added a new title from England’s north-east, namely the Blyth News Post Leader, as we have added 127,786 brand new pages in all to our collection over the last seven days. This is our

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Hot Off The Press – New Titles This Week

This week at The Archive we have added another 160,900 brand new pages to our collection, as we welcome new newspapers from Newtownabbey in Northern Ireland, alongside new titles from the Berkshire area. Meanwhile, from Bracknell to Belfast, from Somerset to Scotland, we’ve updated a range of our existing titles. So read on to discover more about our wonderful new and updated titles of the week. This week also marks 28 years since Irish actor Pierce Brosnan made his debut

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Celebrating Princess Kouka and Her Forgotten Film Legacy

In the late 1930s a newcomer made her way onto British cinema screens: Princess Kouka. From Sudan, Princess Kouka, born Tahia Ibrahim Belal, had been spotted by film producer Walter Futter, who was determined for her to appear in his next film. Using newspapers from the time, we uncover the legacy of this largely forgotten film star, who travelled to Britain and impressed audiences across the country. ‘A Notable Newcomer’ On 18 December 1936 London’s Daily News reported on the

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Hot Off The Press – New Titles This Week

This week we’re celebrating the history of cinema with the arrival of a brand new title, Glasgow’s Scottish Cinema, alongside 96,538 brand new pages. Meanwhile, from Ballymena to Bolton, from Belfast to Brighton, from Derry to Downham Market, we’ve updated 22 of our existing titles from across the United Kingdom, Ireland and beyond. So read on to discover more about all of our new and updated titles of the week, and also to learn about the marriage of Hollywood’s first

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Hot Off The Press – New Titles This Week

This week at The Archive we have been busy adding a staggering 706,009 brand new newspaper pages, including the addition of best-selling Scottish newspaper Thomson’s Weekly News and some specialist sporting titles. We’ve added eleven brand new titles to our collection in all this week, with new titles joining us from Cork, Cumbria and Camden. Meanwhile, from Accrington to Aldershot, from Dorking to Dorset, from Ealing to East Kilbride, we’ve updated 82 of our existing titles from across the United

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Hot Off The Press – New Titles This Week

This week at The Archive we have been busy going to the pictures, with thousands more pages added to our film fan magazine the Picturegoer. Meanwhile, we’ve also added more pages to historic Birmingham title the Birmingham Mail, as we’ve added 9,706 brand new pages in total to our collection over the past seven days. So read on to discover more about our two updated titles of the week, and also to learn all about the first ever Golden Globes

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Hot Off The Press – New Titles This Week

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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