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Hot Off The Press – New Titles This Week

This week at The Archive, as well as reaching an incredible 85 million newspaper pages, we are also delighted to welcome new pages to the world’s longest-running country and field magazine, and one of Britain’s oldest magazines, The Field. That’s not all, we’ve also added one brand new title to our collection this week, the Worksop Guardian, with updates to fourteen of our existing titles, as 169,756 new pages join us in all. So read on to discover more about

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Hot Off The Press – New Titles This Week

This week at The Archive we are delighted to bring iconic British weekly lifestyle magazine Country Life to life, with the publication of over a century’s worth of content from this very special countryside title. Meanwhile, we’ve added 509,799 brand new pages to our Archive, meaning that we have reached a landmark 75 million pages, which are now all available to search. So read on to discover more about Country Life, as we explore how the magazine was founded, examine

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Hamlet Histories and Village Tales – Uncovering Rural Local History on The Archive

So far this November we’ve been celebrating all things local history, and earlier this month we brought you a guide on how to discover more about the history of your street. But now we turn from urban to rural, as we take a look at how to uncover the history of those places where there might only be one street, the hamlets and the villages of the United Kingdom. This blog, therefore, will show you how to uncover local history

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