This October we’re exploring the historical superstitions and traditions from across the British Isles and Ireland. Here, we’ve compiled 30 of the most intriguing historical superstitions, sourced from our newspaper collection. From the more well-known superstitions, for example, not passing underneath a ladder, or throwing spilled salt over your shoulder, to those you may not have heard of, like giving a knife along with a penny, anyone?), without any further ado, here are 30 fascinating superstitions from history for you …
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May is the month of that major event in Europe’s (and now Australia’s) musical calendar: the Eurovision Song Contest. Love it, loath it, or patiently tolerate it, the Eurovision Song Contest has been making headlines ever since its first competition, held nearly 70 years ago in Lugano, Switzerland. And now, using British and Irish newspapers from our collection, we take a peak into the annals of Eurovision history, assembling headlines from the first ever contest in 1956 all the way …
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This week at The Archive we have added an incredible 304,139 brand new pages to our collection, as well as one brand new newspaper from Northern Ireland, which sheds light on the discovery of Tullylish monastery in County Down. Meanwhile, from Arbroath to Aylesbury, from Belfast to Banbury, from Wolverhampton to Worthing, we have updated 22 of our existing titles from across England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. So read on to discover more about our new and updated titles of …
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This week at The Archive we’ve added one brand new title to our collection – the Brighouse Echo – alongside 174,403 brand new pages from across the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Caribbean, as we look forward to St Patrick’s Day on 17 March. Meanwhile, from Belfast to Biggleswade, from Denbigh to Dominica, from St Andrews to Saint Lucia, we’ve updated 57 of our existing titles. So read on to discover more about this week’s new title, West Yorkshire’s Brighouse …
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As we enter the second week of the New Year, we’ve added 50,963 brand new pages to our collection, with updates to such titles as the Dublin Leader and the Nottingham Evening Post. From Berkshire to Bradford, from Devizes to Downham Market, from Galway to Guernsey, we’ve updated twelve of our existing titles from England, Ireland and even the Channel Islands. Read on to find out which of our wonderful twelve newspapers we have updated this week. Meanwhile, you can …
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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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This week at The Archive we have added 5 brand new Irish titles to our collection, including the Constabulary Gazette, which was the ‘accredited organ of the Royal Irish Constabulary.’ Meanwhile, our other Irish titles cover the counties of Kerry and Wexford, whilst we have added 52,710 brand new pages in all to The Archive over the past seven days. So read on to discover more about our new Irish titles of the week, and also to learn about the …
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This week at The Archive we are illuminating Irish history with the addition of three brand new Irish newspapers, from Dublin, Limerick and Kerry. Meanwhile, over the past seven days, we have added a total of 122,848 brand new pages, whilst we have also updated five of our existing titles from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. So read on to discover more about all of our new and updated titles of the week, as well as to learn …
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Following on from reaching our wonderful milestone of 50 million newspapers pages last week, which you can read more about here, we have added an incredible 534,520 brand new newspaper pages to The Archive over the last seven days. Making up a portion of these half a million brand new newspaper pages are seventeen brand new newspaper titles from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, whilst we have also updated 102 of our existing titles. So read on to find out more about all of our new newspaper titles of …
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We may be on the run up to Christmas now, but here at The Archive we have been as busy as ever, adding 140,040 brand new newspaper pages over the past seven days, with the addition of eight brand new titles from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland over the last week. Meanwhile, we have updated fifteen of our existing titles, including updates to some of our recently added titles too. So read on to discover more about all of our new titles of the week, and to …