This week at The Archive we are delighted to welcome Blackpool title the West Lancashire Evening Gazette to our collection of newspapers, as we have added 289,279 brand new pages in total over the last seven days. Meanwhile, from Belper to Bexhill, from Harrogate to Hucknall, from Melton Mowbray to Morecambe, we’ve updated 20 of our existing titles. So read on to discover more from our new and updated titles of the week, as we mark 27 years this week …
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This week at The Archive we’ve reached another milestone, as our collection now numbers 77 million pages, and we welcome yet another new newspaper to our holdings, the Peterborough Evening Telegraph. All in all this week we’ve added 272,757 brand new pages, as we use our new title the Peterborough Evening Telegraph to tell the story of the United Kingdom’s first ever victory in the Eurovision Song Contest. Meanwhile, from Buchan to Buckingham, from Halifax to Hemel Hempstead, from Lincolnshire …
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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 …