To mark St Andrew’s Day this year, the day that celebrates the patron saint of Scotland, we’ve added a very special brand new title to The Archive, Scotland on Sunday, alongside 218,837 brand new pages from across the United Kingdom. That’s not it, we’ve also added one wonderfully named title from the county of Worcestershire, the Kidderminster Shuttle, whilst we’ve updated our existing titles from Carrickfergus to Croydon, from Coleshill to Crowthorne. So read on to discover more about our …
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As it’s the height of spooky season we’re exploring the history of Halloween at The Archive, with the help of the 93,381 brand new pages that we have added to our collection over the last seven days. Meanwhile, we’re delighted to welcome one brand new newspaper title to The Archive, which is the Middlesex & Surrey Gazette, whilst we have made exciting updates to some of our existing titles from across Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. So read on to …
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This week at The Archive is a Scotsman special as we have added over 400,000 brand new pages to this seminal Scottish newspaper, spanning the years 1951 to 2002. We are delighted, furthermore, to announce the extension of our partnership with The Scotsman publishers National World, which will see many millions of new pages join our collection in the months and years to come. And that’s not all this week. Overall, we have added 572,692 brand new pages to our …
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This week at The Archive our presses have been whirring to bring you 89,176 brand new pages, some of which illuminate the opening of the fourth Eddystone Lighthouse in May 1882. As if this wasn’t enough, we’ve also added six brand new titles this week, which cover nearly 600 miles across England and Scotland. Meanwhile, we’ve also updated six of our existing titles, with significant updates for the Kent town of Sheerness. So read on to find out more about …
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This week at The Archive we have added brand new newspapers from Wiltshire, as well as one very special new Scottish title, as we have added 221,850 brand new pages in all to our collection. Meanwhile, from Hammersmith to Haverhill, from South Wales to Southall, from Newmarket to Newquay, we’ve added new pages to our existing titles from across the British Isles. So read on to discover more about all of our new and updated titles of the week, and …
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This week at The Archive we’re delving into occupation history with the addition of two special employment related titles, the Licensed Victuallers’ Guardian and the Situation and London Advertiser. We’ve also added three brand new Scottish titles to our collection over the past seven days, alongside new publications from Cheshire and Northamptonshire. So read on to learn how aging licensed victuallers were chosen to be admitted to the Licensed Victuallers’ Asylum at the Old Kent Road, a building which consisted …
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This week at The Archive we are delighted to bring you three brand new titles from across England, Wales and Scotland, as we welcome 294,073 brand new pages to our collection this week. Meanwhile, from Aberdare to Aldershot, from Dorking to Dumfries, from Neath to Nottingham, we have updated 73 of our existing titles from across the British Isles. Read on to discover more about all of our new and updated titles of the week, and also to learn about a devastating fire which ravaged a model lodging house in Glasgow …
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Today we have reached a landmark of 50 million pages all now available to search on the British Newspaper Archive. That’s 50 million pages of news stories that span four centuries, from 1699 to 2009, that come from the United Kingdom and Ireland, and beyond. And we’re not stopping here – we plan to add millions more pages over the coming weeks, months and years. When the British Newspaper Archive was launched in partnership with the British Library in November 2011 a goal of …
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This week we have published an incredible 425,285 brand new pages on The Archive, with 22 brand new newspaper titles joining us over the last seven days alone. Our new titles hail from the north and south of England, as well as from Scotland and from Wales. Meanwhile, we have updated 147 of our existing titles, from Abergele to Acton, from Southall to Spalding, and beyond. Furthermore, using our new newspapers, we discover more about the tragic sinking of the SS Utopia off the coast of Gibraltar, which …
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This week we have been busy adding 264,361 brand new pages to The Archive, with 22 brand new titles added over the past seven days. We’ve added 6 new titles from Scotland, as well as 5 brand new titles from England, and a wonderful 11 new titles have joined us this week as part of the ongoing Heritage Made Digital project in partnership with the British Library. So from Redditch to Rutherglen, from society gossip to society reform, this week’s offerings at The Archive offer a splendid array of both locations and …