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Hot Off The Press – New Titles This Week

This week at The Archive we have added 39,811 brand new pages to our collection, with four brand new titles joining us, including a Devon duo of new newspapers alongside new publications from Sussex and Norfolk. Meanwhile, from Haverhill to Huddersfield, from Salford to South London, we have updated eight of our existing titles. So read on to discover more about all of our new and updated titles of the week, as well as to find out more about the

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Hot Off The Press – New Titles This Week

This week at The Archive has been an extremely busy one as ever – we have added 199,897 brand new pages as we continue to augment our collection of newspapers from across the United Kingdom and Ireland. Over the past seven days alone we have added seven brand new titles, from Finchley to Liverpool, from Glasgow to Skegness, whilst we have updated nineteen of our existing titles, with significant additions to some of our Nottinghamshire titles. So read on to discover more about all of

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‘Furnishing the Beach Hut – How to Make the Most of a Seaside Holiday’

This August at The Archive we will be taking a look at the history of the Great British seaside, from bathing machines to bathing costumes, and today in this special blog we will explore one of the seaside’s most familiar sites: the beach hut. The Sphere | 30 November 1957 Using our newspapers, we will take a look at how the beach hut became popular, and how in the 1920s and 1930s newspaper columns brimmed with advice on how to furnish

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