At The Archive we are delighted to welcome guest blogs from our users, which highlight a wealth of different research interests. This month, we are excited to feature a blog on researching queer history by Staffordshire researcher Rebecca Morris-Quinn. My name is Rebecca, I am a queer woman living in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. I’ve been interested in genealogy and history for many years, since I found out that I share a birthday with a great-great aunt, Olive (albeit over 100 years …
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This week at The Archive we have been topping up our tabloid titles, with extensive updates to newspapers like the Daily Record and The People over the last seven days. Moreover, we have added 246,756 brand new pages to our collection over the past week, with new pages joining our newspapers from Accrington to Airdrie, from Retford to Rutherglen, from South Wales to Southall. So read on to discover which of our 55 existing titles we have updated, and also …
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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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As we return from our Christmas break, we would like to wish all of our subscribers and readers a very happy New Year, and to assure them we have not been idle. Indeed, over the past week we have added 67,202 brand new pages to the collection, with the addition of three brand new titles from the north and the south of England. So read on to discover, in this our first blog of the new year, about our three new titles of the …
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This week at The Archive we are celebrating another milestone – we’ve reached 43 million pages, all now available to search. Meanwhile this week we have added two more exciting local titles, having added 66,012 brand new pages over the past seven days. So read on to discover more about this week’s new titles, and the six publications to which we have added new pages. Also, read on to find out more about when Buffalo Bill came to Britain, and his show in Leeds …
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This week we have added over 120 years of history to The Archive! With an increase of more than 109,000 pages, we have added 7 brand new titles and updated 15 existing titles. Our new pages span from 1860 to 1988 with a strong focus on the year 1880. Read on a discover more about the headlines from the 1880s. Register now and explore the Archive One of the largest releases this week is more than 47,000 pages of our brand …
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During the month of September, The British Newspaper Archive is delving into stories of local history. We have had the pleasure of a guest blog by local Exeter historian David Cronforth and another blog demonstrating how to use The Archive for local history, as well as a webinar about using newspapers for local history research. To continue our theme, we are looking at local English culinary treats including the Yorkshire pudding, Staffordshire oatcake, Cornish pasty, eel pies of London’s East End and …