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Hot Off The Press – New Pages This Week

Eagle-eyed followers and friends of The Archive will have noticed we have been quite quiet of late in publishing new newspaper pages to the site. This week, we are pleased to welcome new pages from the West Lancashire Evening Gazette to our collection, as we provide an update from the British Newspaper Archive HQ. Meanwhile, in all this week, we have added 5,396 brand new pages to our collection. Register now and explore The Archive An Update from The Archive

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Hot Off The Press – New Titles This Week

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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Ten Television Series That Shaped the 1960s

This September at The Archive we will be taking a look at all things 1960s, from the culture of a decade that changed everything – fashion, music, film – to its key events and figures. And in this special blog we will be looking at the ten television series that we believe shaped the decade. At the beginning of the 1960s, three quarters of the population of Britain had a television. By 1964, only four years later, that number was

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