We are excited to bring you another 305,497 newspaper pages. We have brought you a massive update to over 120 of our existing titles plus eleven brand-new titles. The new titles span 140 years of history with the latest title New Observer of Bristol published in 1994. This week’s incredible release brings us stories of local writers and royal weddings. We can read about history as it happened and track the progress of women’s rights and the American civil …
Timber Corps
Continuing our commemoration of the 75 years since VE-Day, in this special blog we explore the vital role that women played throughout the course of the Second World War. In 1939, for a second time in just over twenty years, Britain found itself embroiled in an international conflict, and women stepped forward to work in civil defence, armed forces, and industry. Unlike any other country, for the first time, British women were conscripted into service. On 18 December 1941, the …