This week at The Archive we have achieved an incredible landmark as we have reached over 80 million pages all now available to search. Alongside this wonderful achievement, we have added 425,567 brand new pages in total to our collection over the past seven days, including two brand new titles. Meanwhile, we have updated 20 of our existing titles from across the United Kingdom. So read on to discover more about our two brand new titles of the week, the …
Worthing
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 …