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Rose Staveley-Wadham

Rose Staveley-Wadham

Newspaper Licensing Manager

With over a decade of experience in family history, historical research, and archive-based storytelling, Rose Staveley-Wadham works to bring historical newspapers online to the Archive. As well as writing and researching for the British Newspaper Archive, Rose has contributed to webinars, podcasts, and radio interviews. She also sits on the advisory board of the Preserving the Local Newspaper Archive project. A published author, Rose's debut novel was released in 2018, and her research has been featured in The Times.

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Brand new titles for our brand new platform

24 July 2026

Fittingly for our brand new platform, this week we are delighted to welcome five brand new titles to The Archive, with a total of 261,496 pages joining us in all. That's not it either, from across the UK and Ireland and even further afield, we've updated 46 of our existing titles. And as we voyage into these new waters, using our brand new shipping title, we explore the launches of some notable liners and merchant vessels from the late 19th and early

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Five fantastic new titles join The Archive

7 July 2026

This week at The Archive we are delighted to be joined by five fantastic new titles from across Britain and Ireland, as we turn the clock back 165 years to remember a devastating outbreak of yellow fever that swept through HMS Firebrand. That’s not all, as we’ve added a grand total of 100,308 brand new pages to our collection, with 29 of our existing titles being updated over the last seven days.So read on to discover more about our new and updated

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The Young Soldier joins our ranks – new from The Salvation Army

30 June 2026

We’re delighted as we march on with The Salvation Army to welcome another of the worldwide Christian church and registered charity’s titles to our ranks, namely the Young Soldier. The longest running continuously published children’s periodical in the world, alongside this fascinating publication we’ve also added five other new titles, and updated 22 of our existing titles from across the UK and Ireland. In all, we’ve added 207,356 brand new pages to The Archive over the last seven days.And this week,

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A healthy dose of new titles joins The Archive

8 June 2026

We have a healthy dose of new titles for you at The Archive this week, as we welcome popular medical paper the Family Doctor and People’s Medical Adviser to our collection, alongside six other brand new titles. From a pictorial record of Birmingham in the 1880s, to an early 20th century motorcycle journal, from a Baptist newspaper to a title advocating housing reform, our new titles this week cater to an extraordinary range of interests.Meanwhile, overall, we’ve added 336,654 brand

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Check out the Cheadle and Tean Times

2 June 2026

This week at The Archive we are delighted to welcome brand new title the Cheadle and Tean Times to our collection, as well looking back at the town of Cheadle’s remarkable fundraising efforts during the Second World War. And that’s not all, we’ve added a total of six brand new titles this week, covering everything from miners’ issues in Stoke-on-Trent to sport in the 1820s. Meanwhile, from Dundee to Dromore, from Flint to Feltham, from Leamington to Longford, we’ve updated

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Pioneering new titles on The Archive

18 May 2026

Welcome to this week’s blog, where we’re delighted to welcome six brand new and brilliantly different titles, as we look back 120 years to when the Labour Party got its name. Also new this week are 371,400 pages, whilst we have updated 36 of our existing titles from across the UK and Ireland.So read on to discover more about our new and updated titles of the week, and to learn about when the Labour Party got its name. Register now and explore

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