Articles by Rose Staveley-Wadham

This week we are marking 200 years since the birth of the modern railway, with the addition of three brand new railway titles to our holdings. That’s not all, we’ve added 362,596 brand new pages to our collection, with extensive updates to one of the south coast’s most famous titles, the Portsmouth Evening News.Through our new railway titles this week, we’ll take a look at another important moment in railway history, the opening of the North British Railway in June 1846, which

This September we are marking 200 years since the birth of the modern railway. On 27 September 1825 the first modern railway was opened, namely the Stockton and Darlington Railway, and what better way to celebrate this iconic transport first, than by uncovering 20 pioneering railway firsts from our Archive.Register now and explore The Archive1. The earliest mention of the word ‘railway’ in our Archive – March 1759Well before the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, railways, in the sense of tracks, were

This week at The Archive we are delighted to welcome a legend of the television world to our collection, the TV Times. Made possible thanks to our partnership with publishing powerhouse Future, the TV Times provides a wonderful window into television history, with this release covering the years 1955 to 1980. In all, we’ve added 72,160 brand new pages to our Archive over the last seven days, whilst this week, we shine a very special light onto the TV Times, exploring the history

This week at The Archive we are celebrating reaching a landmark 95 million pages all now available to search, as we welcome another wonderful host of new titles, including communist title Workers’ Weekly and historic Irish newspaper the Dublin Journal. Overall, we’ve added five brand new titles this week, alongside updates to 32 of our existing titles, covering a range of interests, from sport to industrial democracy, and range of locations from across the United Kingdom. In all, we’ve added 288,936 brand new

This week at The Archive we have a smorgasbord of historical Shropshire newspapers for you to enjoy, with the addition of eight brand new titles from the West Midlands county, alongside updates to eight of our existing Shropshire titles. We are delighted to be spoiling you with new pages this week, which number 288,672 in all, as we welcome a total of fifteen brand new titles, alongside updates to 43 of our existing titles.So read on to discover more about our

We are positively bustling with new titles this week, with five brand new titles for you to explore, including fashion favourite Le Follet. Meanwhile, we’ve added a grand total of 247,238 brand new pages to The Archive over the last seven days, with updates to eleven of our existing titles from across the United Kingdom and beyond.So read on to discover more about our new and updated titles of the week, and also to learn about, through the stunning pages

This week at The Archive we are ruffling some feathers with the addition of brand new pet focussed journal Fur and Feather, alongside some 260,834 brand new pages. That’s not all, we’ve added four brand new titles in total this week, as well as updating 17 of our existing titles, with updated pages hailing from the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and as far away as New Zealand.So read on to discover more about all of our new and updated

A week on from our record-breaking smorgasbord of 80 brand new titles, we are continuing to spoil you with exciting brand new newspapers, such as the politically charged Bradford Socialist Vanguard, the story rich Fireside Companion, and fan favourite the Walsall Football News. With five brand new titles, updates to 21 of our existing titles from all around the world, and 204,610 brand new pages in all, it’s another great week here at The Archive.So read on to discover more about our

This week at The Archive we are breaking all records, as we have added a staggering 80 brand new newspaper titles to our collection. You read that right! Over the last seven days 80 brand new newspaper titles have joined us from across the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Isle of Man, covering diverse subjects like sport, religion, prisons, Irish nationalism, funfairs and marriage.It really is a smorgasbord of social history that we are serving you this week, as we have

Here at The Archive we are delighted to welcome 204,443 brand new pages this week, as we mark 125 years since the passing of the Mines (Prohibition of Child Labour Underground) Act 1900, which banned children under the age of thirteen from working underground in mines. This act, following the raising of the school leaving age to twelve in 1899, represented an important milestone in the eradication of child labour.Meanwhile, we’ve added eight brand new titles this week, which span the length and