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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…

This week, we’ve added three exciting newspaper titles to The Archive, covering intermittent years between 1877 and 1919. We’ve also updated 33 pre-existing titles from across Britain and Ireland, with a total of 265,524 new pages added.Register now and explore The Archive Mitcham and Tooting MercuryThis week’s first brand new addition is the Mitcham and Tooting Mercury. Previously named the Mitcham and Tooting Mercury, Streatham & Balham Times (before switching to a shortened title in 1918), this local paper reported on news from across…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

This week at The Archive we are delving into the history of nursing with the addition of brand new title the Nursing Times, as we mark both the anniversary of Florence Nightgale’s birth on 12 May 1820, and the anniversary of Mary Seacole’s death on 14 May 1881. We’re also exploring an important part of the UK’s religious history this week, with the addition of what is thought to be the country’s first Muslim newspaper. In what is a bumper week, we’ve added a…

This week we are stepping into the history of a royal abode, namely Highgrove House, the private family residence of King Charles III and Queen Camilla. As we open the doors of Highgrove, thanks to the addition of local Gloucestershire newspaper the Tetbury Advertiser, we welcome a total of six brand new titles to our Archive, as well as the updating of 52 of our existing titles, one for every week of the year. Meanwhile, in all, we’ve added 298,344 brand new…

We’re delighted this week to bring you an astonishing amount of new pages, over half a million in all, as we trace everything from music history through the pages of Sound Wave to workers’ history through Common Good. Here are the figures for you: we’ve added 526,032 brand new pages in all, alongside seven brand new titles, and we’ve updated 28 of our existing titles.From Fife to Folkestone, from Llangollen to Liverpool, from Roscommon to Ripley, through our new pages this…