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This week at The Archive we are marking St Patrick’s Day with the addition of five brand new Irish titles, and updates to 29 of our existing Irish titles, as we delve into a potential Oscar Wilde work, where all is not as it seems. Furthermore, in all, we’ve added 215,303 brand new pages to our collection, as The Archive continues to grow.So read on to discover more about our new and updated titles of the week, and also to read…

Wow, what a week it’s been, as we’ve reached over 100 million pages, and now, this week, we’re going to take you on a walk through 1850s London. It won’t quite top that 100 million pages feeling, but we’ve added another 259,715 brand new pages to The Archive from across the UK and Ireland, as we continue to add more historical newspapers to our collection.In all, this week, we’ve added four brand new titles from England and Ireland, as well as updating 22…

Today is a momentous day in the history of the British Newspaper Archive – we have reached 100 million newspaper pages – all available for you to search at the click of a button. Indeed, to be accurate, we now have over 100 million newspaper pages for you to enjoy, as we tipped over this incredible figure with the addition of 206,718 brand new newspaper pages this week.Our 100 millionth newspaper page comes from none other than the wonderfully historic Dundee Courier. Read on to…

Today is a momentous day. Some fifteen years after the launch of the British Newspaper Archive, we have achieved the milestone of 100 million newspaper pages available to search as part of our collection. 100 million pages of stories waiting for you to uncover, from the length and the breadth of the United Kingdom, Ireland and beyond, covering five centuries of news.To celebrate this remarkable achievement, we’ll take a look at how we reached our 100 million newspaper pages landmark, exploring the…

This week at The Archive we’re celebrating Valentine’s Day with the ringing of some very special Wedding Bells, whilst we also explore a Blackpool bathing scandal which erupted in the summer of 1879. Furthermore, you may have noticed that our front page is ticking ever closer to our 100 million newspaper pages milestone. Contributing to this are the 286,735 brand new pages we have added this week alone, whilst we’ve added a total of seven brand new titles, and updated six of our…

This week at The Archive we are bringing the drama with the addition of a new title devoted to the theatre, as well as another new title which saw its owner get into hot water over his comments on the trial of Queen Caroline in 1820. In all, we have five brand new titles this week, as well as updates to 25 of our existing titles from across the UK and beyond, with 238,144 new pages added overall.So read on to discover…

This week the city of Hull is taking a starring role on The Archive, as we’ve added fifteen brand new Hull newspapers, as well as updating four more. Overall, we’ve added 204,393 brand new pages to The Archive, as we celebrate the Yorkshire port city of Hull, the UK’s City of Culture in 2017.Stayed tuned as we dive into all of our brand new Hull newspapers of the week, and also to explore one of Hull’s claims to fame, being the…

To mark the start of 2026, we’ve added 404,407 brand new pages to The Archive over the last fortnight, as we explore the remarkable history of PS Comet, the pioneering steamboat, which was launched in 1812 to connect Glasgow with Helensburgh.The New Year treats don’t stop there; we’ve added four brand new titles to our collection from England and Northern Ireland, whilst we’ve updated 21 of our existing titles from across the United Kingdom and Ireland. So read on to discover more about…

This Christmas week at The Archive we are investigating a Christmas crime, as we welcome three brand new titles and 200,800 pages to our collection in all. The Christmas treats don’t stop there, however, with updates to six of our existing titles from the UK and Ireland.So read on to discover more about the Christmas crime which caused a stir in the Deptford community in December 1869, and also to learn about our new and updated titles of the week.Register…

This week at The Archive we’re on our bikes as we welcome the Bicycling News to our collection, and explore cycling smash hit ‘Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two’). That’s not all, as we’ve also added four other brand new titles to our collection, with updates to 15 of our existing titles from across the United Kingdom and Ireland, and a total of 207,731 brand new pages joining us in all.So read on to discover more about the hit song ‘Daisy…