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WW1 editions of the Evening Despatch now onlineThe Evening Despatch was published in Birmingham throughout World War One. Over 4,000 pages from newspapers published in 1915, 1917 and 1918 have just been made available to search online.Search the Evening Despatch  Newspaper pages added every weekThousands of extra pages are added to The British Newspaper Archive each week. We’ll be adding more from the Evening Despatch soon, so be sure to check the recent additions regularly.See what’s been added in the…

‘He was the first man to ride into a cage of nine lions and direct their performance from the back of a Somalian stallion…’Oh, we think this will likely be our favourite newspaper headline for January.Let’s hope this poetess was an ailurophile, and that the lion tamer was a poetry lover!And we can’t help feeling that this is the sort of news story that sub-editors on newspapers dream about writing headlines for – the lucky sub-editor probably had…