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With one week to go until St Patrick’s day, we at The Archive are turning our focus across the water to Ireland for this week’s titles. We will uncover how Cork Free Press was involved in a printing disgrace following an editorial disagreement, with the paper eventually being brought to an end following an act of suppression by the British authorities. Additionally, newly added pages from the Belfast Telegraph allow us to dive into the passage of the Thirty-fourth Amendment…

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…

This week at The Archive we’re delighted to welcome 202,948 brand new pages to our collection, as we mark 135 years since the opening of the new Battersea Bridge, which was designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette. Meanwhile, we’ve added four brand new titles and updated nine of our existing ones, from across the British Isles and Ireland.So read on to discover more about all of our new and updated titles of the week, as well as to learn more about the…

This week at The Archive we are delighted to welcome one splendid brand new title to our collection – Toby – the ‘East London Watch-Dog‘ – which provides us with a fascinating insight into attitudes to the police in Whitechapel at the time of Jack the Ripper. That’s not all, over the last seven days we’ve added 89,020 brand new newspaper pages, whilst we’ve made important updates to our newspaper titles from across England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.So read on to discover more…

In December 1920 the world’s first illustrated weekly news magazine the Illustrated London News delved into the ‘curiosities and ingenuities‘ of the Patent Office, featuring some of Britain’s most unusual rejected patents.Illustrated by the publication’s own artist W.B. Robinson, the Illustrated London News presented a series of the bizarre designs that had been submitted to the Patent Office, but had since ‘lain dormant.’We at The Archive were keen to delve into our collection’s cabinet of curiosities, and these rejected…

Mercedes Gleitze (1900-1981) was the first British woman to swim the English Channel, and the first person to swim the Straits of Gibraltar. In an amazing career that spanned the 1920s and 1930s, Mercedes captured the imagination of the British public and became a household name.Born to German parents in Brighton, Mercedes was one of three sisters. Skilled in languages, she moved to London where she worked as a secretary and stenographer. Whilst living in London she began swimming in…

This week at The Archive we are illuminating Irish history with the addition of three brand new Irish newspapers, from Dublin, Limerick and Kerry. Meanwhile, over the past seven days, we have added a total of 122,848 brand new pages, whilst we have also updated five of our existing titles from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.So read on to discover more about all of our new and updated titles of the week, as well as to learn about…

The work of poet, mystic and painter William Blake was largely unrecognised in his lifetime. The son of a dissenting hosier, Blake was born in London’s Soho in 1757, and was apprenticed to an engraver at a young age. Hostile to organised religion, he created an array of paintings and poetry, often inspired by his visions, before he passed away in 1827.In this special blog, we will take a look at the evolving attitudes to the art of William Blake. We…

This week at The Archive we’re delving into occupation history with the addition of two special employment related titles, the Licensed Victuallers’ Guardian and the Situation and London Advertiser. We’ve also added three brand new Scottish titles to our collection over the past seven days, alongside new publications from Cheshire and Northamptonshire.So read on to learn how aging licensed victuallers were chosen to be admitted to the Licensed Victuallers’ Asylum at the Old Kent Road, a building which consisted…

This week at The Archive we are building up our collection with the addition of 97,401 brand new pages and two brand new titles, one of which provides a fascinating look at the architecture of the Victorian era. Meanwhile, we have updated twelve of our existing titles from across England and Wales, with new pages joining our important regional newspapers from the likes of Leicester, Stoke-on-Trent, and Nottingham.So read on to discover more about all of our new and updated…