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We’re rounding off the month of May at The Archive with six brand new titles, as we take you from the flourishing seaside resort of Rhyl and into the heart of the Victorian tricycle craze, remembering those who helped cement its place in motoring history. This week we have added 360,654 brand new pages, and have updated twenty-five of our pre-existing titles.Country Life | 18 July 1963So keep reading to uncover hidden secrets buried within our new titles, and to learn more…

This week, we’re ever closer to understanding the lives of gentlewomen in the early 1910s with the help of one of our three fascinating new titles, The World and His Wife. Not only this, we’ve updated two more of our already existing titles on The Archive, bringing the total pages added for the first week of February to 138,695.This week’s new titles take us on a journey that starts from within the home, and leads us all the way to…

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…

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…

This week at The Archive we are delighted to welcome another 202,482 brand new pages to our collection, with new titles including the Children’s Newspaper and the Nottinghamshire Weekly Express joining us over the last seven days. Meanwhile, we have updated eleven of our existing titles from across the United Kingdom.So read on to discover more about our five new titles of the week, and also to learn which of our existing titles we have updated. Also, read about the…

This week at The Archive we are delighted to welcome a brand new title from the sunny south coast, the Bournemouth Times and Directory, as we take a moment to remember the devastating Bournemouth Blitz. In all, over the last seven days, we’ve added 366,686 brand new pages to our collection, whilst we’ve updated 25 of our existing titles from across England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.So, from Buckingham to Burnley, from Dingwall to Driffield, from Mid Sussex to Mid Ulster, read…

Here at The Archive, we love to learn of the discoveries you have made through our newspaper pages, and how you have used them, whether they have influenced novels, or provided information for dissertations. We were incredibly grateful, therefore, when crime writer and athletics historian Peter Lovesey contacted us with his account of sixty years of researching newspapers. From accessing historical newspapers in their original form, to scrolling through microfilm reels, and finally to searching newspapers digitally on the British…

We’ve added 153,774 pages to 10 regional titles to The Archive this week. We have added seventy-five years worth of material from between 1911 and 2003. Our additions focus on augmenting existing titles including the West Lancashire Evening Gazette which we first added in September of this year, and the Sussex Express which we first added to in 2013.The Sussex Express which first joined The Archive in 2013 has undergone many title changes. In 1857 it was The Sussex Agricultural Express, but as it masthead showed…

This week at The Archive, as well as reaching an incredible 85 million newspaper pages, we are also delighted to welcome new pages to the world’s longest-running country and field magazine, and one of Britain’s oldest magazines, The Field. That’s not all, we’ve also added one brand new title to our collection this week, the Worksop Guardian, with updates to fourteen of our existing titles, as 169,756 new pages join us in all.So read on to discover more about our new…

This week at The Archive, we’ve added an impressive 222,484 brand new pages, updating 48 existing titles and introducing 2 brand new ones! Dive in to explore our latest additions and pick up more tips and tricks on how to make the most of your research with The Archive.Register now and explore the ArchiveThis week, we’re excited to introduce the Garstang Courier to our growing collection of digitised historic newspapers. Covering the rich heritage of Garstang, a historic market town in…