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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 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 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…

Since August 2021, the Archive has been working in partnership with the British Library to build a collection of free to view newspaper pages. This collection enables enhanced access to the diverse newspaper holdings of the British Library, with the titles, which have carefully curated by the British Library, spanning four centuries of news and covering not just Britain and Ireland, but the Caribbean, India, and beyond.You can search our free to view pages by creating a free account with…

In the early 1900s British authorities took a new approach to education: open air schools. Inspired by methods of teaching in Germany, these open air schools were intended to provide disadvantaged city children with fresh air, alleviating their poor health and preventing the spread of tuberculosis.In this special blog, using newspapers taken from our Archive, we will investigate the open air schools of the 1900s, from their early inception, to how they continued to play a role in education…

This March at The Archive we are celebrating inspiring women from history, who broke boundaries across different fields, whether they be medical, sporting, political and much more besides. We will be highlighting those inspiring women who broke the mould, and we will be showcasing the achievements of some lesser known women along the way, who deserve recognition for their trailblazing lives and careers.And in this special blog, we will be looking at ten inspiring women from history who you…

This week at The Archive we have added 46,718 brand new pages to our collection, with three brand new newspaper titles joining us in all. Two of our new titles illuminate the pan-Africanism movement of the early twentieth century, telling the story of the struggle against British colonial rule. Meanwhile, our new title of the week hails from London’s East End.So read on to discover more about our new and updated titles of the week, as well as to find…

As part of our ongoing partnership with the British Library, we are delighted to announce that one million more pages on the British Newspaper Archive have now been made free to view on our site, meaning that we now have two million pages in total that can be accessed freely as part of our collection.And we’re not stopping here. We’re planning to release a total of five million free to view pages on The Archive over five years, meaning…

On 20 July 1969, two American astronauts, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, landed on the moon, thus becoming the first two humans ever to walk on the lunar surface.These first steps were watched by an estimated audience of 650 million viewers worldwide, as the Apollo 11 mission became a veritable global media sensation.But how was the moon landing reported on by the British media? As part of space and the stars month here at The Archive, we have collated ten front pages…

Disaster has befallen the giant German airship, Hindenburg. She was blown to pieces in a mysterious explosion when about to moor at Lakehurst, New Jersey, on the first anniversary of her maiden flight to America. A third of her reported total of 97 aboard have died. Latest death toll of the disaster is 35.So reported the Lincolnshire Echo on 7 May 1937, a day after the German airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire as it attempted to land in New Jersey. News of the…