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This week at The Archive, we’re bringing you five fabulous new titles from the nineteenth century. We will uncover a period of rapid expansion and industrialisation as we navigate across Britain and Ireland. From Sheffield and Birmingham to Carlow and Clonmel, we’ll reveal how local papers dealt with turbulent political, economic, and religious transformations. With 300,944 new pages added, and updates to thirty-two of our pre-existing titles, we guarantee something will suit your taste this week.Illustrated Police News | 29 June 1867Join…

This week we are stepping into the history of a royal abode, namely Highgrove House, the private family residence of King Charles III and Queen Camilla. As we open the doors of Highgrove, thanks to the addition of local Gloucestershire newspaper the Tetbury Advertiser, we welcome a total of six brand new titles to our Archive, as well as the updating of 52 of our existing titles, one for every week of the year. Meanwhile, in all, we’ve added 298,344 brand new…

This week at The Archive, we’re stepping back in time to 1897, walking through the doors of Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, thanks to an article featured in one of our fascinating new titles. We’ve been busy, welcoming six brand new titles, and sixteen updates to our pre-existing titles, leaving us with a total of 225,300 pages added this week.Join us as we uncover a petty battle among East Anglian newspapers, dive into a pacifist paper created as an anti-war response to…

This week at The Archive we have added 211,776 new pages to our holdings. With a mighty 53 updated titles, and 9 brand new titles added, we take you from the complex underworld of women’s clothing design in London, to the threatening notices posted on gates and chapel doors in Hexham. Additionally, continue on to discover the swan scandal in Linlithgow that shook the town, and contributed to the wider conversation of human-related pollution in lochs across Scotland.Register now and explore The…

This week at The Archive, we have added another 190,692 new pages to our total count. We welcome three new titles that take us both underground into the mining industry, and across the water to 19th century Antigua. Additionally, we have updated nineteen of our pre-existing titles, including one final year to complete the 1956-1985 run of our 100 millionth title, Dundee Courier, as well as more to special interest title, Bicycling News.So continue reading to find out more about our fascinating…

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…

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…

This week at The Archive we’ve added 122,203 brand new pages to our collection, as we mark 41 years since one of the largest robberies in British history: the Brink’s-Mat robbery, in which £25 million worth of gold bullion was stolen from an industrial estate near Heathrow Airport. Meanwhile, we’ve updated two of our existing titles this week, with new pages joining the Alnwick Guardian and County Advertiser and the Daily Record.Register now and explore the ArchiveFounded in the Northumberland market…

This week at The Archive we are delighted to welcome brand new title the Cleckheaton & Spenborough Guardian, as we mark 57 years since the launch of Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth 2, fondly known as the QE2, on 20 September 1967. Meanwhile, we have added another 304,934 brand new pages to our collection, whilst we have updated 50 of our existing titles from across the United Kingdom.So read on to discover more about our new and updated titles of the week, and to learn about the…

This week at The Archive we are delighted to welcome Blackpool title the West Lancashire Evening Gazette to our collection of newspapers, as we have added 289,279 brand new pages in total over the last seven days. Meanwhile, from Belper to Bexhill, from Harrogate to Hucknall, from Melton Mowbray to Morecambe, we’ve updated 20 of our existing titles.So read on to discover more from our new and updated titles of the week, as we mark 27 years this week since the release…