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This week, we’ve added three exciting newspaper titles to The Archive, covering intermittent years between 1877 and 1919. We’ve also updated 33 pre-existing titles from across Britain and Ireland, with a total of 265,524 new pages added.Register now and explore The Archive Mitcham and Tooting MercuryThis week’s first brand new addition is the Mitcham and Tooting Mercury. Previously named the Mitcham and Tooting Mercury, Streatham & Balham Times (before switching to a shortened title in 1918), this local paper reported on news from across…

Thanks to one of our five new titles this week, we will never again underestimate the power of a good cup of tea. Join us at The Archive as we remember the biggest tea party of the war – and the woman who made it happen. Additionally, we will uncover the birth of secularist thought with another of our new titles, the Freethinker’s Magazine. With a commendable 302,734 brand new pages added this week, and updates to twenty-eight of our pre-existing titles,…

This week at The Archive, we’re rolling out the red carpet for the release of our newest national title, the Daily Star. Established in 1978, this newspaper speaks to decades of social, cultural, and economic fluctuations that help define the trajectory of British history. Exploration of the 236,096 brand new pages now available on The Archive unveil what the British public were loving, despising, ridiculing, and chortling at in the latter half of the twentieth century. From celebrity scandals, to royal anniversaries,…

This week at The Archive we are sounding a War Cry, as we welcome the main UK and Irish periodical of The Salvation Army, the worldwide Christian church and a registered charity, to our collection. And that’s not all, as we’re also delighted to host updates to another The Salvation Army title, the Social Gazette. In all, we have 71,299 brand new pages for you to enjoy this week.In this week’s blog, we’ll take you through the fascinating history of…

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…

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…

Today is a momentous day in the history of the British Newspaper Archive – we have reached 100 million newspaper pages – all available for you to search at the click of a button. Indeed, to be accurate, we now have over 100 million newspaper pages for you to enjoy, as we tipped over this incredible figure with the addition of 206,718 brand new newspaper pages this week.Our 100 millionth newspaper page comes from none other than the wonderfully historic Dundee Courier. Read on to…

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…