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This week at the The Archive, we take you on a journey from the poultry industry to the world of women’s hairdressing with two of our seven fantastic new titles. Step into a world of scientific discovery, wherein the shape of your head may just determine your criminal potential, and the concoction of dry shampoo will save you from greasy hairstyles.With a grand total of 338,158 new pages added, and nineteen updates to our pre-existing titles, you’re guaranteed to find…

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’re excited to welcome five brand new titles to our collection, and we’re especially delighted to welcome one of the longest running Free Church newspapers to our holdings, namely the Baptist Times. Meanwhile, we’ve added 125,635 brand new pages to The Archive in all over the past seven days, with updates to eleven of our existing titles, including to the world’s oldest English language general daily newspaper still in circulation, the Belfast News-Letter.So read on…

This week at The Archive we are marking the 80th anniversary of VE Day by examining the striking front pages of our newspapers. We’re also continuing to add new pages to our collection, with 125,548 brand new pages joining us over the last seven days, which includes the addition of five brand new newspaper titles and the updating of eighteen of our existing titles from across the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.So read on to see the headlines…

This month marks the 80th anniversary of VE Day – the day that peace in Europe was finally declared. After nearly six years of conflict – how did the newspapers of the time report the momentous news? How did the people of Britain react?Gloucestershire Echo | 8 May 1945Using the front pages from the 8 May 1945, VE Day itself, we take a step back in time to discover just how the joyous news spread, and how it was reacted to.Register now and explore…

This week at The Archive we are getting creative with the addition of brand new title Fashion and Craft (Creative Needlecraft), a publication devoted to all things dress and design. Meanwhile, our presses have been whirring over the past seven days to bring you another new title, the Halifax Daily Guardian, as we have added 243,130 brand new pages in all. We have also reached a landmark 74 million pages this week.Meanwhile from Deal to Dundee, from Mearns to Melton Mowbray,…

Known as the ‘first couturier‘ and the ‘Napoleon of costumiers,’ British fashion designer Charles Frederick Worth is regarded by many as the father of haute couture. Born in Bourne, Lincolnshire, on 13 October 1825, Charles Frederick Worth would make his name in Paris as the founder of the House of Worth, and the man who revolutionised the business of fashion.In this special blog, we will explore the life and legacy of Charles Frederick Worth via newspapers published in his home country.…

This week at The Archive has been a truly remarkable one, as we have achieved the landmark of 44 million pages all now available to view on the site. Furthermore, we have added another 201,178 brand new pages over the past seven days, with the addition of an incredible fifteen new titles, including specialist sporting and fashion titles.So read on to discover all about our new titles of the week, which include famed fashion industry publication the Tailor & Cutter, as well…

‘Times have brightened,’ writes one 1938 beauty commentator in the Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, as she reflects on how women of the past used to regard their faces.Do you remember how as a young girl, you looked at your face in the mirror and wished that you had a differently shaped mouth, not to mention nose, teeth, ears, and hair? You used to believe that the only thing to do with your face was to be resigned to…

This week at The Archive we are delighted to welcome one very special new addition, as well as the 97,542 brand new pages which have joined our collection over the past seven days.Register now and explore the ArchiveOur latest new title takes the shape of the Gentlewoman, a richly illustrated weekly newspaper for women. First published on 12 July 1890, the Gentlewoman was ‘presented‘ to her public. In introducing herself to the publishing scene, ‘she already makes bold to say [that]…