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As we settle into the new chapter of the British Newspaper Archive, we bring you six standout new titles this week. With 262,076 pages added in total, we will take you on a journey from important resort society in Bournemouth to the Victorian Temperance movement in London. On top of our new titles, we have made updates to forty-three of our pre-existing titles. So keep reading to discover more about our exciting new and updated titles, as you familiarise yourself with…

This week at The Archive we are marking St Patrick’s Day with the addition of five brand new Irish titles, and updates to 29 of our existing Irish titles, as we delve into a potential Oscar Wilde work, where all is not as it seems. Furthermore, in all, we’ve added 215,303 brand new pages to our collection, as The Archive continues to grow.So read on to discover more about our new and updated titles of the week, and also to read…

2018 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the iconic novel about the young scientist, Victor Frankenstein, and the monster he created in his laboratory.  In this post, we will take a look at the history of the novel, a critical early review, the novel’s origins, and its various adaptations for the stage and screen.PublicationThe Morning Post printed a notice of the publication of a new novel, ‘Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus’, by an anonymous…