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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…

This week at The Archive we’re delving into the history of prohibition across Scotland and its impact on local distilleries. As well as exploring a time when parts of Scotland went dry for a bit longer than just the month of January, we’ve added 74,458 brand new pages to The Archive, as well as updating twelve titles from across England, Scotland and the Isle of Man.So read on to discover which of our titles we have updated this week, and…

To mark the start of 2026, we’ve added 404,407 brand new pages to The Archive over the last fortnight, as we explore the remarkable history of PS Comet, the pioneering steamboat, which was launched in 1812 to connect Glasgow with Helensburgh.The New Year treats don’t stop there; we’ve added four brand new titles to our collection from England and Northern Ireland, whilst we’ve updated 21 of our existing titles from across the United Kingdom and Ireland. So read on to discover more about…

This week at The Archive we have been busy adding 204,327 brand new pages, as we remember the Great Fire of Edinburgh, which took place in November 1824. Meanwhile, we’ve added four brand new titles to The Archive, with one being dedicated to financial reform and another being dedicated to society gossip. Moreover, we’ve updated twelve titles from across the United Kingdom and Ireland.So read on to discover more about our new and updated titles this week, and also to learn…

This week at The Archive we’re delighted to welcome 202,948 brand new pages to our collection, as we mark 135 years since the opening of the new Battersea Bridge, which was designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette. Meanwhile, we’ve added four brand new titles and updated nine of our existing ones, from across the British Isles and Ireland.So read on to discover more about all of our new and updated titles of the week, as well as to learn more about the…

This week at The Archive we are delighted to welcome brand new Scottish sports paper the Sporting Post to our collection, as we welcome a whopping 417,546 brand new pages in total. Meanwhile, from Belfast to Beverley, from Melton Mowbray to Motherwell, from Selkirk to Sleaford, we’ve updated 44 of our existing titles from across the United Kingdom.So read on to discover more about our new and updated titles of the week. We also travel back to the year 1986 using pages…

This week at The Archive we are marking Burns Night with the addition of a very special brand new Scottish title the Mearns Leader. Meanwhile, from Ballymena to Biggleswade, from Londonderry to Littlehampton, from Maidstone to Market Harborough, we’ve updated ten of our existing titles from England and Northern Ireland. Furthermore, over the last seven days, we have added over 95,435 brand new pages to our collection of historic newspapers.So read on to discover more about legendary Scottish poet Robert…

This week at The Archive we have added an impressive 70,552 brand new pages, as we mark the launch of International Women’s Year in January 1975 by the United Nations, which would form the basis of International Women’s Day. Meanwhile, we’ve added one brand new title from Scotland, the Cumbernauld News, whilst we also see updates to six of our existing titles from across the United Kingdom.So read on to discover more about our brand new title of the week, as…

This week at The Archive we are delighted to welcome one splendid brand new title to our collection – Toby – the ‘East London Watch-Dog‘ – which provides us with a fascinating insight into attitudes to the police in Whitechapel at the time of Jack the Ripper. That’s not all, over the last seven days we’ve added 89,020 brand new newspaper pages, whilst we’ve made important updates to our newspaper titles from across England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.So read on to discover more…

This week at The Archive is a Scotsman special as we have added over 400,000 brand new pages to this seminal Scottish newspaper, spanning the years 1951 to 2002. We are delighted, furthermore, to announce the extension of our partnership with The Scotsman publishers National World, which will see many millions of new pages join our collection in the months and years to come.And that’s not all this week. Overall, we have added 572,692 brand new pages to our collection over the last…