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At The Archive this week we are delighted to announce that we have hit another milestone, as we are now at over 97 million pages all available to search, as we embrace spooky season and find out how to throw a 1950s style Halloween party. That’s not all, we’ve added another 256,448 brand new pages to our collection, with five brand new titles and updates to seven of our existing titles from across the UK.And so, read on to discover more…

At The Archive this week we are delighted to announce the addition of some 254,727 brand new pages, as we remember the Royal Charter Storm of October 1859, which was one of the most severe storms to hit the British Isles during the 19th century. Meanwhile, we have added six brand new titles from across the United Kingdom and Ireland, including two with a sporting bent, as well as updating fifteen of our existing titles.So read on to discover more about…

This week we are celebrating our Scottish newspapers, as we welcome six brand new newspapers from Scotland and 182,850 brand new pages in all to our collection. That’s not all, out of our fourteen updated titles, ten are Scottish, whilst we are delighted to welcome new years to what is believed to be the oldest magazine still in publication, The Scots Magazine.So read on to discover more about our new and updated Scottish newspapers of the week, and also to…

As it’s the height of spooky season we’re exploring the history of Halloween at The Archive, with the help of the 93,381 brand new pages that we have added to our collection over the last seven days. Meanwhile, we’re delighted to welcome one brand new newspaper title to The Archive, which is the Middlesex & Surrey Gazette, whilst we have made exciting updates to some of our existing titles from across Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.So read on to discover more…

As we come to the end of August we have a bumper week for you here at The Archive, as we have added 265,138 brand new pages, and we explore one of the wettest Augusts on record, that of 1912. Meanwhile, we’ve added three brand new titles for you, from London, Lancashire and Cornwall, whilst from Bath to Belfast, from Hinckley to Holyhead, from Paddington to Portsmouth, we’ve updated 31 of our existing titles.So read on to discover more about our new…

This week at The Archive we are bringing you a duo of new London newspapers, from both north and south of the River Thames. Meanwhile, we’ve also added 156,854 brand new pages to our collection over the past seven days, with 23 of our existing titles being updated, from Coventry to Croydon, from Huddersfield to Hull, from Newcastle to Nottingham.So read on to discover more about all of our new and updated titles of the week, as well as to find…

This week at The Archive we have added 407,285 brand new pages, whilst we’re delighted to welcome London’s first ever halfpenny newspaper the Echo to our collection, one of the eight brand new newspapers that have joined us over the past seven days. Meanwhile, as the World Cup plays out in Qatar, we’ve added a brand new specialist football title from Portsmouth, as well as important Scottish Sunday newspaper the Sunday Mail (Glasgow).We’ve not neglected our existing titles either. From…

In spite of the hot weather here at The Archive we are delighted to bring you 209,493 brand new pages from across the world, with new pages joining publications from the likes of England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Canada and Barbados. We have extensive and exciting updates to some of our wonderful regional titles, which span the years 1742 to 1997, as well as to one of our special illustrated titles, Black & White.So read on to discover more about our updated titles of…

Over the past seven days here at The Archive we have been busy adding 131,994 brand new pages to our collection, as we continue to augment our newspaper holdings from across Britain, Ireland, and beyond. This week we’re delighted to welcome one brand new title from London, the Lewisham Borough News, as well as updates to twelve of our existing titles.So read on to discover more about all of our new and updated titles of the week, and as the…

This week at The Archive we have been busy adding an incredible 167,444 brand new pages to our collection, with nineteen new titles added in all. And this week’s new titles have an especially Scottish theme, with a lucky thirteen new titles added from Scotland alone over the past seven days.Meanwhile, we have added six historic London titles, digitised as part of the British Library’s Heritage Made Digital programme, and updated fifteen of our existing newspaper titles, including pages from…