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We’re rounding off the month of May at The Archive with six brand new titles, as we take you from the flourishing seaside resort of Rhyl and into the heart of the Victorian tricycle craze, remembering those who helped cement its place in motoring history. This week we have added 360,654 brand new pages, and have updated twenty-five of our pre-existing titles.Country Life | 18 July 1963So keep reading to uncover hidden secrets buried within our new titles, and to learn 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…

We are positively bustling with new titles this week, with five brand new titles for you to explore, including fashion favourite Le Follet. Meanwhile, we’ve added a grand total of 247,238 brand new pages to The Archive over the last seven days, with updates to eleven of our existing titles from across the United Kingdom and beyond.So read on to discover more about our new and updated titles of the week, and also to learn about, through the stunning pages…

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…

This week at The Archive we have added two brand new titles to our collection – the Blackpool Gazette and the Scunthorpe Star – as we’ve added 304,982 brand new newspaper pages in all over the last seven days. Meanwhile, from Chichester to Cleckheaton, from Fraserburgh to Frome, from Pembrokeshire to Perthshire, we’ve updated 34 of our existing titles from across the United Kingdom.So read on to discover more about all of our new and updated titles of the week, and also to…

We’ve added 315,856 new pages to The Archive this week, taking our total page count up to a mind-boggling 85,317,265. We’re delighted to welcome two new English newspaper titles – the Darlington Telegraph and the Sandwell Chronicle – to our collection.We’ve also updated 15 of our existing titles, so there are fascinating new pages from Belfast to Biggleswade for you to discover.Read on to learn more about this week’s new and updated titles, and uncover a spooky story or two from within this…

Another week here at The Archive and we’re delighted to introduce yet another brand new newspaper title to our collection, Yorkshire’s Pudsey & Stanningley News. The newness does not stop there, however, as we’ve added 206,336 brand new pages to The Archive all together over the last seven days. Meanwhile, from Ballymena to Barnoldswick, from Wolverhampton to Worthing, from Halifax to Hartlepool, we’ve updated 25 of our existing titles from across the UK and Ireland.So read on to discover more about our…

In this special guest blog, David Musgrove, content director for BBC History Magazine and HistoryExtra, considers the amazing life of the now-forgotten Victorian showman, athlete, and wheelbarrow pedestrian Bob Carlisle, and how his clever manipulation of newspapers marks him out as a 19th-century influencer.Did the Victorian period have influencers? Yes, but rather than using social media and camera phones, they employed letter-writing and wheelbarrows.I’ve been researching the story of a forgotten 19th-century minor celebrity whose life was widely…

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…