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This week at The Archive we are delighted to welcome a legend of the television world to our collection, the TV Times. Made possible thanks to our partnership with publishing powerhouse Future, the TV Times provides a wonderful window into television history, with this release covering the years 1955 to 1980. In all, we’ve added 72,160 brand new pages to our Archive over the last seven days, whilst this week, we shine a very special light onto the TV Times, exploring the history…

In this very special blog, Jessie O’Hara, from our sister site Findmypast, takes a fascinating look at astrology through the pages of our newspapers. Featuring articles all the way from the eighteenth century to the twentieth century, she traces the development of attitudes towards astrology across three centuries, from scepticism to horoscopes being a mainstay of mainstream media.Register with us today and see what stories you can discoverBeliever or non-believer, agnostic or sceptic, there is no denying that…

Space RaceThe Space Race between the Soviet Union and the United States experienced a significant ratcheting up at the end of the 1950s with the Sputnik Crisis, which saw the successful launching and orbit of the satellite Sputnik 1 by the Soviet Union in 1957. This development was a key factor in the creation of NASA the following year by the United States as well as the investment of federal funds into national security and research and development.An important milestone…