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This week at The Archive, we’re stepping back in time to 1897, walking through the doors of Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, thanks to an article featured in one of our fascinating new titles. We’ve been busy, welcoming six brand new titles, and sixteen updates to our pre-existing titles, leaving us with a total of 225,300 pages added this week.Join us as we uncover a petty battle among East Anglian newspapers, dive into a pacifist paper created as an anti-war response to…

This week at The Archive we have added 211,776 new pages to our holdings. With a mighty 53 updated titles, and 9 brand new titles added, we take you from the complex underworld of women’s clothing design in London, to the threatening notices posted on gates and chapel doors in Hexham. Additionally, continue on to discover the swan scandal in Linlithgow that shook the town, and contributed to the wider conversation of human-related pollution in lochs across Scotland.Register now and explore The…

This week we are marking of the ninetieth anniversary of the release of the Alfred Hitchcock film The 39 Steps, which came out on 6 June 1935. Meanwhile, we are celebrating the addition of eight brand new newspaper titles, the updating of twelve of our existing titles, as we have added 150,950 brand new pages to The Archive in all over the last seven days.So read on to discover more about the release of The 39 Steps and to learn more about our new…

This week at The Archive we are delighted to welcome a brand new title from the sunny south coast, the Bournemouth Times and Directory, as we take a moment to remember the devastating Bournemouth Blitz. In all, over the last seven days, we’ve added 366,686 brand new pages to our collection, whilst we’ve updated 25 of our existing titles from across England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.So, from Buckingham to Burnley, from Dingwall to Driffield, from Mid Sussex to Mid Ulster, read…

This week at The Archive we are delighted that iconic story magazine the People’s Friend has become our friend, as we are joined by the first 59 years of the long-running Scottish title. Before we delve into the history of the wonderful People’s Friend, and explore one of its first ever stories, ‘Faithful and True,’ which appeared on its inaugural front page on 13 January 1869, we also wanted to celebrate the addition of 291,950 brand new pages, which have taken us over the 88…

This week at The Archive has been another busy one, as we have added 473,524 brand new pages to our collection, with one brand new title joining us, as well as updates to 23 of our existing titles, with new pages joining the likes of The Tatler and the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. Furthermore, from Banbridge to Buckingham, from Morpeth to Motherwell, from South Shields to Shrewsbury, our updated titles this week hail from across England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.So…

This week at The Archive we’re delighted to welcome one brand new newspaper title to our collection, namely Yorkshire’s Hebden Bridge Times, alongside a total of 245,806 brand new pages. Meanwhile, from Derbyshire to Dunstable, from Eastbourne to Earlestown, from Thame to Todmorden, we have updated 15 of our existing titles from across England and Scotland.So read on to learn more about all of our new and updated titles of the week, as well as to discover more about poet laureate…

This week at The Archive we are delighted to welcome two brand new newspaper titles, the Bicester Review and the Warwick Courier, to our collection, as we mark 35 years since the passing of legendary British actor Laurence Olivier on 11 July 1989. Meanwhile, we have added 320,851 brand new newspaper pages in all over the last seven days, whilst from Barnoldswick to Biggleswade, from Kirriemuir to Knaresborough, from Peterborough to Portadown, we’ve updated 21 of our existing titles from across the UK.So read…

This week we are stopping off in sunny Sussex to welcome brand new title the Shoreham Herald to our collection, alongside 111,501 brand new newspaper pages. Meanwhile, from all across the United Kingdom, from Scotland, Northern Ireland and England, we’ve updated ten of our existing titles.So read on to discover more about our new and updated titles of the week, and also to learn about the town of Shoreham’s ties to the early British film industry, when it was tipped…

Eighteenth century writer, philosopher and early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft faced censure in her lifetime, not just for her radical beliefs, but also for her rejection of societal norms. Long after her death, however, attitudes began to shift, as she gained recognition as a trailblazing fighter for women’s equality and became an inspirational figure in the women’s suffrage movement.Following on from our blog on the life of Mary Wollstonecraft, in this second and final blog we shall examine the writer’s…