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Fittingly for our brand new platform, this week we are delighted to welcome five brand new titles to The Archive, with a total of 261,496 pages joining us in all. That's not it either, from across the UK and Ireland and even further afield, we've updated 46 of our existing titles. And as we voyage into these new waters, using our brand new shipping title, we explore the launches of some notable liners and merchant vessels from the late 19th and early…

This week we are stepping into the history of a royal abode, namely Highgrove House, the private family residence of King Charles III and Queen Camilla. As we open the doors of Highgrove, thanks to the addition of local Gloucestershire newspaper the Tetbury Advertiser, we welcome a total of six brand new titles to our Archive, as well as the updating of 52 of our existing titles, one for every week of the year. Meanwhile, in all, we’ve added 298,344 brand new…

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 at The Archive we are bringing the drama with the addition of a new title devoted to the theatre, as well as another new title which saw its owner get into hot water over his comments on the trial of Queen Caroline in 1820. In all, we have five brand new titles this week, as well as updates to 25 of our existing titles from across the UK and beyond, with 238,144 new pages added overall.So read on to discover…

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 we are delighted to welcome brand new title the Cleckheaton & Spenborough Guardian, as we mark 57 years since the launch of Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth 2, fondly known as the QE2, on 20 September 1967. Meanwhile, we have added another 304,934 brand new pages to our collection, whilst we have updated 50 of our existing titles from across the United Kingdom.So read on to discover more about our new and updated titles of the week, and to learn about the…

This week at The Archive we are delighted to welcome Blackpool title the West Lancashire Evening Gazette to our collection of newspapers, as we have added 289,279 brand new pages in total over the last seven days. Meanwhile, from Belper to Bexhill, from Harrogate to Hucknall, from Melton Mowbray to Morecambe, we’ve updated 20 of our existing titles.So read on to discover more from our new and updated titles of the week, as we mark 27 years this week since the release…

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…