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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…

Thanks to one of our five new titles this week, we will never again underestimate the power of a good cup of tea. Join us at The Archive as we remember the biggest tea party of the war – and the woman who made it happen. Additionally, we will uncover the birth of secularist thought with another of our new titles, the Freethinker’s Magazine. With a commendable 302,734 brand new pages added this week, and updates to twenty-eight of our pre-existing titles,…

This week at The Archive we are delighted to welcome brand new title the Cheadle and Tean Times to our collection, as well looking back at the town of Cheadle’s remarkable fundraising efforts during the Second World War. And that’s not all, we’ve added a total of six brand new titles this week, covering everything from miners’ issues in Stoke-on-Trent to sport in the 1820s. Meanwhile, from Dundee to Dromore, from Flint to Feltham, from Leamington to Longford, we’ve updated…

The career of marvellous detective fiction author, Agatha Christie, lasted a total of 50 impressive years. From the creation of her first novel in the height of World War One, to the posthumous publication of her last in 1976, the impact of societal, economic, political and cultural progression on her work cannot be understated. This week’s special blog will focus on a mighty subsection of the developing British climate, a symbol of modernity, grandeur, and personalised independence – the automobile.Let’s take a…

To mark the start of 2026, we’ve added 404,407 brand new pages to The Archive over the last fortnight, as we explore the remarkable history of PS Comet, the pioneering steamboat, which was launched in 1812 to connect Glasgow with Helensburgh.The New Year treats don’t stop there; we’ve added four brand new titles to our collection from England and Northern Ireland, whilst we’ve updated 21 of our existing titles from across the United Kingdom and Ireland. So read on to discover more about…

With the addition of brand new title the Transport Worker, alongside three other brand new newspapers, this week at The Archive we are looking back at the 1911 Liverpool general transport strike. Meanwhile, we are excited to celebrate reaching a landmark 98 million pages, as we get ever closer to that 100 million pages milestone.That’s not all, in total we’ve added 203,148 brand new pages to our collection, with updates to eight of our existing titles. So read on to discover more about…

This week at The Archive we are marking this season of Remembrance by adding nine brand new titles from the First World War, as we take a look back at how the news of Armistice Day on 11 November 1918 was reported in these new newspaper pages. Meanwhile, we have updated 72 of our existing newspaper titles from across the United Kingdom and Ireland with pages from the First World War, as we have added a total of 116,576 brand new pages this week.…

This week we are marking 200 years since the birth of the modern railway, with the addition of three brand new railway titles to our holdings. That’s not all, we’ve added 362,596 brand new pages to our collection, with extensive updates to one of the south coast’s most famous titles, the Portsmouth Evening News.Through our new railway titles this week, we’ll take a look at another important moment in railway history, the opening of the North British Railway in June 1846, which…

This September we are marking 200 years since the birth of the modern railway. On 27 September 1825 the first modern railway was opened, namely the Stockton and Darlington Railway, and what better way to celebrate this iconic transport first, than by uncovering 20 pioneering railway firsts from our Archive.Register now and explore The Archive1. The earliest mention of the word ‘railway’ in our Archive – March 1759Well before the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, railways, in the sense of tracks, were…

A week on from our record-breaking smorgasbord of 80 brand new titles, we are continuing to spoil you with exciting brand new newspapers, such as the politically charged Bradford Socialist Vanguard, the story rich Fireside Companion, and fan favourite the Walsall Football News. With five brand new titles, updates to 21 of our existing titles from all around the world, and 204,610 brand new pages in all, it’s another great week here at The Archive.So read on to discover more about our…