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This week at The Archive, we’re bringing you five fabulous new titles from the nineteenth century. We will uncover a period of rapid expansion and industrialisation as we navigate across Britain and Ireland. From Sheffield and Birmingham to Carlow and Clonmel, we’ll reveal how local papers dealt with turbulent political, economic, and religious transformations. With 300,944 new pages added, and updates to thirty-two of our pre-existing titles, we guarantee something will suit your taste this week.Illustrated Police News | 29 June 1867Join…

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 have added another 190,692 new pages to our total count. We welcome three new titles that take us both underground into the mining industry, and across the water to 19th century Antigua. Additionally, we have updated nineteen of our pre-existing titles, including one final year to complete the 1956-1985 run of our 100 millionth title, Dundee Courier, as well as more to special interest title, Bicycling News.So continue reading to find out more about our fascinating…

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’ve added 122,203 brand new pages to our collection, as we mark 41 years since one of the largest robberies in British history: the Brink’s-Mat robbery, in which £25 million worth of gold bullion was stolen from an industrial estate near Heathrow Airport. Meanwhile, we’ve updated two of our existing titles this week, with new pages joining the Alnwick Guardian and County Advertiser and the Daily Record.Register now and explore the ArchiveFounded in the Northumberland market…

This week at The Archive, we’ve added an impressive 222,484 brand new pages, updating 48 existing titles and introducing 2 brand new ones! Dive in to explore our latest additions and pick up more tips and tricks on how to make the most of your research with The Archive.Register now and explore the ArchiveThis week, we’re excited to introduce the Garstang Courier to our growing collection of digitised historic newspapers. Covering the rich heritage of Garstang, a historic market town in…

This week at The Archive we are celebrating reaching 82 million newspaper pages, as we welcome one brand new title to our collection, the Whitley Bay Guardian. Meanwhile, we have added 318,607 brand new pages in total, whilst from Bicester to Boston, from Hartlepool to Hastings, from Spilsby to Sunderland, we’ve updated seventeen of our existing titles from across England.So read on to discover more about all of our new and updated titles of the week, and also to learn about…

In October 1947, actress Eileen Isabella Ronnie Gibson, also known as Gay Gibson, disappeared from the ship upon which she was travelling home from South Africa. Her disappearance, which later led to a murder trial, hit headlines across the globe, as the sensational case mirrored plots akin to those to be found in books authored by Agatha Christie.In the first part of this special blog series, which you can read here, we took a look at who Gay Gibson was,…

This week at The Archive has been another incredibly busy one as we have added 106,443 brand new pages to our collection, with one brand new newspaper from Lancashire, the Fleetwood Weekly News, joining us. Meanwhile, from Londonderry to Lanarkshire, from Maidstone to the Mearns, from West Sussex to Worcestershire, we’ve updated twelve of our existing titles from across England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.So read on to discover more about our new title of the week, which serves the town…