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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…

We have quite the story for you with a libel case concerning a stockbroker and his cook from the Bristol Zigzag, one of our five brand new titles this week, which was published in the 1880s. That’s not all, we’ve updated fifteen of our existing titles from across the United Kingdom, Ireland and beyond, as we’ve added 204,486 brand new titles in all to The Archive this week.So read on to discover more about our new titles, including the Bristol…

At The Archive this week we’re delighted to welcome eight brand new titles from across England and Ireland, as we investigate the assassination of Sir William Curzon Wyllie, a British Indian government official, by Indian nationalist student Madan Lal Dhingra, which occurred on 1 July 1909.Meanwhile, we’ve added 168,930 brand new pages to The Archive in all over the last seven days, with updates to 33 of our existing titles from across the United Kingdom and Ireland. So read on to discover more…

This week at The Archive we are delighted to welcome a trio of brand new titles: namely the Trinidad Royal Gazette, the Telford Journal and the Dudley & District Chronicle, as we have added an incredible 840,335 brand new pages to our collection. Meanwhile, we have updated 32 of our existing titles from across Scotland and England.So read on to learn more about our new and updated titles of the week, and also to discover more about Trinidad and Tobago’s most wanted,…

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…

We’ve added 153,774 pages to 10 regional titles to The Archive this week. We have added seventy-five years worth of material from between 1911 and 2003. Our additions focus on augmenting existing titles including the West Lancashire Evening Gazette which we first added in September of this year, and the Sussex Express which we first added to in 2013.The Sussex Express which first joined The Archive in 2013 has undergone many title changes. In 1857 it was The Sussex Agricultural Express, but as it masthead showed…

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’re marking 108 years since daylight saving time was introduced in the United Kingdom, as we welcome 358,368 brand new pages to our collection. We’re delighted to introduce one brand new newspaper to our holdings too this week, which is the Newton and Earlestown Guardian, alongside updates to 30 of our existing titles.From Coleraine to Cumbernauld, from Fife to Fleetwood, from Leven to Louth, we’ve added new pages to titles from across England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.…

This week we are visiting the seaside town of Morecambe with the addition of brand new title the Morecambe Visitor. Meanwhile, in all, we’ve added 102,467 brand new pages over the last seven days, with updates to 24 of our existing newspaper titles from Banbury to Batley, from Chorley to Crawley, from Market Harborough to Motherwell.So read on to discover more about this week’s new title the Morecambe Visitor, and also to learn more about one of the town of Morecambe’s…

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,…