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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 The Archive, we take you on a journey from the poultry industry to the world of women’s hairdressing with two of our seven fantastic new titles. Step into a world of scientific discovery, wherein the shape of your head may just determine your criminal potential, and the concoction of dry shampoo will save you from greasy hairstyles.With a grand total of 338,158 new pages added, and nineteen updates to our pre-existing titles, you’re guaranteed to find…

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…

For the first week of March we are celebrating women throughout history who have been honoured with Academy Awards for their work as directors, actresses, and pioneers of the film industry. With the 98th year of the Academy Awards Ceremony approaching on March 15, 2026, it’s important to showcase some of the individuals who have prevailed against the male-dominated narrative of the event. As such, this blog will use pages from The Archive to highlight the marvellous achievements of women who have…

This week, we’re ever closer to understanding the lives of gentlewomen in the early 1910s with the help of one of our three fascinating new titles, The World and His Wife. Not only this, we’ve updated two more of our already existing titles on The Archive, bringing the total pages added for the first week of February to 138,695.This week’s new titles take us on a journey that starts from within the home, and leads us all the way to…

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…

This week at The Archive we are celebrating reaching a landmark 95 million pages all now available to search, as we welcome another wonderful host of new titles, including communist title Workers’ Weekly and historic Irish newspaper the Dublin Journal. Overall, we’ve added five brand new titles this week, alongside updates to 32 of our existing titles, covering a range of interests, from sport to industrial democracy, and range of locations from across the United Kingdom. In all, we’ve added 288,936 brand new…

This week at The Archive we’re excited to welcome five brand new titles to our collection, and we’re especially delighted to welcome one of the longest running Free Church newspapers to our holdings, namely the Baptist Times. Meanwhile, we’ve added 125,635 brand new pages to The Archive in all over the past seven days, with updates to eleven of our existing titles, including to the world’s oldest English language general daily newspaper still in circulation, the Belfast News-Letter.So read on…

This week at The Archive we are marking the 80th anniversary of VE Day by examining the striking front pages of our newspapers. We’re also continuing to add new pages to our collection, with 125,548 brand new pages joining us over the last seven days, which includes the addition of five brand new newspaper titles and the updating of eighteen of our existing titles from across the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.So read on to see the headlines…

This month marks the 80th anniversary of VE Day – the day that peace in Europe was finally declared. After nearly six years of conflict – how did the newspapers of the time report the momentous news? How did the people of Britain react?Gloucestershire Echo | 8 May 1945Using the front pages from the 8 May 1945, VE Day itself, we take a step back in time to discover just how the joyous news spread, and how it was reacted to.Register now and explore…