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This week at The Archive we are delighted to welcome a legend of the television world to our collection, the TV Times. Made possible thanks to our partnership with publishing powerhouse Future, the TV Times provides a wonderful window into television history, with this release covering the years 1955 to 1980. In all, we’ve added 72,160 brand new pages to our Archive over the last seven days, whilst this week, we shine a very special light onto the TV Times, exploring the history…

On 15 March 1917, amid the chaos and fury of the Russian Revolution, Tsar Nicholas II, Emperor of all Russia, abdicated from the throne and ended 300 years of Romanov rule.  Russians of all classes were on the streets of Petrograd (formerly known as St Petersburg), and Nicholas’ own military had joined the ranks of protestors.  How did this monarch fall and a dynasty end?  On the anniversary of Tsar Nicholas’ abdication, we will take a look through the British Newspaper Archive at…

On 29 June 1914, Khioniya Guseva attempted to assassinate Grigori Rasputin in the monk’s home village of Pokrovskoe Selo in western Siberia.You’ll find a number of newspaper reports about the attack in The British Newspaper Archive.Read reports about RasputinGuseva’s attempt to murder Rasputin Although the facts of the attack are unclear, it’s said that Guseva stabbed Rasputin either as he left church or while he was reading a telegram outside the post office.Althought Guseva’s attempt to murder Rasputin…