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This week, we’ve added three exciting newspaper titles to The Archive, covering intermittent years between 1877 and 1919. We’ve also updated 33 pre-existing titles from across Britain and Ireland, with a total of 265,524 new pages added.Register now and explore The Archive Mitcham and Tooting MercuryThis week’s first brand new addition is the Mitcham and Tooting Mercury. Previously named the Mitcham and Tooting Mercury, Streatham & Balham Times (before switching to a shortened title in 1918), this local paper reported on news from across…

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 are delighted to be joined by five fantastic new titles from across Britain and Ireland, as we turn the clock back 165 years to remember a devastating outbreak of yellow fever that swept through HMS Firebrand. That’s not all, as we’ve added a grand total of 100,308 brand new pages to our collection, with 29 of our existing titles being updated over the last seven days.So read on to discover more about our new and updated…

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…

We’re rounding off the month of May at The Archive with six brand new titles, as we take you from the flourishing seaside resort of Rhyl and into the heart of the Victorian tricycle craze, remembering those who helped cement its place in motoring history. This week we have added 360,654 brand new pages, and have updated twenty-five of our pre-existing titles.Country Life | 18 July 1963So keep reading to uncover hidden secrets buried within our new titles, and to learn more…

Welcome to this week’s blog, where we’re delighted to welcome six brand new and brilliantly different titles, as we look back 120 years to when the Labour Party got its name. Also new this week are 371,400 pages, whilst we have updated 36 of our existing titles from across the UK and Ireland.So read on to discover more about our new and updated titles of the week, and to learn about when the Labour Party got its name. Register now and explore…

This week at The Archive we are delving into the history of nursing with the addition of brand new title the Nursing Times, as we mark both the anniversary of Florence Nightgale’s birth on 12 May 1820, and the anniversary of Mary Seacole’s death on 14 May 1881. We’re also exploring an important part of the UK’s religious history this week, with the addition of what is thought to be the country’s first Muslim newspaper. In what is a bumper week, we’ve added a…

This week at The Archive, we’re rewinding the clocks and stepping into the heart of the Industrial Revolution with our five brand new titles. From the rise and fall of Chartism, to the inception of the modern Co-operative Movement, this week’s pages present a tale told primarily from the worker’s perspective.We’ve added 340,466 brand new pages in total this week, and with updates to a noble twenty-one of our pre-existing titles, there’s plenty to explore. One of these updates pertains…

This week at The Archive, we’re rolling out the red carpet for the release of our newest national title, the Daily Star. Established in 1978, this newspaper speaks to decades of social, cultural, and economic fluctuations that help define the trajectory of British history. Exploration of the 236,096 brand new pages now available on The Archive unveil what the British public were loving, despising, ridiculing, and chortling at in the latter half of the twentieth century. From celebrity scandals, to royal anniversaries,…

We’re delighted this week to bring you an astonishing amount of new pages, over half a million in all, as we trace everything from music history through the pages of Sound Wave to workers’ history through Common Good. Here are the figures for you: we’ve added 526,032 brand new pages in all, alongside seven brand new titles, and we’ve updated 28 of our existing titles.From Fife to Folkestone, from Llangollen to Liverpool, from Roscommon to Ripley, through our new pages this…