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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…

This week at The Archive we are sounding a War Cry, as we welcome the main UK and Irish periodical of The Salvation Army, the worldwide Christian church and a registered charity, to our collection. And that’s not all, as we’re also delighted to host updates to another The Salvation Army title, the Social Gazette. In all, we have 71,299 brand new pages for you to enjoy this week.In this week’s blog, we’ll take you through the fascinating history of…

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’re on our bikes as we welcome the Bicycling News to our collection, and explore cycling smash hit ‘Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two’). That’s not all, as we’ve also added four other brand new titles to our collection, with updates to 15 of our existing titles from across the United Kingdom and Ireland, and a total of 207,731 brand new pages joining us in all.So read on to discover more about the hit song ‘Daisy…

This week at The Archive we have a smorgasbord of historical Shropshire newspapers for you to enjoy, with the addition of eight brand new titles from the West Midlands county, alongside updates to eight of our existing Shropshire titles. We are delighted to be spoiling you with new pages this week, which number 288,672 in all, as we welcome a total of fifteen brand new titles, alongside updates to 43 of our existing titles.So read on to discover more about our…

This week at The Archive we are delighted to welcome another 202,482 brand new pages to our collection, with new titles including the Children’s Newspaper and the Nottinghamshire Weekly Express joining us over the last seven days. Meanwhile, we have updated eleven of our existing titles from across the United Kingdom.So read on to discover more about our five new titles of the week, and also to learn which of our existing titles we have updated. Also, read about the…

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…