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This week at The Archive we are marking St Patrick’s Day with the addition of five brand new Irish titles, and updates to 29 of our existing Irish titles, as we delve into a potential Oscar Wilde work, where all is not as it seems. Furthermore, in all, we’ve added 215,303 brand new pages to our collection, as The Archive continues to grow.So read on to discover more about our new and updated titles of the week, and also to read…

As we step into the New Year here at The Archive we’re delighted to welcome two brand new titles – the Cannock Chase Chronicle and the Walsall Chronicle – to our collection, as we’ve added 469,636 brand new pages to our Archive over the last few weeks. That’s right, over the festive period we’ve been busily adding new newspaper titles and pages to our repository, with 41 of our existing titles being updated too. So, from Beverley to Buckingham, from Londonderry to Littlehampton, from…

Space RaceThe Space Race between the Soviet Union and the United States experienced a significant ratcheting up at the end of the 1950s with the Sputnik Crisis, which saw the successful launching and orbit of the satellite Sputnik 1 by the Soviet Union in 1957. This development was a key factor in the creation of NASA the following year by the United States as well as the investment of federal funds into national security and research and development.An important milestone…