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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…

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…