This week at The Archive we have been immensely busy adding 397,534 brand new pages to our newspaper collection, with the addition of four brand new titles from Kent, Suffolk and Manchester. Meanwhile, we’ve been busy updating our existing titles from across England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.So read on to discover more about all of our new and updated titles of the week, and also to find out about the burning of Parliament in October 1834, where…

Not only does 2014 mark the 100th anniversary of World War One, it is also the 75th anniversary of the start of World War Two.  Britain declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939, following Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland on 1 September.  Take a look at the newspaper headlines from Sunday 3 September, announcing that Britain was at war once more.Search newspapers from World War TwoNewspaper headlines from the beginning of WW2Derby Daily Telegraph | Sunday 3 September 1939Portsmouth Evening News prints WW2…

England took part in the World Cup for the first time in 1950. Like this year’s tournament, the football matches were held in Brazil. The English national team met the United States in the group stages and suffered a shocking 1-0 defeat.The game has gone down in football history and has a rather interesting urban myth attached to it. Many say that English newspapers reported a 10-1 win, assuming that there had been a typing error in the message they received from…

Guglielmo Marconi applied for a patent for his new invention – the radio – on 2 June 1896. The British and Irish newspapers available online at The British Newspaper Archive reveal just how popular it became.You can explore thousands of adverts for Marconi radios like these, published up until the 1950s.Oh! Why don’t we get a Marconi? Dover Express – Friday 16 October 1936Image © Local World Limited. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.View the whole newspaper pageThe man behind your…