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We added 375,410 new pages to the Archive this week, taking our total page count to 90,873,973. With 16 new titles and 28 updated publications to explore, there are more fascinating stories to discover than ever.Register now and explore The ArchiveFor the first time, Vanity Fair has joined our collection – pages from intermittent years between 1869 and 1913 are available for you to search. Founded in 1868, this weekly magazine includes current events, fashion, serialised fiction and more. It is typical of the British
This week, we’re celebrating Saint Patrick’s Day with a bumper Irish update.You’ll be pleased to hear that we’ve added eleven new titles and updated 32 existing publications.156,095 brand new pages take our total count to 90,498,563, so there are more fascinating stories to explore than ever.Register now and explore The ArchiveFrom a Cork weekly title to specialist newspapers like the Irish Textile Journal, read on to discover all that’s been added.One of this week’s largest new titles is
With four new titles and an update to one existing publication, 122,625 pages joined the archive this week, taking our total page count to an impressive 90,342,468.Register now and explore The ArchiveThis week’s new pages come from the Emerald Isle – so it’s never been easier to uncover rich stories about Ireland and its people.Our new Irish titles cover intermittent years between 1870 and 1916. This key period in Ireland’s history saw several momentous social and political shifts, including the rise of
With seven new titles and a further seven existing publications updated, we’re delighted to announce that our page count passed the 90 million mark this week.We added 381,980 pages to the Archive – there are stories from Banffshire to Bournemouth for you to explore.Register now and explore The ArchiveThis week’s largest new addition is Lady’s Pictorial, with 124,602 pages covering intermittent years between 1881 and 1921 available for you to discover. Founded in 1880, this magazine catered to middle-class women and was originally
Adding 220,681 pages this week brings us tantalisingly close to 90 million pages in the Archive—another milestone on our journey to 100 million pages. To reach this, we’ve welcomed three new titles and expanded fifty-three existing ones.While we always enjoy adding new titles (and more on those in a moment), one of the most rewarding, and often intricate, tasks is adding new material to existing publications. Expanding coverage by tracking down ‘missing years’ requires careful investigation by our scanning team. Once a
This week 282,566 pages have joined the archives from ten Titles. We have added one new title and augmented our holdings of a further nine titles extending coverage from the 1810s and 1990s.New to the Archive this week is the Folkestone Daily News 1910-1914. The title, which shows evidence of extensive handling before being microfilmed and subsequently digitised, joins three other Folkestone titles in the Archive. The four titles combined cover the history of the harbour town from 1855 to 1999.In our
We’ve added 315,856 new pages to The Archive this week, taking our total page count up to a mind-boggling 85,317,265. We’re delighted to welcome two new English newspaper titles – the Darlington Telegraph and the Sandwell Chronicle – to our collection.We’ve also updated 15 of our existing titles, so there are fascinating new pages from Belfast to Biggleswade for you to discover.Read on to learn more about this week’s new and updated titles, and uncover a spooky story or two from within this
This week at The Archive we are proud to announce that we have passed another milestone, that of 76 million pages, which are now all available to search as part of our collection. Meanwhile, we’ve added four brand new titles from Aberdeenshire, Lincolnshire, Sussex and Yorkshire this week, as a total of 261,211 brand new pages have joined us over the last seven days.As part of our push to hit 76 million pages, we’ve updated 10 of our existing titles from across England
Eighteenth century writer and philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft was an early advocate of women’s rights. Lambasted during her lifetime for her refusal to conform to societal norms, she is seen today as one of the first feminist philosophers.In part one of our special blog series, we will examine the life of Mary Wollstonecraft, using newspapers found in our Archive. We will trace her life from its early difficulties, through to the publication of her trailblazing novels and pamphlets, learning how
This week at The Archive we’ve added one brand new title to our collection – the Brighouse Echo – alongside 174,403 brand new pages from across the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Caribbean, as we look forward to St Patrick’s Day on 17 March. Meanwhile, from Belfast to Biggleswade, from Denbigh to Dominica, from St Andrews to Saint Lucia, we’ve updated 57 of our existing titles.So read on to discover more about this week’s new title, West Yorkshire’s Brighouse Echo, as well as to