This week we have reached another milestone in our digitisation journey, as we have reached 73 million pages at The Archive, whilst we explore an early festive film, the Christmas Burglars. Not only have we added an early cinema title to our collection, we have also added a new title from England’s north-east, namely the Blyth News Post Leader, as we have added 127,786 brand new pages in all to our collection over the last seven days.This is our last weekly…

The British Newspaper Archive is packed with weird and wonderful stories of every description.Search the newspapersHowever, of all the historic titles in this collection, no publication reported the bizarre and the shocking in quite the same way as the Illustrated Police News.The Illustrated Police News was one of Britain’s very first tabloids and one of the first periodicals to tap into the British public’s morbid appetite for crime and sensation. The paper was founded in 1843 and was…