A History of the Daily Mirror
The Daily Mirror newspaper is part of Mirror Group Newspapers, which is a subsidiary of Trinity Mirror plc. It i...
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A History of the Edinburgh Evening News
The Edinburgh Evening News is a daily newspaper and website based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Read about Edinburgh E...
Lady Astor: The First Woman in Parliament
100 years ago this November, Nancy Astor was elected to Parliament, becoming Britain’s first female MP. This pos...
The Tate Murders Newspaper Coverage
August 8 – 9, 2019 marked 50 years since the Tate Murders. Revisiting newspapers that captured the event in harr...
1949 Cold War Events
Many historians believe the Cold War was inevitable, and there were several major events in 1949 that set it in ...
A Year in History: 1939 Timeline
Major 1939 events signalled the coming of the Second World War. The interwar period represented an era of signif...
1929 Timeline
The year 1929 brought with it the end of the Roaring Twenties, and saw the Wall Street Crash which started a wor...
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Man on the Moon: Remembering Apollo 11
2019 marked the 50th anniversary of man’s first steps on the Moon. On July 20th 1969 Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin...
Queen Elizabeth II: The Early Years
Queen Elizabeth was born at 2:40am on 21st April 1926 at her maternal grandfather’s house at 17 Bruton Street in...
Princess Diana Charity Work
Diana Frances Spencer was born in 1961, in Sandringham, England. Daughter of John Spencer, Viscount Althorp and ...
Paper Rationing During World War II
Rationing didn’t suddenly start at the beginning of the Second World War since it took time for the war to bite,...
1940s Recipes and More from Newspapers
Shortly after ‘the war to end all wars’, many wonder what could have even happened to lead to another world war....
Sunday Newspapers in the 1940s
Sunday newspapers are so rare because most of the stock we receive at the archive now is from bound volumes stor...
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