Historic Newspapers Blog

1949 Cold War Events

July 14, 2019

Many historians believe the Cold War was inevitable, and there were several major events in 1949 that set it in motion. The 1949 Cold War...

A Year in History: 1939 Timeline

June 2, 2019

Major 1939 events signalled the coming of the Second World War. The interwar period represented an era of significant global changes. A brief term of...

1929 Timeline

May 23, 2019

The year 1929 brought with it the end of the Roaring Twenties, and saw the Wall Street Crash which started a worldwide Great Depression. Globally,...

Man on the Moon: Remembering Apollo 11

March 17, 2019

2019 marked the 50th anniversary of man’s first steps on the Moon. On July 20th 1969 Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins became the...

Queen Elizabeth II: The Early Years

October 9, 2017

Queen Elizabeth was born at 2:40am on 21st April 1926 at her maternal grandfather’s house at 17 Bruton Street in Mayfair. She was the first...

Princess Diana Charity Work

May 2, 2017

Diana Frances Spencer was born in 1961, in Sandringham, England. Daughter of John Spencer, Viscount Althorp and Frances Shand Kydd, Diana belonged to a family...

Paper Rationing During World War II

June 3, 2016

Rationing didn’t suddenly start at the beginning of the Second World War since it took time for the war to bite, nor did rationing suddenly...

1940s Recipes and More from Newspapers

March 3, 2016

Shortly after ‘the war to end all wars’, many wonder what could have even happened to lead to another world war. Nothing changed humanity quite...

Sunday Newspapers in the 1940s

March 12, 2015

Sunday newspapers are so rare because most of the stock we receive at the archive now is from bound volumes stored by libraries. However, these...