A Year in History: 1954 Timeline
THE YEAR 1954 marked global transition: the Cold War escalated through nuclear developments and international al...
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Famous Ida B Wells Quotes
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an American journalist, educator and activist. She was born July 16, 1862 in Holly Sp...
Operation Motorman: Through the Papers
Ahead of the 50th anniversary of what was the biggest British military operation since the 1956 Suez Crisis, we ...
1972 Staines Air Disaster: Through the Papers
Ahead of the 50th anniversary of what remains the most devastating air accident in British history, we take a lo...
The Lindbergh Kidnapping: Through The Papers
American aviator Charles Lindbergh had already made headline news in May 1927, when he made the first nonstop, s...
Pearl Harbor Newspaper Headlines: Through The Papers
The attack on the United States’ naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, was a catastrophic and surprisi...
Historic Celebrities: Alice Paul
Alice Paul was a political activist who played a key role in the suffragist movements, both in the UK and in the...
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Disappearance of DB Cooper: Through The Papers
The mysterious “DB Cooper” has caught the attention of many over the last 50 years, with his case becoming one o...
Construction of the Berlin Wall, 1961: Through The Papers
On 13th August 1961, citizens of Berlin woke up distressed and confused to a wired barrier circulating around We...
The New York Times Pentagon Papers
American journalism experienced a significant milestone when the Pentagon Papers were published by the New York ...
President Kennedy's “Man on the Moon” Speech: Through The Papers
On May 25, 2021, it will be 60 years since President John F. Kennedy gave his ambitious “Man on the Moon” speech...
Baseball’s Best: Willie Mays
The career of The Say Hey Kid is one of the most storied in all of baseball. As part of our 90th birthday gifts ...
The Start of World War One: Through The Papers
No country had ever seen a war on such a scale as World War One, or the “Great War” as it was known at the time....
Wall St. Lays An Egg: The Wall Street Crash, As Viewed Through the Papers
1929 saw the Roaring Twenties come to a sudden end with the Wall Street Crash in October. This post will uncover...
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The Tate Murders Newspaper Coverage
August 8 – 9, 2019 marked 50 years since the Tate Murders. Revisiting newspapers that captured the event in harr...
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...
The Pre 1799 Rare Newspaper Collection
For hundreds of years, the reading medium of Newspapers has amassed a strong popularity since the time of Ancien...
Napoleonic Era Newspaper Collection
The famous Napoleon was a military leader and French statesman, who was in charge of many successful campaigns d...
Jack the Ripper Newspaper Collection
Jack The Ripper newspaper coverage from 1888Image: Wikimedia Commons In the early hours of Friday, 31st...
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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