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Brought to you by Findmypast and the British Library, the British Newspaper Archive is digitising millions of newspaper pages from the UK and beyond.
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Joined May 2011
We’re delighted to announce that in partnership with the @britishlibrary, we have released over 1 million more free to view newspapers pages on The Archive, bringing our total of free to view pages to over 4 million. Find out more: #FreeToViewNewspapers
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Although poorly received on its debut in 1700, William Congreve's 'The Way of the World' is widely regarded as one of the best Restoration comedies. Here Anne Leon and Margaret Rutherford star in the play, from The Sphere, 29 December 1956 #TheatreHistory
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'Trail of Devastation Left by the Gale - Hour of Terror in the Midlands - Tree Crashes Through Roof of Hospital Ward - Many Amazing Escapes,' Evening Despatch, 10 February 1925 #OTD #1925Newspapers
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England's first woman professional playwright was the pioneering Aphra Behn, whose play 'The Rover' was first performed in 1677. Here, The Stage, 19 November 1987, reviews the 1987 revival #TheatreHistory #WomenInHistory
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'Britain Asks France to Pay - Note to Paris On War Debts - Churchill Requests Fixed Annual Payments - Offer of Reduction - Effort to Protect British Taxpayers,' Daily News (London), 9 February 1925 #OTD #1925Newspapers
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The Sphere, 8 March 1952, looks ahead to the Stratford Company's production of Shakespeare's 'Coriolanus' with these costume designs for the characters of Coriolanus, Menenius, Tullus Aufidius, Virgilia and Volumnia #SaturdayStyle
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'Lanarkshire Exhumation Sensation - Fate of Young Douglas Woman - Village Rumours Lead to Body Being Secretly Exhumed,' Sunday Post, 8 February 1925 #OTD #1925Newspapers #CrimeHistory
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Actress, theatre producer and socialite Lillie Langtry is pictured in costume by The Tatler, 26 March 1902, in the last act of 'Mademoiselle Mars.' Her costume was modelled after a painting of Marie Louise in the Louvre #FridayFashion #TheatreHistory
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The Sphere, 7 February 1925, pictures sculptor Charles Sargeant Jagger putting the final touches to the Royal Artillery Memorial, which was set to be unveiled at Hyde Park Corner #OTD #1925Newspapers
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RT @Billy_Rough: What’s on this week in #Dundee
#musichalls in 1908? Well, Victoria Monks was at the Gaiety springing "into the front-rank…
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RT @ListerLaneCem: Remembering wool merchant Thomas (Tom) Howarth, who died at Madeira #OTD 1898, aged 36. On advice of his doctors, Tom tr…
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Using our new title the Bromley Local Guide and Advertiser, this week we've taken some career advice from the 1910s. The paper recommends that young women, just leaving school, are ideally suited to typist positions across the country: #OccupationHistory
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'Sensational Plan to Save St. Paul's - Lower the Dome on New Piers - 'Highly Dangerous,'' Daily Express, 6 February 1925 #OTD #1925Newspapers
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William Shakespeare is traditionally connected with his birthplace of Stratford-upon-Avon, but what about the city in which he lived and worked? In this special blog, we follow Shakespeare to London, and explore the city as he would have experienced it:
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Cinema industry title The Bioscope, 5 February 1925, advertises Mary Pickford's latest film 'Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall' #OTD #1925Newspapers #FilmHistory
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This week we're celebrating reaching the 89 million page mark at The Archive, as we welcome one brand new title - the Bromley Local Guide and Advertiser - alongside updates to 67 of our titles from across the UK, Ireland and beyond: #TuesdayTitles
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The Sketch, 4 February 1925, pictures 'the maid in the oilskin mask' - an unusual method of protection against the sun on the Palm Beach. It is worn by Doris Rothschild #OTD #1925Newspapers
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First performed in 1606, here one of William Shakespeare's most famous plays Macbeth is given a 1920s twist, with 'khaki, plus-fours and pyjamas' and a young Laurence Olivier - from The Sketch, 15 February 1928 #TheatreHistory
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The Daily Mirror, 3 February 1925, pictures a train that was blown from a viaduct in Donegal #OTD #1925Newspapers
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One of the earliest forms of theatre in Britain was the Medieval mystery or morality play - here the 'old-time allegory' of the 'Everyman' is performed on the equally historic steps of Canterbury Cathedral - The Sphere, 24 August 1929 #TheatreHistory
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