Latest from The British Newspaper Archive

Here’s a summary covering four weekly update batches to the BNA between 13 July and 3 August 2026. Most additions fill gaps in existing runs (e.g., Dundee Courier now covers 1844–2005 essentially continuously). Some very long historical runs had small top-ups, e.g. Salisbury and Winchester Journal (1745 onward) and Oxford Journal (1753 onward).

New Titles
17 entries are New, including Bournemouth Observer, Carlow Independent, North Middlesex Weekly Standard, Wimbledon Times and Mitcham Advertiser, Shipping World and Herald of Commerce, Tyrawly Herald, Carlow Morning Post, Clonmel Advertiser, and Sheffield Times.

Major Updates
150 titles received new page additions across the four update dates (3 August, 27 July, 20 July, 13 July 2026). The largest single additions (by page count) are:

Title Pages added Update date Year range covered
Hull Daily Mail 139,326 13 Jul 1885–2005
Staffordshire Sentinel 74,686 3 Aug 1854–1995, 2002–2004
Gloucester Citizen 69,166 27 Jul 1876–1879, 1881–1907, 1909–1951, 1958, 1962–1965, 1986, 1991–1999, 2002–2005
Western Daily Press 51,472 3 Aug 1858–1950, 1962–1988, 1990–1999, 2002, 2004
Faversham News 51,194 13 Jul 1883–1896, 1898–1906, 1908–1911, 1913–1919, 1936–1980, 1986–1988, 1990–1999
Sandwell Evening Mail 41,190 3 Aug 1975–1999, 2002–2003
Edinburgh Evening Dispatch 39,100 20 Jul 1886–1920
Surrey Mirror 33,984 20 Jul 1879–1895, 1899–1911, 1913–1970, 1986–1999, 2001–2005
Reading Evening Post 32,698 3 Aug 1965–1975, 1977–2003
London Evening Standard 25,316 3 Aug 1827–1918
Highland News 24,610 27 Jul 1883–1977, 1979–1985, 1987–1999
Uxbridge Leader 24,092 20 Jul 1986–1999, 2003–2005
Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser 22,948 13 Jul 1881–1893, 1896, 1898–1906, 1908–1999, 2003–2005
Shipping World and Herald of Commerce 22,912 27 Jul 1883–1896, 1904–1908
The Record 22,424 20 Jul 1838–1880, 1900–1919
Peterborough Evening Telegraph 21,096 27 Jul 1949–1970, 1986–2005
North Wales Weekly News 13,252 3 Aug 1889–1927, 1940–1999, 2004–2005
Northwich Chronicle 12,080 3 Aug 1927, 1982, 1987–2002
Carmarthen Journal 11,084 20 Jul 1821–1822, 1832, 1835, 1841–1843, 1845–1868, 1871, 1876–1880, 1886, 1889, 1892–1896, 1906, 1910–1911, 1925, 1950–1951, 1976–1999, 2001–2003
Stirling Observer 10,916 20 Jul 1836–1847, 1849–1901, 1903–1960, 1969–1970, 1975–1976, 1984–1999, 2001–2002, 2004–2005
Kent Messenger 10,862 27 Jul 1897–1898, 1910, 1912–1919, 1921–1928, 1941
Trinidad Royal Gazette 10,858 27 Jul 1884–1918, 1920
Vale Advertiser 10,720 20 Jul 1992–1999, 2001, 2003–2005
Runcorn Weekly News 10,544 3 Aug 1913–1933, 1936–1983, 1986–2000, 2002

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