Uncover stories of crime with new records
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By Daisy Goddard | August 7, 2026
There's so much to discover within this week's English and Scottish additions.
This week's exciting new additions offer a fascinating insight into criminality between the 18th and 20th centuries.
Understand the experiences of immigrants with new Metropolitan police registrations, and delve deeper into Scotland's courts with new database records.
Metropolitan Police, Aliens Registration Office
Spanning 1876 to 1965, this new collection is made up of the registration records of 1,257 immigrants into Britain.
Scotland, Court & Criminal Database
We've also updated our Scottish crime records this week, with 241,229 new additions covering 1791 to 1937.
New pages from Cornwall to Carlow
262,076 pages joined our newspaper archive this week, with six brand new titles and updates to 43 existing publications.
New titles
- Bournemouth Observer and Fashionable Visitors' List, 1875, 1889
- Carlow Independent and Leinster Agricultural Journal, 1879-1882
- North Middlesex Weekly Standard, 1893-1901
- Wimbledon Times and Mitcham Advertiser, 1886-1887
- Wimbledon, Tooting and Merton Temperance Gazette, 1886-1887
- Yorkshire Observer Budget, 1879,1895-1896, 1912
Updated titles
- Aberdeen Herald & Post, 1991-1993
- Andover Advertiser and North West Hants Gazette, 1889
- Banffshire Journal, 1912
- Catholic Times and Catholic Opinion, 1889, 1898
- Cheltenham News, 2002
- Chepstow Weekly Advertiser, 1858
- Cornish Times, 1880
- Cornubian and Redruth Times, 1874-1876, 1879, 1911-1920
- Derby Exchange Gazette, 1877, 1889
- Dudley Herald, 1877, 1889, 1912-1913, 1915-1919
- Dundalk Democrat, 1891
- Dundee Weekly News, 1855, 1885
- Evesham Journal, 1877
- Fairplay, 1915
- Fifeshire Advertiser, 1857
- Glasgow Mercantile Advertiser, 1852
- Glossop-dale Chronicle and North Derbyshire Reporter, 1919
- Ilkeston Pioneer, 1864
- Illustrated Berwick Journal, 1874
- Illustrated Police Budget, 1903
- Isle of Wight Mercury, 1859
- Jersey Evening Post, 1917-1918
- Knaresborough Post, 2005
- Lancing Herald, 2005
- London Evening Standard, 1901-1902, 1904, 1917-1918
- Man of Ross and General Advertiser, 1858, 1889
- Missionary Herald of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, 1863
- North Wales Weekly News, 2004-2005
- Northwich Chronicle, 2000-2002
- Oldham Chronicle, 1875
- Orkney Herald, 1951-1961
- Pembrokeshire Herald, 1881
- Reading Evening Post, 2000, 2003
- Rothesay Chronicle, 1901
- Runcorn Weekly News, 2000-2002
- Sandwell Evening Mail, 2002-2003
- Shields Daily News, 1878
- Southern Daily Mail, 1896, 1899-1900, 1905
- Southport Independent and Ormskirk Chronicle, 1872
- Staffordshire Sentinel, 2004
- Stirling Journal and Advertiser, 1889
- Torquay Times and South Devon Advertiser, 1966
- Western Daily Press, 2002, 2004
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