The Archives releases many of its publications, including periodical newsletters, its annual report and the State of the Archives report, on its web site, and maintains an 'e-shop' to facilitate the sale of copies of some of its text and image holdings to interested members of the public.
In Algeria, archives report epidemics of plague as far back as the 14th century.
As late as 1930, a senior British official, in dispatches stored in India's national archives, reported that a clutch of Russian guns had been found in Waziristan: "Of these 36 are stamped with the 'Hammer and Sickle' emblem of the Soviet government, while one is an English rifle bearing the Czarist crest".Yet Waziristan is greatly changed.
In October of that year, the German magazine Der Spiegel, citing Snowden's archives, reported that the NSA had established a "spy hub" in Berlin, where the agency reportedly listened in on the cellphone conversations of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Despite these new regulations, Venetian archives reported occasional problems in health services of the islands because of poorly trained health officers, who were elected from the local upper class and were eager to acquire greater political autonomy.
This archive report from 2005 shows the SDLP's Alasdair McDonnell winning the South Belfast Westminster seat, after a split in the unionist vote allows him through.
Back in May, the social network introduced Ad Archive, a searchable database of political ads in the U.S. It's following up the feature with a new Ad Archive Report, a weekly snapshot of political spending.
Integrated regional information network Short, frequently updated and extensively archived reports from most African countries, courtesy of the UN.
Thanks to my colleague Phil Lewis who unearthed the front pages and archived reports for this live blog.
Read some of the Observer's archive reports here Nelson Mandela acknowledged Astor and the Observer's contribution on Astor's death 12 years ago, when he said: "Under him, the Observer supported the African National Congress from the early years of apartheid, when we most needed it and when most newspapers ignored it.
I have seen archived reports going back 30 years talking about this strategy.
