A ‘kind generous and dedicated’ archivist with a passion for education and the preservation of local history has died.

VOLUNTEERS who are working to preserve thousands of Express & Star photographs from years gone by for future generations have been thanked for their efforts.

A former Express & Star librarian who was responsible for cataloguing thousands of precious photographs has died aged 90.

He is the greatest boxer of all time – and one Black Country family have fond memories of their time with Muhammad Ali. (This article was originally published in the Express & Star in 2015, before the boxing legend’s death in June 2016.)

Students from the University of Wolverhampton had the chance to handle historic photos from the archive of the Express & Star as part of the annual freshers fair.

Historic photographs from the Express & Star’s archive were the star of a special day.

Volunteers have been sampling sections of the Express & Star photo archive as part of the project to digitise the collection.

Plans to digitise the Express & Star’s photo archive have taken another step forward with the appointment of experts to develop community projects to explore the historic collection. Specialist heritage agency Tricolor has been selected to develop ideas which will get the widest possible usage of the images, which will be digitised and uploaded to […]

The bid to save the Express & Star’s archive of historic photographs has taken another step forward with the donation of £20,000 to the project.

An ambitious plan to make more than 750,000 photographs, spanning 140 years of West Midland history, available to the public has been given lottery backing.