The first historic photographs to be saved from the Express & Star photo archive have been digitised and made available to the public via a free website.

If you are interested in the project to digitise the photos from the Express & Star archive, or just like seeing images from the history of the Black Country, Staffordshire and Birmingham, you can follow us on social media.

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.

The Express & Star Photo Archive project was fortunate to gain the support of Hazel Jones, who worked for the newspaper during the 1940s. Before her death in 2017, we were grateful that she gave the time to be interviewed about her memories. This article appeared in the newspaper in 2016. A former Express & […]

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.)

Two sisters had a pleasant surprise when they spotted a rare picture of their late brother on the Express & Star’s new archive system.

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.