Users can browse and search almost 50,000 pages of the paper online, gaining remarkable insight into a crucial period of 20th century history -- from the stormy years leading up to world war ii, to the launch of the first satellite in space in 1957. Not only an invaluable resource for students, instructors and researchers of media, journalism, history and photography, The Picture Post Historical Archive is also a heritage collection providing excellent and highly visual primary source material for family and british history researchers. For users who already have access to other gale digitized newspapers and periodicals, such as The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003 and The Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985, this collection provides additional avenues and in-roads into research of the period. Users are able to cross-search The Picture Post Historical Archive with other gale historical newspapers on the new, cross-searchable platform, Gale Newsvault, increasing the depth and breadth of their research.