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A keepsake front page for 1986: Halley's Comet as the lead photograph and story, more of the year's stories below, and a strip of that year's facts, names and prices.
Shown: Kate, 19 April 1986, The Daily Chronicle.

The faint “preview” marks are on this screen only — your print arrives without them.

Personalised print

The year, as a newspaper front page

From $36.50

Delivery C$10 per order · free on orders of C$80+

A look back at the whole year, set as a British front page. It is not an original newspaper from one day. Every story, price and name on this page happened in the year you choose. Set it for a birthday, an anniversary, a new home, or write your own banner, and the paper sets itself around it.

You'll need

A year, and a name or a date to print on the masthead if you like.

Prefer the sky that night? The Star Map uses a date and a place.

Make it yours Every look and finishing touch, previewed as you tap - open to see them all
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Textures and tile effects are printed as part of the artwork.

Delivery C$10 per order · free on orders of C$80+. Most orders arrive within 6 to 12 working days.

Two items save 5% and three or more save 10%, on any mix of designs and products except group sets. The saving comes off automatically at checkout, does not combine with discount codes, and free delivery counts the total after it.

Buy two, save 5%. Buy three or more, save 10%. Any designs and products, taken off in the basket.

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Protective packaging, with no receipt or invoice inside. Use the recipient's name and delivery address at checkout. Items may arrive in separate parcels.

For overseas deliveries, customs paperwork may show the value.

By ordering you confirm the words and names you added are yours to use.

  • You see the finished design before you order.
  • For two hours after ordering you can change it from the link in your order email. Then it goes to print.
  • When it ships, we email you the tracking link.
  • Uncoated matte paper, 200 gsm (170 gsm in the 30x45 frame). Frames are wood, glazed with plexiglass, and arrive ready to hang. Unframed prints ship rolled in a tube.
  • Made to order and printed in Canada. No import fees.
  • A person replies to every message within two working days. Contact us
  • If it arrives misprinted or damaged, send us a photo and we reprint it free.

One year, told properly

Set from our own archive: the lead story and its photograph, fifteen or more further stories, the monarch and the prime minister, the song and the film, the names born that year, and what a loaf, a pint and a stamp actually cost. Printed to order.

  • Everything on the page happened that year. The lead story, the photographs, the songs, the films, the prices in the shops: all of it drawn from our own year archive, one year at a time. Nothing invented.
  • What things cost, in the money of the day. A loaf, a pint of milk, a pint of beer, a stamp, a gallon of petrol and the average wage — in shillings and pence before 1971, in pence after.
  • A birthday, an anniversary, a new home, or your own words. The banner, the paper's name and the year badge are yours to set. Give the paper your own name if you like.

What to expect

Delivery
Delivery C$10 per order · free on orders of C$80+. Most orders arrive within 6 to 12 working days.
If it arrives wrong
If your print arrives damaged, misprinted or not as you approved it, send us a photo and we reprint it free of charge.
Made for you
Personalised items cannot be returned because you changed your mind. Your statutory rights still apply if an item is faulty, damaged, or not as described.

Questions

Which years can I choose?
Any year from 1925 to 2025 — a hundred and one of them, each with its own front page built from that year's real events, people and prices. We build the archive a year at a time and only add a year once it has finished, so 2026 joins after it ends. Stories are dated to the day wherever the record has one; the prices and almanac figures are the year's own, not one date's.
Where do the photographs come from?
Wikimedia Commons, chosen for the year and credited on the page with the photographer and licence. A year whose photographs are all difficult subjects prints with fewer pictures and more stories.
Will it lead on something grim?
No. The lead story is always a gentle one where the year has one. Harder events still appear further down, because they were part of the year, but they never take the front.