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Full-text, word-searchable newspapers and journals

Title Brief Description Format
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Entire Burney Collection of newspapers in a full-text, fully searchable digital archive. 1271 individual titles: London and provincial newsbooks, newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets and single-sheet ephemera, 1600 to 1800.
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19th century British Library Newspapers Part of the British Library Newspapers collection, 19th Century British Library Newspapers provides researchers with the most comprehensive collection of national and regional newspapers of Victorian Britain available. This full-text, fully searchable digital archive includes 46 papers originating in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, carefully selected by an editorial board from the British Library and providing a broad yet detailed view of British life in the 19th century.
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HE and FE institutions can sign up for this unique resource.
19th Century UK Periodicals Series 1: New Readerships. Includes publications on women, children, leisure and sport, and humour. Access to 1.2 million periodical pages, with full runs of titles when possible, covering 1800 to 1900. The database includes a number of Colindale titles such as Bell's Life in London, John Bull, The Lady's Newspaper and Pictorial Times, Le Follet, The Sporting Gazette and The Sporting Times.
Series 2: Empire: Travel and Anthropology, Economics, Missionary and Colonial. Access to over 1 million periodical pages, with complete runs of 91 periodicals documenting Britain’s role as an imperial power throughout the nineteenth century.
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Online resource
Aberdeen Press & Journal 1999 - Full text of articles from the Aberdeen Press & Journal, the regional daily newspaper published in Aberdeen.
Access World News
(NewsBank)
Provides full text of articles from a wide range of US national, regional and local papers, and also key international newspapers and transcripts of broadcast news and newswires. This database excludes paid advertisements and photographs. The product has a source list giving full details of all of the titles included and the date ranges covered.
Online resource
African Newspapers, 1800-1922 Part of Readex’s World Newspaper Archive. When complete, African Newspapers will include over 30 fully searchable African newspapers. The online archive is presently under construction. Four separate newspaper titles published in Zimbabwe, Kenya and South Africa in the 19th and early 20th centuries are currently available to search.
Online resource
Australian Newspapers beta
(The National Library of Australia)
This site from the National Library of Australia allows you to search and view historic Australian newspaper pages from 1803 -1954 digitised as part of the Australian Newspaper Digitisation Project. The site is still in its Beta (i.e. test and development) phase and contains a relatively small amount of data at present.
This site is freely available on the Internet.
Online resource
The Banker
1 April 2005
Full text of articles from the monthly UK journal providing global financial intelligence to the international banking and finance community.
Belfast Telegraph 2002 Full text of articles from the Belfast Telegraph, regional daily newspaper published in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Birmingham Post 1998 - Full text of articles from the Birmingham Post, the regional daily broadsheet newspaper serving Birmingham and the surrounding area.
The Bristol Evening Post
From 10/6/99 available in NewsBank
Full text of articles from the Bristol Evening Post, the regional evening newspaper published in Bristol.
British Newspapers 1600-1900 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection newspapers and 19th Century British Library Newspapers in a full-text, fully cross-searchable digital archive. 1271 Burney titles: London and provincial newsbooks, newspapers, periodicals and other material, 1600-1800; 46 newspapers from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, 1800-1900. Each database is also separately searchable.
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Burney Newspapers: 17th and 18th Century Collection Entire Burney Collection of newspapers in a full-text, fully searchable digital archive. 1271 individual titles: London and provincial newsbooks, newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets and single-sheet ephemera, 1600 to 1800.
NB: If printing an article, choose one of the PDF formats rather than HTML.
Burnley Express 3 Sept 2004 - Full text of articles from the Burnley Express, the long established regional bi-weekly paper published in Burnley.
Campaign
1 April 2005 -
Full text of articles from the weekly UK trade publication for advertising and media personnel.
Chicago Tribune 1985 - Full text of articles from the Chicago Tribune, the US daily newspaper published in Chicago , Illinois.
Chicago Tribune RedEye edition Full text of articles from the RedEye edition of the Chicago Tribune, the US daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois. The RedEye is intended to meet the needs of Chicago's young City dwellers giving concise news reports in a commuter-friendly format.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers This site from the Library of Congress allows you to search and view American newspaper pages from 1817 -1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690 and the present.
This site is freely available on the Internet.
Online resource
Coventry Evening Telegraph
27 Nov 2000 -
Full text of articles from the Coventry Evening Telegraph, the regional evening newspaper published in Coventry.
Daily Express 20th Century Archive 1900 - 2000 Part of UKpressonline, the archive of the popular UK national newspaper, the Daily Express, is now under construction. Around 180,000 pages covering selected dates between 1900 and 1982 are currently available. When complete the archive will provide full coverage of the Daily Express from 1900 to 2000.
Daily Express / Sunday Express Full text of articles from the Daily Express, the UK national daily tabloid newspaper published in London and its sister paper, the Sunday Express.
The Daily Mail
1993
1994
1995
1996 - 1997
In NewsBank 1998 -
Full text of articles from Daily Mail, the national daily tabloid. Also includes Mail on Sunday, Weekend and Night & Day magazines. Excludes certain copyright material.
The Daily Mirror
1992 - 1997
1998
1999
Available in NewsBank
2000 -
Full text of articles from Daily Mirror, the national daily tabloid. Also includes its sister paper, Sunday Mirror.
Daily Mirror Digital Archive
1903 -
Text searchable access to full page facsimiles of the entire archive of the Daily Mirror, the UK national tabloid newspaper, from 1903 to the present day.
Daily Post (Liverpool)
From 2002 available in NewsBank
Full text of articles from the Daily Post, regional daily newspaper published in Liverpool.
The Daily Record (Glasgow)
1994-99

From 2000 onwards available in
NewsBank
Full text of articles from Daily Record, the Scottish daily tabloid. Also includes its sister paper, Sunday Mail.
Available from the standalone terminal in the Newspaper reading room.
Daily Star / Star Sunday Part of UKpressonline, the archive provides text searchable access to full facsimiles of the popular tabloid newspapers, the Daily Star May 2000 to date and the Star Sunday September 2002 to date.
The Daily Telegraph
1996 - 2000
Available in NewsBank
2001 -
Full text of the national daily broadsheet newspaper and its sister paper, Sunday Telegraph.
Early American Newspapers Series I (1690-1876) Reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers, providing more than one million pages as fully text-searchable facsimile images. The collection is based largely on Clarence Brigham's "History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820".
The Economist
1992 to present
Available in NewsBank 1998 -
Full text of the weekly periodical which covers politics, economics, business, finance, science and technology. Also includes The Economist Index, providing subject access to information published in the periodical.
Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2003 The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003 ('EHA') is the fully searchable complete facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper which is essential reading for anyone engaged in politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide. In 8,000 issues and more than 600,000 pages, EHA offers full-colour images, multiple search indexes, topic and area supplements and surveys, together with a gallery of front covers and a selection of exportable financial tables.
Edinburgh Evening News (Scotland) 2002 Full text of articles from the Evening News, regional evening newspaper published in Edinburgh.
Eighteenth Century Journals I, II, and III, c1685-1815 The Portal to Newspapers and Periodicals c1685-1815 offers seamless, integrated access to Sections I, II and III of our digital project Eighteenth Century Journals. This Portal brings together rare journals printed between c1685 and 1815, illuminating all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life.

Eighteenth Century Journals I contains material from the Hope Collection at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, one of the finest surviving collections of eighteenth-century periodicals. In this resource we have drawn together 95 rare journals printed between 1693 and 1799, combining major publications with more ephemeral works to underline the broad variety of eighteenth century print journalism. The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center holds one of the finest collections of 17th and 18th century newspapers and periodicals in the world, and it was from here that items for Eighteenth Century Journals II were selected. These holdings were documented in ‘British Newspapers and Periodicals, 1632-1800’, compiled by Powell Stewart in 1950. More recent acquisitions have further enhanced these collections. Materials for Eighteenth Century Journals III are drawn from two sources: the British Newspaper Library at Colindale, London and Cambridge University Library. This section focuses on journals published outside of London. The inclusion of Canadian, Caribbean and Indian journals allows users to explore the ways in which major world events were reported in different areas of the globe. There are also a large number of Irish journals and British provincial publications.

Online resource
Evening Mail (Birmingham)
25 Nov 2000 -
Full text of articles from the Evening Mail, regional evening newspaper serving Birmingham and the surrounding area.
Evening Standard (London) Full text of articles from the Evening Standard, London- based, mid-market tabloid evening newspaper serving Greater London and surrounding area.
Evening Times (Glasgow) Full text of articles from the Evening Times, regional evening newspaper serving Greater Glasgow and surrounding area.
Express Group 21st Century Part of UKpressonline, the archive provides text searchable access to full page facsimiles of the popular tabloid newspapers Daily Express / Sunday Express May 2000 to date, the Daily Star May 2000 to date and Star Sunday September 2002 to date.
The Financial Times
1982 to date available from NewsBank
Full text of the UK national daily broadsheet newspaper. Excludes the largely tabular sections such as the World Stock Markets and the London Stock Exchange and other price data.

Online resource

Gallica – La presse quotidienne Gallica, the digital library of the Bibliothéque nationale de France, hosts numerous newspaper titles from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Titles currently include Le Figaro (1830-1942), Le Temps (1861-1935), La Croix (1883-1944), L'Humanité (1904-1944), La Presse (1836-1858), and Le Journal des débats (1814-1912).
This resource is freely available on the Internet.
Online resource
The Gazette (Blackpool) Full text of articles from The Gazette, the regional daily paper published in Blackpool. Circulates in Blackpool and Flyde. Online resource
The Guardian
1990, 1991 , 1992 , 1993,
1994, 1995, 1996, 1997
Available via NewsBank 1998 -
Full text of the national daily broadsheet newspaper. Also includes its sister Sunday newspaper, the Observer (from 1994). The CD excludes price data and certain copyright material.
The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003) Offers full facsimile page and article images with word searchable text back to the first issue of The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003). Part of Pro Quest Historical Newspapers. Online resource
Harrogate Advertiser
31 Aug 2004 -
Full text of articles from the Harrogate Advertiser, the regional weekly paper published in Harrogate.
Herald / Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 1998 - Full text of articles from The Herald, the Scottish national daily broadsheet published in Glasgow and its sister paper, The Sunday Herald.
Hull Daily Mail
6 Nov 1999 -
Full text of articles from the Hull Daily Mail, regional daily newspaper serving the city of Hull and its outlying areas, including Beverley, Cottingham, Hornsea and villages across East Yorkshire.
The Independent
1991 - 1995
1996 - 1997
Available in NewsBank
1998 -
Full text of the national daily broadsheet newspaper. Also includes its sister paper, The Independent on Sunday (from 1991).
The Independent on Sunday
1991 -
The International Herald Tribune
1994 - 1995
1996
1997
1998
Full text of the daily international broadsheet newspaper (published in Paris) which provides coverage of world news.
Internet Library of Early Journals ILEJ is a joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford. The core collection includes runs of at least 20 consecutive years of The Annual Register, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, The Builder, The Gentleman's Magazine, Notes and Queries and the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Irish Independent / Sunday Independent
2001 -
Full text of articles from the Irish Independent, Irish national daily newspaper published in Dublin and its sister paper, the Sunday Independent.
Irish Newspaper Archive Irish Newspaper Archives is the largest online database of Irish newspapers in the world. The archive dates from 1763 to the present and includes a mix of out of print titles and current titles, providing word- searchable access to articles or full pages. Titles include the Anglo-Celt Feb 1846-2004, City Tribune (Galway) 1984-2007, Connacht Sentinel Aug 1927 – May 2007, Connacht Tribune May 1909 – Apr 2008, Freeman’s Journal (Dublin) 1763-1924, Irish Farmers Journal (Dublin) Mar 1957 – 1998, Irish Independent (Dublin) 1905-2001, Letrim Observer 1904-1920; 1923-1998, Meath Chronicle May 1897-Nov 2007, Munster Express 1908; 1911; 1913; 1916; 1920; 1922 – 2004 (with gaps), Nation (Dublin) Oct 1842- June 1897, Southern Star (Skibberdeen, Co. Cork) Feb 1892-2007 and Tuam Herald 1994-2000.
Irish Times 1998 - Full text of articles from the Irish Times, the Irish national daily newspaper published in Dublin.
The Irish Times (1859-2008) and the Weekly Irish Times (1876-1958)
Offers full facsimile page and article images with word searchable text back to the first issue of both the Irish Times (1859-2006) and the Weekly Irish Times (1876-1958). Part of Pro Quest Historical Newspapers.
The Jerusalem Post
1990 - 1997
1998 - 2003
Full text of the daily newspaper (published in Jerusalem).
The Journal de Genève 1826 - 1998 A digital edition of The Journal de Genève, the French-language daily paper, published in Geneva. Searches may be carried out by keyword, date or period, with the possibility to limit a search by period or content (articles, titles of articles, images, advertising). You can then view the page or the specific item you want.
This resource is freely available on the Internet.
Lancaster Guardian 2 Sept 2004 - Full text of articles from the Lancaster Guardian, the regional daily paper published in Lancaster.
Leicester Mercury
6 Oct 1999 -
Full text of articles from the Leicester Mercury, regional daily newspaper published in Leicester.
Liverpool Echo 2002 - Full text of articles from the Liverpool Echo, regional evening newspaper published in Liverpool.
Los Angeles Times
1 Jan 1985 -
Full text of articles from the US daily paper published in Los Angeles.
The Mail on Sunday
1993 -
Manchester Evening News 2001 - Full text of articles from the Manchester Evening News, regional evening newspaper published in Manchester.
The New York Times
1991 - 1997
1998 - 2001
From 2000 available in NewsBank
Full text of the daily US newspaper.
The New York Times (1851-2006)
Offers full facsimile page and article images with word searchable text back to the first issue of the New York Times (1851-2006). Part of Pro Quest Historical Newspapers.
New York Times Book Review 2000- Full text of articles from the Book Review section of the Sunday edition of the New York Times.
New York Times Magazine 2000 - Full text of articles from the New York Times Magazine, a supplement to the Sunday edition of the New York Times.
News of the World 1996 - Full text of articles from the News of the World, the UK national Sunday tabloid newspaper published in London. Highest circulation of any newspaper in the UK.
NewsBank Newspapers U.K., Ireland and U.S.A Full-text articles from 19 UK national newspapers and over 140 UK & Irish regional and local newspapers and periodicals. Search single titles or search multiple titles simultaneously. The UK national titles include the Financial Times from 1982 onwards and The Times from 1985 onwards. Three US titles are also included the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune.
Newsletter (Belfast) Full text of articles from the News Letter, the Northern Irish regional daily newspaper published in Belfast.
NewspaperSG (The National Library of Singapore) An online resource of digitised historic newspapers from Singapore and Malaya. Site allows you to search the digital archive of papers published between 1831 and 1989 and includes The Straits Times 1845-1989. You can also find information about the National Library of Singapore’s microfilmed newspapers. All images are watermarked and the image quality is variable. British Library Newspapers (Colindale) holds most of the digitised titles on microfilm.
This site is freely available on the Internet.
The Nineteenth Century Serials Edition (ncse) The Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (ncse) is a free, online edition of six nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers. ncse includes full runs of the first five titles, and a decade only of the Publishers' Circular. Titles are represented as completely as possible, including multiple editions, advertisements, wrappers, and supplements where these could be found. Titles are:
Monthly Repository (1806-1837) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Northern Star (1838-1852), Leader (1850-1860), English Woman's Journal (1858-1864), Tomahawk (1867-1870), and Publishers' Circular (1880-1890). All six journals are segmented to article level, and can be downloaded freely.
This site is freely available on the Internet.
Northampton Chronicle and Echo 5 Oct 2004 - Full text of articles from the Northampton Chronicle and Echo, the regional evening paper published in Northampton.
The Northern Echo (Darlington)
1999 onwards available in NewsBank
Full text of the regional daily newspaper (published in Darlington, Co. Durham).
Nottingham Evening Post
13 Nov 2002 -
Full text of articles from the Nottingham Evening Post, the regional evening paper published in Nottingham.
The Observer
1994, 1995, 1996, 1997
Available via NewsBank 1998 -

Full text of the national Sunday broadsheet newspaper, published in London.
Papers Past (The National Library of New Zealand)
Papers Past contains more than one million pages of digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals. The collection covers the years 1840 to 1915 and includes publications from all regions of New Zealand.
This site is freely available on the Internet.
Online resource
People 2000 - Full text of articles from The People, the UK national Sunday tabloid newspaper published in London.
Portsmouth Evening News
20 Sept 2004 -
Full text of articles from the Portsmouth Evening News, the regional evening paper published in Portsmouth.
Pro Quest Historical Newspapers Offers full facsimile page and article images with word searchable text of The Guardian (1821-2003), The Observer (1791-2003), the New York Times (1851-2006), the Irish Times (1859-2006), the Weekly Irish Times (1876-1958) and The Scotsman (1817-1950). Cross searching across all of these titles is available.
Scotland On Sunday
1998 -
See Scotsman.
The Scotsman 1998 -
Full text of the Scottish daily newspaper. Also includes its sister paper, Scotland on Sunday.
The Scotsman 1817 - 1950 Offers full facsimile page and article images with word searchable text back to the first issue of The Scotsman (1817-1950). Part of Pro Quest Historical Newspapers.
The South Wales Echo
2002 onwards available in NewsBank
Full text of articles from the Welsh regional daily newspaper published in Cardiff.
Sun 1996 - Full text of articles from the Sun, the UK national daily tabloid newspaper published in London. Second highest circulation newspaper in the UK.
The Sunday Herald (Glasgow)
2000 -
See Herald.
The Sunday Mail
2000 onwards available in NewsBank
Full text of articles from the Scottish Sunday tabloid published in Glasgow.
Sunday Mercury (Birmingham)
26 Nov 2000 -
Full text of articles from the Sunday Mercury, regional Sunday newspaper published in Birmingham.
The Sunday Mirror 1992 -
The Sunday Telegraph
1991 -
The Sunday Times
Available from NewsBank 1985 -
Full text of the national newspaper.
The Sydney Morning Herald
1992, 1993 , 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
Available from Fairfax Digital Editions 2006 -

Good Weekend
1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004

Full text of the Australian daily newspaper (published in Sydney).
From April 2007, the CD-ROM is replaced by an online version which provides a full digital facsimile edition of the printed newspaper.

For the Fairfax Digital Edition, please click the Access Online Archive button and then the broadband button.

 

Good Weekend is the Saturday magazine supplement to the Sydney Morning Herald.

Time Archive
1923 to date
Full text of articles from Time, the weekly news magazine, published in New York. Covers January 1923 to the present day.
This resource is freely available on the Internet.
The Times
Available from NewsBank 1985 -
Full text of the national daily newspaper.
Times Digital Archive A digital edition of The Times, using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page.
The Times Educational Supplement
1994 - 2001
Full text of the weekly periodical that provides news and editorial comment about education. Also includes Times Higher Educational Supplement (THES) covering higher education.
The Times Higher Education Supplement 1994 - 2001
The Times Literary Supplement
1994 - 2003
Full text of the weekly literary review.
TLS Centenary Archive Archive of articles and book reviews from the Times Literary Supplement. The identity of most of the original reviewers is revealed for the first time.
UKpressonline Ukpressonline provides text searchable access to full page facsimiles of some of the UK’s biggest selling popular newspapers of the 20th and 21st centuries. The archive is currently under construction but already complete are the Daily Mirror 1903 to date, Daily Express / Sunday Express May 2000 to date, the Daily Star May 2000 to date, and the Star Sunday September 2002 to date.
The Daily Express 20th Century Archives is now under construction and around 180,000 pages covering selected dates between 1900 and 1982 are also currently available.
Wales on Sunday 2002 -
Washington Post 1977 - Full text of articles from the Washington Post, US daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C.
The Western Daily Press
1999 -
From 1999 onwards, the Western Daily Press and the Bristol Evening Post are included in the NewsBank Newspapers database.
The Western Mail
2002 -
The Western Mail, South Wales Echo and Wales on Sunday from 2002 onwards are included in the NewsBank Newspapers database.

Western Morning News Full text of articles from the Western Morning News, the regional daily newspaper published in Plymouth.
Yorkshire Evening Post
28 Aug 2004 -
Full text of articles from the Yorkshire Evening Post, the long established regional evening paper published in Leeds. Circulates throughout Leeds, Wakefield, Harrogate, Selby, Kirkless and Bradford.
Yorkshire Post
28 Aug 2004 -
Full text of articles from the Yorkshire Post, the regional daily paper published in Leeds. Circulates throughout Yorkshire and Humberside.