Newspapers: a guide to the shelfmarks of the major UK national newspapers in the British Library's newspaper collection at Colindale.
This is a quick checklist of the major UK national newspapers in the British Library's newspaper collection at Colindale. It also includes the major evening newspapers published in London. The list is arranged alphabetically by title and provides the date range of our holding of a title, the shelfmark, and brief information concerning incorporations, amalgamations and title changes. For a full record of our holdings of each title and to find out how up-to-date we are with any specific title, you must check the Newspaper Catalogue subset of the British Library's Integrated Catalogue. For titles not shown on the list, you should also check the Newspapers subset of the Integrated Catalogue.
| Title | Date range | Shelfmark | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bell's Life in London | 1822 – 1886 | MLD14 | |
| Daily Chronicle | 1872 – May 1930 | MLD10 | Incorporated with Daily News and published as News Chronicle in 1930 |
| Daily Express | 1900 to date | MLD3 | |
| Daily Graphic | 1890 – 1926 | MLD22 | Incorporated with Daily Sketch in 1926 |
| Daily Herald | 1911 – 1964 | MLD5 | Re-launched as Sun in 1964 |
| Daily Mail | 1896 to date | MLD6 | |
| Daily Mirror | 1903 to date | MLD4 | |
| Daily News | 1846 – 1930 | MLD10 | Incorporated with Daily Chronicle and published as News Chronicle in 1930 |
| Daily Sketch | 1909 – 1971 | MLD19 | Incorporated with Daily Mail in 1971 |
| Daily Sport / The Sport | 1988 to date | MLD11D | |
| Daily Star | 1978 to date | MLD3B | |
| Daily Telegraph | 1855 to date | MLD7 | |
| Daily Worker | 1930 – 1966 | MLD20 | Continues as Morning Star |
| Evening News | 1881 – 1987 | MLD23 | |
| Evening Standard | 1860 to date | MLD24 | |
| Examiner | 1808 – 1881 | MLD63 | |
| Financial News | 1884 – 1945 | MLD56 | Incorporated with Financial Times in 1945 |
| Financial Times | 1888 to date | MLD11 | |
| Globe | 1803 – 1921 | MLD27 | Incorporated with Pall Mall Gazette in 1921 |
| Graphic | 1869 – 1932 | MLD46 | |
| Guardian | 1821 to date | MLD | Originally titled Manchester Guardian until 1959 |
| Illustrated London News | 1842 – 1968 | MLD47 | |
| Illustrated Sunday Herald | 1915 – 1927 | MLD36 | Continues as Sunday Graphic |
| Independent | 1986 to date | MLD11A | |
| Independent on Sunday | 1989 – 1990 | MLD44F | From Jan 1991 onwards with Independent at MLD11A |
| Lloyd's Illustrated London Newspaper (later Lloyd's Sunday News) | 1842 – 1931 | MLD37 | Incorporated with Sunday Graphic in 1931 |
| Mail on Sunday | 1982 to date | MLD44A | |
| Morning Chronicle | 1801 – 1862 | MLD16 | Earlier issues from 1770-1800 in the Early English Newspapers collection |
| Morning Post | 1801 – 1937 | MLD9 | Earlier issues (1772-1800) in Early English Newspapers collection. Incorporated with the Daily Telegraph in 1937 |
| Morning Star | 1966 to date | MLD20 | Continuation of the Daily Worker |
| News Chronicle | 1930 – 1960 | MLD10 | Incorporated with Daily Mail in 1960 |
| News of the World | 1843 to date | MLD34 | |
| Observer | 1791 to date | MLD39 | |
| Pall Mall Gazette | 1865 – 1923 | MLD28 | Incorporated with Evening Standard in 1923 |
| People / Sunday People | 1881 to date | MLD35 | |
| Picture Post | 1938 – 1957 | MLD51A | |
| Reynolds's Weekly Newspaper | 1850 – 1962 | MLD43 | Continues as Sunday Citizen |
| St James's Gazette | 1880 – 1905 | MLD33 | Incorporated with the Evening Standard |
| Sphere | 1900 – 1964 | LD48 | |
| Sporting Life | 1859 – 1998 | MLD12 | |
| Standard | 1827 – 1916 | MLD15 | |
| Star (London evening paper) | 1888 – 1960 | MLD26 | |
| Sun | 1964 to date | MLD5 | |
| Sunday Business | 1996 to date | MLD44G | |
| Sunday Dispatch | 1928 – 1961 | MLD38 | Continuation of Weekly Dispatch |
| Sunday Express | 1918 – 1996 | MLD42 | From Oct 1996 onwards with Daily Express at MLD3 |
| Sunday Graphic | 1927 – 1960 | MLD36 | Continuation of Illustrated Sunday Herald |
| Sunday Mirror | 1963 to date | MLD44 | Continuation of Sunday Pictorial |
| Sunday Pictorial | 1915 – 1963 | MLD44 | Continues as Sunday Mirror |
| Sunday Telegraph | 1961 – 1974 | MLD41 | From 1975 onwards with Daily Telegraph at MLD7 |
| Sunday Times | 1822 to date | MLD40 | |
| Times | 1785 – 1874 | MLD1 | Issues for 1875 onwards on Open Access |
| Today | 1986 – 1995 | MLD4A | |
| Weekly Dispatch | 1801 – 1928 | MLD38 | Continues as Sunday Dispatch |
| Westminster Budget | 1893 – 1904 | MLD29 | |
| Westminster Gazette | 1893 – 1928 | MLD31 | Incorporated with Daily News in 1928 |
British Library Newspapers
September 2007
