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African Newspapers Series 2, 1835-1925
African Newspapers Series 1, 1800-1922
Arctic today ArcticToday is the comprehensive news source reporting on the Arctic, from the Arctic. An independent digital news site, ArcticToday partners with media organizations from around the circumpolar north, offering readers on-the-ground reporting, international news, features and community perspectives from one of the world’s fastest-changing regions.
Asahi Shimbun Digital
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Atlanta Daily World (1931-2010)
Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988)
Biblioteca Nacional Digital Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal digital collection including Portuguese newspapers from 17th to 20th centuries
British Periodicals Facsimile page images and searchable full text for nearly 500 British periodicals published from the 17th through the early 20th centuries. Topics covered in the various titles include literature, philosophy, history, science, fine arts, social sciences, music, art, drama, archaeology, and architecture.
Burney Collection: Seventeenth-Eighteenth century newspapers The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. The present digital collection, that helps chart the development of the concept of 'news' and 'newspapers' and the "free press", totals almost 1 million pages and contains approximately 1,270 titles. Many of the Burney newspapers are well known, but many pamphlets and broadsides also included have remained largely hidden.
Chicago Defender (1909-2010)
Chicago Tribune This historical newspaper complete from 1845 to 1995.
Chronicling America: Historic American newspapers
Cleveland Call & Post (1934-1991)
Compact Memory: German-Jewish Periodicals and Newspapers from the 18th to 20th centuries
Daily Express Archive The Daily Express archive (from ukpress online) is a fully searchable database of the newspaper. Here you can view, download and print historic pages from Daily Express newspaper dating back to 1900. The Sunday Express is also available from 2000.
Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2016
Daily Star Archive The Daily Star Archive archive is a fully searchable database of the newspaper. Here you can view, download and print pages from Daily Star newspaper dating back to 2000. The Daily Star Sunday is also available, complete from 2002
Donetsk and Luhansk newspaper e-collection
DRUM magazine Drum Magazine was once the most widely read magazine in Africa. Its journalists influenced political outcomes and are credited with changing the way Black South African, Indian, and Multiracial communities were represented in society.
DRUM magazine Drum Magazine was once the most widely read magazine in Africa. Its journalists influenced political outcomes and are credited with changing the way Black South African, Indian, and Multiracial communities were represented in society.
Early American Newspapers Series 1-19 (America’s Historical Newspapers)
Economist Historical Archive The Economist Historical Archive delivers a complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2011. Full-colour images, multiple search indexes, and the facility to browse each and every issue - all combine to offer a unique primary source covering the 19th and 20th centuries.
Exilpresse digital: Deutsche Exilzeitschriften 1933-1945
Financial Times FT Historical Archive, 1888-2021
Gallica Begun in 1997 as the major digitization project at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Gallica includes full-text and page-images of hundreds of thousands of volumes from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the twentieth century, with an emphasis on nineteenth-century material. Designed as the digital repository of French culture, Gallica covers virtually all areas of human inquiry, in particular history, literature, science, philosophy, law, economics, and political science. Gallica contains dictionaries and encyclopedias; journals, newspapers, and other periodicals; pamphlets; theater; poetry; novels and other prose texts; manuscripts; recordings; and images. Various collections compose "Les Dossiers de Gallica," such as Gallica Classique (Garnier editions), le dossier Proust, Voyages en France, Voyages en Afrique, La Bibliothèque de Voltaire à la Bibliothèque nationale de Russie, Le Rêve d'Emile Zola dans tous ses états, le dossier Utopie, Le dossier "Sociétés Savantes (d'Aquitaine et de Lorraine), and an audio collection, La Voix sur Gallica (poetry and politics).
Guardian (1821-2003) & Observer (1791-2003) This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Hemeroteca Digital Hemeroteca Municipal de Lisboa, digital collection of newspapers and magazines. Coverage includes titles from 1715 to 1993 in Portuguese language
Illustrated London News Historical Archive (1842-2003) The full facsimile run of the world’s most iconic illustrated newspaper
Independent Historical Archive, 1986-2021
Independent voices Independent Voices is an open access collection of digitized alternative press newspapers, magazines, and journals published in the United States in the latter half of the twentieth century, mostly in the 1960s and 1970s. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, and the extreme right-wing press. The collection also includes alternative literary magazines, known as “little magazines,” which published experimental and avant-garde works
International Herald Tribune Historical Archive 1887-2013
Irish Newspaper Archive
Irish Times Newspaper Archive Access to the archive is currently unavailable. The publisher is aware of the problem and is working to fix the issue.
Over 150 years of Irish times journalism, as it originally appeared in print. Searchable by keyword and date, reproductions of every page of the Irish Times from 1859 up to the last 7 days. Please note the newspaper archive is separate from irishtimes.com; our access is to the archive only.
Izvestiia Digital Archive Daily newspaper published until 1991
Krokodil Digital Archive Satirical magazine
Listener Historical Archive 1929-1991
Literaturnaia gazeta digital archive A weekly cultural and political newspaper
London Review of Books
Los Angeles Sentinel‎ (1934-2005)

Mail on Sunday Historical Archive, 1982-2011

Maisaku 毎索 Archives of the Mainichi shinbun from 1872 to the present. In addition to the regular Japanese newspaper, the database also includes the English-language ‘The Mainichi’ since 2008, the weekly ‘Ekonomisuto’ since 1989, and searchable ‘Yoron chôsa’ from 1945 to 2017
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Mass Media in Russia, 1908-1918 Collection of kopeck (penny) newspapers
Michigan Chronicle
Mirror Historical Archive, 1903-2000
Nashriyah:digital Iranian history These newspapers and periodicals, many of which have been only partially accessible inside Iran, cover the defining moments from the premiership of Mohammad Mossadegh and the August 1953 coup d'état against his government (1950-53); the 1979 Revolution; and the late 1990s/early 2000s ‘reform era’ of former President Mohammad Khatami.
Naver Digital News Archive Digital archive of 4 major news papers in South Korea: Kyonghyang Sinmun, Tonga Ilbo, Maeil Kyongje, and Han'gyore. Images and electronic texts are available with full-text search.
NewspaperCat An online database providing links to over 1,000 full-text digital newspapers in the United States and Caribbean.
NewspaperSG: National Library of Singapore
New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993)
New York Times, The (1851-2020) This database contains all issues of the New York Times, 1851-2020, in full text, full image forms, including news, illustrations, editorial matter, and advertising.
Nineteenth Century British Newspapers The 19th Century British Newspapers collection contains full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain. This new collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection.
Nineteenth Century British Newspapers, Part II
Nineteenth century serials edition (NCSE) The Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (ncse) is a free, online edition of six nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers.
Nineteenth century U.S. Newspapers
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals: Series 1 - New Readerships Nineteenth-century periodical literature of interest to historians and students of nineteenth-century literature and culture, empire, feminism, the history of the book, the creative and performing arts, sport and leisure, science and medicine, the professions, in short, of all aspects of nineteenth-century life that the press encompassed.
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Niva Digital Archive
Norfolk Journal and Guide (1916-2003)
North China Herald 北华捷报 The North China Herald is the prime printed source for the history of the foreign presence in China from around 1850 to 1940s. No other newspaper existed over such an extended period, and covers it in such incredible depth and variety. The fully text-searchable North China Herald Online will be one of the primary resources on a period which continues to shape much of China’s world and worldview.
Papers Past: National Libary of New Zealand Historical newspapers of New Zealand, covering 1840-1915.
Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001)
Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2010)
Pravda Digital Archive Daily workers’ newspaper and the official organ of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992
Radical Newspapers Archive (Irish Newspapers)
Retronews RetroNews, the press site of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, gives access to more than 2000 press titles published between 1631 and 1952, adding to the resources present on Gallica. It works as a digital space for consulting newspapers archives, a research tool and a magazine.
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Nichols Newspaper Collection
South Asian Newspapers 1864-1922
Sovetskaia kul'tura digital archive Weekly newspaper. Source of information on arts and culture in the Soviet and Russian societies
Soviet Cinema Online - Periodicals and Newspapers 1918-1942 Soviet film magazines and newspapers from the 1920s and 1930s
Soviet Cinema Online. Archival Documents from RGALI, 1923-1935
Sunday Times Digital Archive, 1822-2021
Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2021
Times Digital Archive, 1785-2019 An online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of The Times, detailing every complete page of every issue from 1785-2012. Allows researchers an opportunity to search and view the newspaper in its original published context. Includes weekend supplements. The archive supports research across multiple disciplines and areas of interest: in business, humanities, political science, philosophy and numerous other subjects with coverage of all major international historical events.This database contains all Monday-Saturday issues of the Times in full text and full image, including news, features, editorials and commentary, advertising, pictures and illustrations. The Sunday Times is NOT included.
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive Full text searchable archive of the Times Literary Supplement from the first issue up to and including 2010. This is an updated, expanded and redesigned version of the Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive
Times of India This historical newspaper (1838-2012) provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Vestnik Evropy Archive
Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal in digital format from 1890-1991. Users can search by keyword or date or browse issues (Click on Search Methods and choose publication). Includes advertisements as well as articles.
Washington Post (1877-1997) The Washington Post (1877-1992) available as full page images including all original content. The database provides full-text searching which can be limited by date and article type.
Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals An index to the authorship of articles in Victorian periodicals, and a bibliography of articles written by each contributor, and using each pseudonym. Citations of evidence are provided to support attributions of authorship, along with brief biographical and vocational details. 45 important monthly and quarterly titles are included, covering the period from the beginning of the Westminster Review in 1824 to the end of the century. The exception to this is the Edinburgh Review, which is indexed from first issue, in 1802. Available as part of C19: The Nineteenth Century Index
Welsh Newspapers Online
World News in Indian Newspapers 1782-1908
World News Connection (archive up to 2013) Service bringing news from around the world, translated into English, typically within 24-72 hours from the time of the original publication or broadcast. The information is obtained from newspaper articles, television and radio broadcasts, online sources, conference proceedings, periodicals, and non-classified reports. This information is collected and translated by and for the U.S. Government.
World Newspaper Archive: African Newspapers Series 1, 1800-1922
World Newspaper Archive: African Newspapers Series 2, 1835-1925
World Newspaper Archive: Latin American Newspapers Series 1
World Newspaper Archive: South Asian Newspapers 1864-1922
Yomidasu Rekishikan Contents include Yomiuri shinbun 1874 to the present: image format from 1874 to 1989; full text 1986 to the present, along with the English edition: the Daily Yomiuri (Sept. 1989- to the present), both searchable by article, keyword, subject category, and issue. Charts and photographs are not included. Also includes biographical information on 26,000 people.

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