Newspaper Archives

Newspapers can open up a whole new world for genealogists and family historians. You can find records of criminal ancestors and their crimes, obituaries, marriage notices and much more. Listed below are links to British newspaper archives that are available online.

  • British Newspapers 1710-1953
    A huge collection of historic newspapers online in partnership with the British Library.
  • Welsh Newspapers Online
    A free online resource from the National Library of Wales where you can discover millions of articles from the Library’s rich collection of historical newspapers.
  • The Scotsman Digital Archive
    The Scotsman Digital Archive allows you to search through decades of historic—high definition—digital scans from The Scotsman’s history.
  • Google News Archive
    This archive has newspapers from all over the world, including many British titles.
  • Irish Newspaper Archive
    A very expensive subscription needed to access the archive.
  • Irish Times Digital Archive
    The Irish Times Digital Archive is a searchable database of all the articles from 1859 onwards. It’s free to search but a subscription is needed to view the articles.
  • Historic American Newspapers
    Search America’s historic newspapers pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
  • Newspaper Archive
    Explore historical newspapers from the U.S., the UK and Canada with the world’s largest online newspaper archive.
  • The Spectator Archive
    The Spectator Archive contains every page of the magazine from 1828 to 2008. The archive can be searched by content, keyword, date or location. Searching and viewing content is free.
  • Historic Newspapers
    Search and order genuine Historic Newspapers by date and title going back over 100 years at the world’s largest private archive. All carefully preserved to ensure they are in perfect condition and all guaranteed as 100% authentic originals only.They have the largest newspaper archive in the UK, with over 7m newspapers dating back to the late 18th century. They also have scanned newspapers from most dates over the last 100+ years.

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