Finding newspapers

Newspapers can be a good source for the latest developments in a field and for current opinion on controversial topics.

Online newspapers

All of the major British newspapers are available online, although these may not be the exact equivalent of the printed version.

Latest editions

• The Guardian
• The Telegraph
• The Times Online

Older issues

• 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection
• 19th Century British Library Newspapers
• 19th Century UK Periodicals
• British Newspapers 1600-1900
• Financial Times
• Gale NewsVault
• The Guardian and The Observer digital archive - free searching, but you have to pay to view articles in full or print them out
• LexisLibrary - includes many UK national and local newspapers. Click on the News tab at the top of the welcome screen to search individual titles or multiple ones.
• New York Times Article Archive (1851 onwards, although not all articles are free)
• The Times
• UK Newsstand

Listings of online newspapers and news media

• ABYZ News Links
• The Big Project News Links
• British Library Newspapers Reading Room
• Google news archive - archive of digitised newspapers including foreign language and regional titles (nineteenth century onwards, although not all issues are available)

Printed newspapers

The Library subscribes to a number of newspapers in print - these are all listed on the Unicorn catalogue.

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