Historical News Sources
This guide contains information and resources for finding historical news primary sources
International Newspaper Collections
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The Times Digital Archive, 1785-2019The Times Digital Archive is an online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of The Times, one of the most highly regarded resources for eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century news coverage.
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Daily Mail Digital ArchiveThe Daily Mail Historical Archive includes more than one hundred years of this major UK national newspaper, viewable in full digital facsimile form, with copious advertisements, news stories, and images that capture twentieth-century culture and society. Click an article to read it, then click on the "view options" menu to the left of the article. Click "OCR" to review the text-only article.
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Colonial Africa Newspapers from the British LibraryThis collection, which contains runs of colonial newspapers from Africa that span the years 1821–1922, offers a superb introduction to the geographical spread and types of newspapers available to students of European colonialism and indigenous resistance in Africa. he twenty-four titles found here represent newspapers published in nearly every main region of the colonized continent south of the Sahara: British West Africa, South Africa, Portuguese and British East Africa, and the Congo under King Leopold and Belgium.
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Gale Primary SourcesIncludes the following newspaper collections:
Associated Press Collections Online, British Library Newspapers, Daily Mail Historical Archive, Financial Times Historical Archive, Mirror Historical Archive, 1903-2000, Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers, Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals, Picture Post Historical Archive, 1938-1957, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney and Nichols Newspapers Collections, The Economist Historical Archive, The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003, and The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive -
Newspapers.com Library Edition - World Collection.
Newspapers.com Library Edition - World Collection contains historical newspapers from the 1700s - 2000s. Included are thousands of well-known regional, state, and small local newspapers in the United States and other countries. There are 150 Wisconsin-specific titles including the Janesville Daily Gazette, the Racine Daily Herald, the Eau Claire Leader, and many more.
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Shinbun Digital Newspaper CollectionsThe Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection is currently the world’s largest open-access, full-image online archive of newspapers from Nikkei communities worldwide.