Database:
British Library Newspapers
Gale

About this Database

Sourced from the extensive holdings of the British Library, British Library Newspapers delivers a wide range of irreplaceable local and regional voices to reflect the social, political, and cultural events of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. These newspapers, more than 240 titles, emerging during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a crucial channel of information in towns and major cities, provide researchers with a unique, first-hand perspective on history. Subscription includes: Parts I-V: 1800-1950 ; Part VI: Ireland, 1783-1950 ; and, Part VII: Southeast Asia, 1806-1977.