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 Newspapers

 

Welcome to British Library Newspapers, the national archive collections in the United Kingdom of British and overseas newspapers.

Our collections, which include popular magazines and periodicals, are made available in hard copy, in microform, and electronic formats in the Newspaper Reading Room in Colindale, north west London.

New! The 19th Century British Library Newspapers Website, managed by Gale, offers 1,000,000 pages of digital content.

  • You can access it now from within the British Library building.
  • It is also available to Further and Higher Education UK institutions. more

New! The Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (ncse) is a free, online scholarly edition of six 19th century periodicals and newspapers. It is a collaboration between Birbeck College, King's College London (Centre for Computing in the Humanities and the Department of English), the British Library, and Olive Software.

Newspapers Digitisation Project: British Newspapers 1800-1900
Transfer of selected periodicals to the British Library (St Pancras) Humanities Collections

Reading Rooms and Information Services| Newspapers Catalogue subset |
The British Library Online Newspaper Archive | Collections | Copy Services | Copyright at British Library Newspapers | Electronic Resources | Microfilm Services| | Newspaper, Journalism, and Media Internet Resources | Open Days, Visits, and Talks | Newsletters | Newspaper Library History | NEWSPLAN | Disposal of Overseas Newspapers |
Related Material Elsewhere in The British Library
Moving Here


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Newspapers Catalogue subset
(All newspapers and periodicals held at British Library Newspapers, Colindale, are listed in the Newspapers subset of the British Library's Integrated Catalogue)

The British Library Online Newspaper Archive (Pilot Version Only)
(Access via Olive Software to selected, searchable facsimile issues of London’s Daily News,
The News of the World and The Weekly Dispatch, and The Manchester Guardian)

Collections:

Newspapers in the British Library
Collection Development Policy
British and Irish Newspapers
Overseas Newspapers
Periodicals and Comics
Visual Arts Collections
Microform Series
Chatham House Press Cuttings

Special and named newspaper, journal, and magazine collections, and other collections strengths in The British Library, also include:

British and Irish Cinema and Film Periodicals
British Comics Collection
British Football Programmes, Club Magazines, and Football Periodicals
British Military History Collections, 1801-1945
The Burney Collection of Newspapers
Current Foreign (Non-British Isles) Newspapers
The Dutch Underground Press, 1940-1945
Early American Newspapers
Early English Newspapers
Early Indian Newspapers
The Francis Place Collection (British Politics and Economics)
General Strike Newspapers of 1926
German-Language Newspapers and Journals Published in London Since 1810
Modern Music Periodicals: Pop and Jazz
Northern Ireland Political Literature: Periodicals, 1966-1989
The Thomason Tracts (English Newsbooks, 1640-1661)
Tuskegee Institute News Clippings File (African-Americans, 1899-1966)
Victorian Illustrated Newspapers and Journals

Copy Services

Copyright at British Library Newspapers

Microfilm Services

Publications

Electronic Resources

Abstracts and Indexes to Newspapers and Journals
Full-Text, Word-Searchable Newspapers and Journals
Chronological and Subject Guides Based on News and Newspapers
Other Databases

Newspaper, Journalism, and Media Internet Resources:

London National Newspapers
Scottish Newspapers
Irish Newspapers
English and Welsh Newspapers
Channel Islands and Isle of Man Newspapers
Newspapers Around the World
Other News-Related Publications
News Information Resources / Projects for Newspapers, Journalism, & the Media
Newspaper History
Other Newspaper Libraries and Collections
Departments of Journalism and Media Studies in Higher Education Institutions

Open Days, Visits, and Talks:

Open Days
Special Group Visits
Visiting Speakers

Last edition of Newsletter: Newspaper Library News - No. 30 (Summer 2001)

Archive of previous issues of the Newsletter:

Newspaper Library News - No. 29 (Winter 2000/2001)
Newspaper Library News - No. 28 (Summer 2000)
Newspaper Library News - No. 27 (Winter 1999/2000)
Newspaper Library News - No. 26 (Summer 1999)
Newspaper Library News - No. 25 (Winter 1998/1999)

Newspaper Library History:

Historical Overview of British Library Newspapers service
Chronology of Key Dates in the History of the British Library Newspapers service
Select Bibliography on the History of the Newspapers service
Concise History of the British Newspaper Since 1620

NEWSPLAN:

The NEWSPLAN Programme: Co-operation, Scope, and Developments
Online Access to Catalogues of Newspaper Collections based on NEWSPLAN
NEWSPLAN Reports
Other Related Publications
Select Bibliography of Information about NEWSPLAN

Disposal of Overseas Newspapers

Related Material Elsewhere in The British Library

Moving Here
Moving Here is the biggest database of digitised material from 30 local and national archives, museums and libraries which records migration experiences of the last 200 years. The database includes 8,000 newspaper images from the British Library's collection.


Further Information:

British Library
Newspapers
Colindale Avenue
London
NW9 5HE
United Kingdom
General Enquiries:

Tel: +44 (0)20 7412 7353
Fax: +44 (0)20 7412 7379
Email: newspaper@bl.uk

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