Subject guides: History: Newspapers and Magazines

Global Historical Newspapers

Proquest Historical Newspapers combined search
Contains complete full text and full image articles from major international newspapers:
USA:
Chicago Tribune (April 23 1849 - Dec 31 1986)
The New York Times (Sept 18 1851 - Dec 31 2006)
The Wall Street Journal (July 8 1889 - Dec 30 1992)
The Washington Post (1877-1999)
UK:
The Guardian and The Observer (1791-2003)
Rest of the world:
South China Morning Post (1903-1996)
Chinese Newspapers Historical Collection (1832- 1953) (24 chinese newspapers, published in English or Chinese / English / Russian.)
The Times of India (1838-2009)

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Google News Archive
Free access to a range of scanned archives of newspapers. Some of the news archives date back to 1700s.

Factiva.com (mid-1980s - present)
Plain text of thousands of newspapers from 1971 onwards. The Fairfax publications archive includes The Sydney Morning Herald 1986+, Australian Financial Review 1987+, BRW 1989+, and the News Limited archive includes The Australian 1996+
Proquest Newsstream International databases
Search a wide range of international and Australian newspapers in ANZ Newsstream, Canadian Newsstream, International Newsstream, and U.S. Newsstream.
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European Historical Newspapers

17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers includes more than 1,000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the period.
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The 17th and 18th Century Nichols Newspapers Collection
Features the newspapers and periodicals, as well as pamphlets and broadsheets, that form the Nichols newspaper collection held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, UK.
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British Library Newspapers
British Library Newspapers contains comprehensive range of regional and local newspapers in Britain between the mid eighteenth and mid twentieth centuries.
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British Periodicals via Proquest (1681 - 1997)
Hundreds of periodicals covering all subjects. Good for study of literature, theatre, politics, religion among other subjects. Access to Collections 1-3, full text for nearly 500 British periodicals published from the 17th century through to the early 21st.
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The Daily Mail Historical Archive 1896-2004
The Daily Mail Historical Archive 1896-2004 provides more than 100 years of the Daily Mail newspaper online.
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Economist Historical Archive via Gale 1843 - Four years before current year
The weekly magazine which is essential reading for anyone interested in politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide.
Also cross-searchable with other historical databases via Gale Primary Sources
Eighteenth Century Journals Portal I-V via Adam Matthew
Consists of newspapers and periodicals published between 1680 - 1820, drawn from major Library collections.
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The Guardian and The Observer (1791-2003) via Proquest Historical Newspapers
The U.K newspapers The Guardian and The Observer have always had progressive opinions, and provided serious coverage of the issues of the day.
Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003
Fully searchable facsimile of the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper. It covered wars, royal events, scientific invention, and exploration. In 1855 it launched the world's first colour supplement.

Also cross-searchable with other archives via Gale primary sources - analyze content using frequency and term-relationship tools.

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The Independent Digital Archive, 1986-2012
A digital collection that covers the full run of the newspaper from its very first issue until the end of 2012.
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The Listener Historical Archive 1929-1991
BBC periodical published from 1929 1991. The online archive consists of the complete 62 years run of the paper, digitised from originals in full colour.
NewsVault
Cross-searches the Financial Times Historical Archive (1888 - 2007) and The Times Digital Archive (1785 - 1985) . Every item ever printed in the paper, can be searched and browsed article by article and page by page.

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Punch Historical Archive 1841–1992
The celebrated magazine of wit and satire, a resource for the study of British history, society, and culture in the 19th and 20th century.
Times: Palmer Fulltext 1800-1870 & Palmers Index to The Times 1790 - 1905
Fulltext searchable archive the The Times. Cross-searchable with the Official Index to The Times, 1906-1980, and the Historical Index to The New York Times 1863-1905, and 1913 - September 1922.
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Times Digital Archive via Gale Infotrac 1785 – Six years before current year
The Times of London. Also cross-search the Financial Times Historical Archive and The Times Digital Archive with NewsVault

Also cross-searchable with other archives via Gale primary sources - analyze content using frequency and term-relationship tools.
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International Newspapers

China from Empire to Republic
The Missionary, Sinology, and Literary Periodicals collection contains 17 English-language periodicals published in or about China during a period of over 130 years, extending from 1817 until the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949.
Japan Times Digital Archive
Fully-searchable English-language newspaper published in Japan since 1897. A pioneer of overseas-focused journalism, it focused on how to report Japanese issues to a non-Japanese audience. Intensive coverage of Japan and East Asia.

Access from 1897 - previous year (loaded 2nd quarter following year)
Japanese Periodicals Index (Zasshi kiji sakuin)
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This free online resource is the most comprehensive index for Japanese periodicals published in Japan. Some indexes go back to 1948.

Note: Search must be conducted in Japanese scripts.

Australian

Australian Newspapers
Freely available resource that is part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program in TROVE
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Factiva.com (mid-1980s - present)
Newspapers, company information, pictures and media transcripts from Australian and overseas media sources.For Australian news sources, the Fairfax publications archive includes The Sydney Morning Herald 1986+, Australian Financial Review 1987+, BRW 1989+, and the News Limited archive includes The Australian 1996+.

Australian Financial Review via Factiva has a 72-hour embargo on daily articles.

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Australia & New Zealand Newsstream via Proquest
ANZ Newsstream includes newspapers published by Fairfax Australia, News Ltd, Fairfax New Zealand, AAP newswires and ABC transcripts. Key titles: The Age (1/9/1996 - ), The Australian (2001- ), Canberra Times (21/5/2007 -), Courier Mail (Feb 2001 -), Sun Herald (1/9/1996 - ), Sunday Age (1/9/1996 - ), The Sydney Morning Herald (1/8/1996). Content list.
Sydney Morning Herald Archive (1955-1995)
Freely available index to the newspaper.

Click on the "Browse and search the 1955-1995 archive for FREE" link. Payment is required for access to the full text, so use the microfilm copy of the SMH (1842-present) in Fisher or one of our News Services databases for full text.
Honi Soit
Honi Soit Archive 1929 - 1990 | Honi Soit current issues, 2012 - present)
The archives and current issues of Honi Soit, the University of Sydney’s student newspaper, comprise a rich and colourful source on the cultural, social, and University issues of the day.

American Historical Newspapers

America’s Historical Newspapers, (Early American Newspapers 1690-1876)
Search, or browse hundreds of hundreds of historical newspapers via a timeline-based interface. Includes the complete contents of every newspaper. A companion to Early American Imprints

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.

Associated Press Collections Online Archive
The Associated Press Collections Online Archive contains the history of world major events. Includes news coverage, imagery and behind-the-scenes context.
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Harper's Bazaar Archive (1867 - present)
The entire run of the U.S edition of Harper's Bazaar magazine - a fashion, arts, and culture authority Scanned in full color.
The Liberty Magazine Historical Archive, 1924-1950
Contains American illustrated weekly magazines of the 1920s-1950s.
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New popular magazines
Includes The New Yorker, Vogue USA, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, and archival access to The Economist, Architectural Digest, Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, among others.
ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers
ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers offers primary sources material essential to the study of American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and arts.

Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003)
The Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988)
Chicago Defender (1910-1975)
Cleveland Call and Post (1934-1991)
Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005)
New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993)
The Norfolk Journal and Guide (1921-2003)
The Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001)
Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)
Women's Magazine Archive via Proquest (1883 - 2005)
Leading U.S and Canadian women’s interest consumer magazines Better Homes and Gardens, Chatelaine, Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, and Parents. Among the research fields served by this material are gender studies, social history, economics/marketing, media, fashion, politics, and popular culture.

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