Newspapers
The Library has a comprehensive collection of contemporary and historical newspapers available.
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Contemporary newspapers
- Economist - Online subscription covers unlimited access to all articles at Economist.com.
- Financial Times (FT.com) - Online edition and access to the ePaper, an exact digital replica of different editions of the printed newspaper (e.g. UK, Asia, USA).
- London Review of Books - Founded in 1979, the London Review of Books is Europe's leading magazine of culture and ideas.
- Nexis – Provides news content from a range of UK national and regional newspapers, international and foreign language news sources.
- Times Higher Education - Unlimited access to THE content online.
- UK Press Online - Content includes: Daily Worker (1930-1966); Morning Star (1997-present).
Newspaper archives
Gale Primary Sources:
- British Library Newspapers, 1732-1950
- Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2021
- Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2020
- Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2021
- Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003
- Independent Historical Archive, 1986-2021
- International Herald Tribune Historical Archive, 1887-2013
- Listener Historical Archive, 1929-1991
- Mirror Historical Archive, 1903-2005
- Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
- Picture Post Historical Archive, 1938-1957
- Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992
- Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection
- Sunday Times Historical Archive, 1822-2021
- Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2021
- Times Digital Archive, 1785-2024
- Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, 1902-2019
Proquest Historical Newspapers:
- Chicago Tribune, 1849-2001
- Chinese Newspapers Collection, 1832-1953
- Guardian and Observer, 1791-2003
- Irish Times and the Weekly Irish Times, 1859-2024
- Korea Times, 1956-2016
- Los Angeles Times, 1881-2002
- New York Times with Index, 1851-2022
- Times of India, 1838-2013
- Washington Post, 1877-2009
Other:
- East African Newspapers - Archives of key newspapers from the region from the 1940s to the early 2000s.
- Independent Voices - A digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals.
- Irish Newspaper Archives - Searchable archives of Irish newspapers from the 1700's to the present.
- Izvestiia Digital Archive - Among the longest-running Russian newspapers, Izvestiia (Известия, News) was founded in March 1917 and during the Soviet period was the official organ of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
- Pravda Digital Archive - Pravda (Правда, Truth) was the official voice of Soviet communism and the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1918 and 1991.
- Rand Daily Mail Archive - The Rand Daily Mail was an English-language newspaper published in Johannesburg from 1902-1985
For further archives containing newspaper content, please visit History subject guide.
Foreign language newspapers
- Asahi News Database / 朝日新聞クロスサーチ
- Chinese Newspapers Collection, 1832-1953
- Chosun Ilbo / 조선일보, 1920 to present
- Delpher (Dutch)
- Gallica (French)
- Japan Times Digital Archive, 1897-2025
- Korea Times, 1956-2016
- Korean Newspaper Archives / 대한민국 신문 아카이브
- Naver News Library / NAVER 뉴스라이브러리
- People’s Daily archive 1946-2012 人民日报
- The Seoul Press, 1907-1937
See also: Japanese newspapers available in the Library
Microfilm newspapers
We hold a range of newspaper archives on microfilm in Western Bank Library. If you wish to consult a newspaper on microfilm, please email library@sheffield.ac.uk to make an appointment.