Research Guides: *Western European History: Newspapers & News Sources

News Sources by Century

Recent News Sources

For current news sources from Europe, see the following:

The sources listed below
The Association of College & Research Libraries European Studies Section set of guides. These guides, provide links to current a variety of news sources. To access, click on the country/region of interest, then the "news" link. Coverage varies from country to country.
The News Sources Research Guide for Northwestern Libraries, especially the Current Newspapers tab.

Here is a list of specific sources, accessible with a Northwestern NetID/password:

Access World News
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Access World News from NewsBank provides full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues. Date coverage varies with individual newspaper.
Factiva
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Provides worldwide full text coverage of local and regional newspapers, trade publications, business newswires, press release wires, media transcripts, news photos, business-rich Web sites, investment analyst reports, market research reports, country and
Newspaper Source
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This database provides selected full text coverage for 245 newspapers, newswires and other sources. This collection includes cover-to-cover full text for and selected full text from hundreds of regional newspapers. International newspaper coverage includes cover-to-cover full text for The Times (London), The Toronto Star, The Australian, and more. Newswire coverage includes AP Online (Associated Press), Asia Pulse, Canadian Press Wire, World Stream Newswires and more. Coverage 1985-present
Nexis Uni (formerly Lexis Nexis Academic)
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Legal, news and business information service which contains several thousand full-text publications. These include regional, national and international newspapers, news wires, magazines, trade journals, law reviews, statutory, administrative and case law and business publications. Also included are medical journals and newsletters, profiles of the U.S. states and countries of the world, selected reference sources for facts and statistics, and a section for researching patents.Coverage: 1980 to present
PressReader
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Online access to over 200 newspapers from more than 55 countries, displayed in their original format and accessible by country, language, or title. Coverage: most recent 60 days
U.S. Newsstream
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Recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. Dates of coverage: 1980 to present, varies by individual title
World News Connection
A foreign news service of the U.S. government.
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A continuation of the FBIS: Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports (available in microfilm/fiche, beginning in 1946; inquire in Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department for exact holdings). WNC provides full-text, searchable from the mid 1990's to the present.

News Sources from National Libraries

ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online (Historische österreichische Zeitungen und Zeitschriften online) 
Virtual reading room of the Austrian National Library
Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France): Presse et revues
Growing collection of French newspapers and news sources
Hemeroteca Digital, for the Biblioteca Nacional de Espana
The collection consists of 143 titles (500,000 pages) from a variety of the Spanish press. Dates range from 1772 to 1933.
EuroDocs
Online sources for European history. Includes links to a variety of historic papers.

News Sources by Title (sources spanning centuries)

British Library Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Searchable full text of national and regional newspapers selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth-century Britain.
Caribbean Newspapers, Series 1, 1718-1876 This link opens in a new window
Caribbean Newspapers, Series 1, 1718-1876: From the American Antiquarian Society enables users to search more than 66 newspaper titles from 22 islands published in the 18th and 19th centuries. Created in partnership with the American Antiquarian Society, Caribbean Newspapers is the largest online collection of newspapers published in this region.
17th - 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Searchable full-text access to the British Library's collection of the newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817).

17th and 18th Century Nichols Newspapers Collection
This collection features the newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets and broadsheets that form the Nichols newspaper collection held at the Bodleian library in Oxford, UK. All 296 volumes of bound material, covering the period 1672-1737 are presented in digitized format here.
British Periodicals (ProQuest)
British Periodicals (Collection I) provides access to the searchable full text of British periodicals from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century. It includes facsimile page images. Subject areas covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences. (Collection II) includes English Literary Periodicals,
Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2004
Economist Historical Archive
The Economist Historical Archive, which begins in 1843, is the fully searchable edition of The Economist, the weekly paper which is essential reading for anyone engaged in politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide. In 8,000 issues and more than 600,0000 pages, EHA offers full-colour images, multiple search indexes, topic and area supplements and surveys, together with a gallery of front covers and a selection of exportable financial tables. Altogether this is a unrivalled multidisciplinary primary source for researching and teaching the 19th and 20th centuries.
Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2010
Financial Times Historical Archive 1888-2010 The Financial Times Historical Archive is the complete searchable facsimile run of the world’s most authoritative daily business newspaper.
Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003)
The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Illustrated London News historical archive, 1842-2003
Provides online access to the entire run of the ILN from its first publication on 14 May 1842 to its last in 2003. Each page has been digitally reproduced in full colour and every article and caption is full-text searchable with hit-term highlighting and links to corresponding illustrations.
Irish Times and the Weekly Irish Times
Coverage dates: 1859-2016
The Listener historical archive, 1929-1991
The Listener was a weekly publication, established by the BBC in 1929 as the medium for reproducing radio - and later, television - programmes in print. It is our only record and means of accessing the content of many early broadcasts.
The Sunday Times Digital Archive
Fourth link down on the page (click on "Publishers ejournals local"). Full text access to the Sunday Times (London), 1822-2006
The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2000
Launched in 1855, The Telegraph (London) was the first 1d morning paper (The Times was 7d). By 1876, The Telegraph was the largest-selling newspaper in the world, with a circulation of 300,000. The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2000 has over 1 million pages of content and includes the Sunday edition from its inception in 1961. The archive offers a fundamental insight into domestic and international affairs and culture over a timespan of almost 150 years.
The Times Digital Archive
Access via the third link down on the page. Full text access to the Times of London, 1785-2013
Associated Press Collections Online
News features & internal communications -- U.S. City bureaus collection -- Washington, D.C. Bureau collection -- The Washington D.C. Bureau collection, part II (1915-1930) -- European bureaus collection -- The Middle East bureaus collection.
TLS - The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
Full text archive of TLS from 1902 to 2014

19th Century UK Periodicals This link opens in a new window
19th Century UK Periodicals provides access to the enormous range of periodical literature published in Great Britain 1800-1900 of interest to historians and students of nineteenth-century literature and culture, empire, feminism, the history of the book, the creative and performing arts, sport and leisure, science and medicine, and the professions.
World Newspaper Archive This link opens in a new window
This is a searchable collection of 19th and 20th century historical newspapers from Latin America, Africa, and South Asia. This collection can be cross searched with the America's Historical Newspaper collection.

Center for Research Libraries (CRL) News Sources

CRL collects newspapers from all over the world. They also holds collections of scripts, transcripts, and translations of news reports, produced or compiled by the British Broadcasting Corporation, Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, and the Voice of America.

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News Sources by Century

Recent News Sources

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News Sources by Title (sources spanning centuries)

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