Canadian
Start with these full text databases to find historical newspaper articles in Canadian newspapers. Other sources can be found using the indexes under the Indexes and Guides tab.
- British ColonistWebsite contains all the issues of the British Colonist (also called the Daily British Colonist, the Daily Colonist, and other variants) from its first issue in 1858 to 1970. The British Colonist was the leading paper in the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, and was the paper for the province of British Columbia until the emergence of Vancouver and competitors in the 1890s.
- British Columbia Historical NewspapersB.C. community newspapers published from 1865 to 1989; collection varies by date and newspaper.
- Center for Research Libraries (CRL) This link opens in a new windowConsortium of academic and independent research libraries. Click the newspapers tab on the top bar to search or browse.
- Proquest Historical Newspapers: The Globe & MailOnline full-page newspaper archive from June 1844 to 2012.
- Google Newspaper ArchivesContents and dates vary. Includes the Vancouver Sun, Montreal Gazette, Calgary Herald, Ottawa Citizen, Saskatoon Star-Phoenix.
- SFU Digitized NewspapersHistorical Canadian newspapers, including many non-English papers and papers serving immigrant communities.
International
Start with these full text databases to find historical newspaper articles in international newspapers.
The focus of this guide is English-language newspapers. For historical newspapers in Asian languages, consult with the librarians at the Asian Library.
- 17th & 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers This link opens in a new windowDigital archive of about 1,270 newspapers and news pamphlets from the United Kingdom.
- Eighteenth Century Journals: Portal to Newspapers and Periodicals c1685-1815 This link opens in a new windowBritish periodicals of the eighteenth century.
- 19th Century U.S. Newspapers This link opens in a new windowAccess to primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.
- 19th Century British Newspapers This link opens in a new windowNational, regional and local British newspapers from the holdings of the British Library. Includes the full text of 71 newspapers, totalling over 3 million pages.
- African Newspapers This link opens in a new windowOn completion, more than 40 nineteenth- and twentieth-century African newspapers will be digitized featuring titles from Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
- Al-Ahram Digital ArchiveFounded in 1875, Al-Ahram (األهرام, "The Pyramids") is one of the longest-running newspapers in the Middle East. It has long been regarded as Egypt’s most authoritative and influential newspaper, and one of the most important newspapers in the Arab world, with a circulation of over 1 million.
- Center for Research Libraries (CRL) This link opens in a new windowConsortium of academic and independent research libraries. Click the newspapers tab on the top bar to search or browse.
- Financial Times Historical Archive This link opens in a new windowThe complete run of the London edition of the paper, from its first issue in 1888 to 2010.
- Gale NewsVault This link opens in a new windowA range of historical newspaper and periodical collections.
- Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003 This link opens in a new windowThe world's first fully-illustrated weekly newspaper presented in a fully-searchable digital format.
- Latin American Newspapers This link opens in a new windowIncludes approximately 35 fully searchable newspapers printed throughout this region in the 19th and 20th centuries.
- New York Times Historical Newspaper This link opens in a new windowFull text of the NYT from 1851 to the current [with three year embargo.] View articles and full page of every issue in this time period.
- Picture Post Historical Archive This link opens in a new windowFull text archive of the Picture Post, the iconic newspaper published in Britain between 1938-1957 that defined the style of photojournalism in the 20th century.
- South China Morning Post This link opens in a new windowThe South China Morning Post - an English language newspaper published in Hong Kong - is renowned for its authoritative and influential reporting on Hong Kong, China and all of Asia. It is highly regarded by researchers because of the unique history of Hong Kong as well as the newspaper’s editorial perspective on Imperial Japan and Communist China. With searchable, full text coverage from South China Morning Post’s origin in 1903 up to and including 1997, users will be able to search the entirety of the newspaper including advertisements, editorials, cartoons, and photographs that illuminate history as much as the news articles.
- Times Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
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An online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of The Times (London). - Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive This link opens in a new windowContains images of every page of every copy of the TLS published from 1902-2007.
- Times of India (1838 - 2008) This link opens in a new windowFull text access to the English language daily newspaper founded in 1838 to serve British residents of West India.
Historical Newspapers - by Title
British Columbia
The majority of BC historical newspapers are available in microformat and are listed in the library catalogue. Ask for help at the Reference Desk at Koerner Library. Consult the Union Catalogue of British Columbia Newspapers to find titles of newspapers published in BC, then search the catalogue to determine if we have the title in our collection.
- Daily Colonist - online | microformat
- New Westminster Columbian - microformat
- Province - online
- Vancouver Sun - print | online | microformat
- Victoria Times - microformat
Canada
- Globe and Mail - online | microformat
- Financial Post - online | microformat
- Toronto Star- online
- Presse (Montreal)- online
US/International
- Christian Science Monitor - online | microformat
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - online | microformat
- Financial Times - online | microformat
- Guardian Weekly - online | microformat
- Izvestiia - online | microformat
- Japan Times - online | microformat
- Le Monde - online | microformat
- Moscow News - online | microformat
- New York Times - online | microformat
- North China Herald - online
- Observer (London) - microformat
- Pravda - online | microformat
- South China Morning Post - online
- Sunday Times (London) - online | microformat
- Times (London) - online | microformat
- Times of India - online
- Wall Street Journal - online | microformat
- Washington Post - online | microformat