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Newspapers at Bedford Central Library

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Bedford Central Library has the largest collection of newspapers. This page lists the library's

- daily and weekly newspapers
- foreign language newspapers and magazines
- current local newspapers

The library also holds some historic special issues, detailed in the Excel file Historic issues of newspapers and magazines at Bedford Central Library (85 KB)

Daily and weekly newspapers

TITLE	BACKFILE
Corriere Della Sera	1 Month
Daily Jang	1 Month
Daily Telegraph	3 months
Financial Times	Microfilm: 1975 - 2007 Paper: 3 months
Guardian	Microfilm: 1953 -1996 Paper: 3 Months
Illustrated London News	Microfilm: 1842 - 1993
Independent on Sunday	3 months
Observer	3 months
Sunday Telegraph	3 months
Sunday Times	3 months
Times	Microfilm: 1965 - 2007 Paper: 1 Year

Foreign language newspapers and magazines

TITLE	LANGUAGE	BACKFILE
Akhbar-E-Jehan	Urdu	Current
Corriere Della Sera	Italian	1 Month
Daily Jang	Urdu	1 Month
Epoch Times	Chinese	1 Month
Janomot	Bengali	3 Months
Oggi	Italian	3 Months
Paris Match	French	1 Month

Current local newspapers

The table below lists local newspapers still published today
For a complete list of local newspapers both current and ceased, see Local newspapers, magazines and journals at Bedford Central Library

TITLE	BACKFILE
Bedfordshire Times and Citizen	Microfilm: Permanent from 18th Oct 1845 Bound: Permanent from 1869 (incomplete) Paper: 1 Year (Until 1995 'Bedfordshire Times' and 'Bedford & Kempston Citizen' were separate titles )
Bedfordshire On Sunday	Microfilm: Permanent from Mar 1977 Bound: Permanent from Mar 1977 Paper: 1 Year
Biggleswade Chronicle	Microfilm: Oct 1891 - Dec 2007 Bound: 1974 -1986
Dunstable Gazette	Microfilm: Jan 1918 (incomplete) - Dec 2007 Bound: Apr 1969 - Dec 1985
Leighton Buzzard Observer	Microfilm: 1919 - Dec 2007
Luton News	Microfilm: 1980 - 1995 (selected pages only) Paper: 3 Months

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Page last updated: 7th February 2011