• Only a few individual newspaper sites allow you to see past articles free. One example is The Guardian, which has an 'Archive search' option on its drop-down menu at the top of the screen
• However, you can search and view past articles from national daily and Sunday newspapers at Newspapers online on this site
• Newspapers online gives you two services, Newsstand UK, which gives back issues of many national and regional titles; and the 'Times digital archive', which gives complete digital editions for 1785 - 1985
• The British Library is also making some historical newspapers available online. See the British Library Online Newspaper Archive and The Penny Illustrated Paper for newspapers from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
• You can keep up with useful web sites on past newspapers at the Newspapers section of WebLinks

Further information

• Library catalogue
• Contact us - for help to find information, from your local librarians
• Return to Newspapers