Contemporary & Historical Newspapers
The following list includes a number of newspaper resources that are available from the National Library of Wales. To access these remotely, please use your National Library of Wales reader’s ticket. To become a member, please complete the following online registration form (Opens in a new window).
For a full list of digital resources managed by The National Library of Wales, see the NLW Resources page.
CONTEMPORARY NEWSPAPERS
“Free access to current and recent editions of U.K and Ireland newspapers (generally 2007-) including 37 publications from Wales including The Western Mail, Carmarthen Journal and Western Telegraph.”
ARCHIVED NEWSPAPERS
19th Century British Library Newspapers
“Sourced from the extensive holdings of the British Library, British Library Newspapers delivers a wide range of irreplaceable local and regional voices to reflect the social, political, and cultural events of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. These newspapers, emerging during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a crucial channel of information in towns and major cities, provide researchers with a unique, first-hand perspective on history. With more than 240 newspaper titles, the series is comprised of approximately 6.4 million pages of historic content, from articles to advertisements. This collection illuminates diverse and distinct regional attitudes, cultures, and vernaculars, providing an alternative viewpoint to the London-centric national press over a period of more than 200 years.”
19th Century British NewspapersIllustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003
“The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003 includes every published issue, from the first in 1842 to the last in 2003. Entirely full-text searchable with high-quality digital imaging from flat unbound print sets, it combines information and the power of pictures to provide a unique perspective on virtually every aspect of modern life and those who helped shape it over more than 160 years.”
Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003Daily Mail Historical Archive 1896-2016
“Described by the New Yorker as “the newspaper that rules Britain”, the Daily Mail has been at the heart of British journalism since 1896, regularly changing the course of government policy and setting the national debate. Its website is among the most visited news sites in the world. The Daily Mail Historical Archive includes more than one hundred years of this major UK national newspaper, viewable in full digital facsimile form, with copious advertisements, news stories, and images that capture twentieth-century culture and society. The archive also contains the Atlantic Editions, printed on board the transatlantic cruise liners between 1923 and 1931.”
Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2016The Independent Digital Archive, 1986-2021
“The Independent is a major British daily national newspaper, launched in 1986 as an antidote to its often overtly political rivals. The publication’s evolution has been considerable, but it has also retained a distinctive position in British journalism. Featuring the work of journalists and columnists from across the political spectrum, the paper is generally regarded as centrist, presenting alternative perspectives on the news of the day.”
The Independent 1986-2021ProQuest: Guardian & Observer 1791-2003
“This historical newspaper provides easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.”
Guardian & Observer 1791-2003The Sunday Times Digital Archive, 1822-2021
“Boasting some 3.5 million articles and more than 800,000 digitized pages, The Sunday Times Historical Archive is a gateway to the greatest crimes, careers, and culture of the last two centuries. This archive is an important resource for the humanities and social sciences, especially in history, media studies, journalism, literature, cultural studies, politics, and theater. The collection is also a valuable resource for family history and genealogy.”
The Sunday Times 1822-2021The Telegraph Historical Archive 1855-2021
“The Telegraph Historical Archive 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 Telegraph 1855-2021The Times Digital Archive, 1785-2019
“The Times Digital Archive is an online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of The Times, one of the most highly regarded resources for eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century news coverage. This historical newspaper archive allows researchers an unparalleled opportunity to search and view the best-known and most cited newspaper in the world online in its original published context. Read by both world leaders and the general public, The Times has offered readers in-depth, award-winning, objective coverage of world events since its creation in 1785 and is the oldest daily newspaper in continuous publication. With over 12 million articles available, the archive supports research across multiple disciplines and areas of interest, including business, humanities, political science, and philosophy, along with coverage of all major international historical events.”
The Times 1785-2019Welsh Newspapers Online
Search and access over 1,100,000 pages from nearly 120 newspaper publications generally up to 1910. This also includes newspaper content that has been digitised by The Welsh Experience of World War One (Opens in a new window) project.
Welsh Newspapers OnlineCambrian Index Online
Contains hundreds of thousands of entries from newspapers relating to people and events occurring in an area roughly represented by the former county of West Glamorgan, mainly covering the period 1804-1881 with some later entries.
Cambrian Index OnlinePapurau Bro - Online community newspapers
An A-Z list of Welsh language community newspapers published in Wales, with links to their websites and an appendix of ones that have ceased publication.
Community Newspapers