Over 60 searchable African newspapers published in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Featuring English and foreign-language titles from Angola, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The largest primary resource collection of 18th- and 19th-century Caribbean newspapers. Covers colonial history, the Atlantic slave trade, international commerce, New World slavery, and U.S. relations with the region.
A collection of 12 historical English-language Chinese newspapers published between 1832 and 1953, providing a chronicle of China’s turbulent transition from Imperial rule to the founding of the Republic.
Published weekly in Shanghai from 1850 to the 1940s, this English-language newspaper is the key source on the foreign presence in China during the treaty port era. It served as the official journal for British consular notices and Shanghai Municipal Council announcements, and regularly featured translations of Chinese official news, offering unique insight into Sino-Western relations.
An archival collection providing full-text access to the South China Morning Post from 1903 to 2001. This English-language newspaper, published in Hong Kong, offers coverage of regional and international events, with particular insight into Hong Kong, China, Imperial Japan, and Communist Asia. Includes articles, advertisements, editorials, photographs, and cartoons.
Full-text archive of The Times of India, the world’s largest circulating English-language daily. Covers 1838 to 2012, featuring news, editorials, and commentary on political, economic, and cultural developments in India and abroad, from the colonial era to the 21st century.
A full archive of the national Indian English-language daily newspaper, containing all issues from 1924 to 2010. Includes news articles, photos, advertisements, classified ads, obituaries, cartoons, and more.
Digital archive of The Jerusalem Post, an English-language daily founded in 1932 as The Palestine Post. Covers news from 1932 to 2008, including the Arab–Jewish conflict, the Holocaust, the founding of Israel, and regional wars. Offers insight into Israeli history and Middle Eastern affairs.
An archive of the UK newspaper, The Daily Mail. Includes news stories, advertisements and images spanning over 100 years.
Access to the Economist from the first issue in 1843 to 2015.
A complete online, fully searchable facsimile, the Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2016* delivers the complete run of the London edition of this internationally known daily paper, from its first issue.
A searchable full-text digital archive of these two British periodicals, containing articles from their first issues in 1821 for the Guardian and 1791 for the Observer.
This archive includes every published issue of the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper, from 1842 to 2003. Full-text searchable with high-quality digital imaging from flat unbound print sets, it includes articles, illustrations, photographs, and advertisements. Subjects covered include politics, society, culture, science, and international affairs, with a particular focus on British and imperial history.
A searchable digital archive of The Independent, a UK national newspaper known for its centrist stance and diverse commentary. Covers full-text articles from 1986 to 2016, including news, opinion pieces, and coverage of major political, social, and environmental issues.
A fully searchable archive of The Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, offering over 1 million pages of news, commentary, and features. Covers UK and international affairs, politics, culture, and society from the mid-19th to early 21st century.
A searchable, full-text facsimile archive of The Times (London), covering over 200 years from 1785 to 2024. Offers in-depth reporting on global events, politics, business, and culture, with articles viewable in their original published format.
A leading source of news, analysis, and insight on global higher education, including university rankings, policy, and academic careers. For access, create a personal account using your University of Sussex email.
In order to gain access, you'll need to register for a personal THE account, which you can then use to log in to the THE website and app. You must register using your full University of Sussex email address (i.e. use @sussex.ac.uk) so that your personal THE account is associated with the University's institutional subscription.
A searchable digital archive of the TLS from 1902–2014, offering facsimile pages and revealing the identities of previously anonymous contributors. Covers literature, criticism, history, politics, science, and the arts, with contributions from leading global writers and thinkers.
A comprehensive resource of regional and local newspapers in Britain between the mid 18th and 20th centuries. Supports research in History, Literature, Victorian Studies, Genealogy, Fine Arts, Finance/Economics, Political Science, and more. Access to parts 1-4, covering titles from 1732 to 1950.
Digitised archive of over 240 British newspaper titles published between 1732 and 1950. Covers national, regional, and local publications from across the UK, including reformist journals, early illustrated papers, and specialist titles.
Digitised archive of nearly 500 British periodicals from the 17th century to the early 21st century. Covers literature, history, politics, art, science, and social commentary, with full-text searchable facsimile images.
Approx. 700 volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets from the seventeenth and eighteenth century, collected by the Reverend Charles Burney. Mostly published in London, but includes English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers and a few from the American colonies, Europe and India.
Contains full runs of 48 influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of the 19th century British society.
Full-text archive of The Chicago Defender from 1909 to 1975, a key African American newspaper. Includes news articles, editorials, and cultural commentary, offering insight into 20th-century U.S. history, civil rights, and urban African American life.
Digitised archive of the Los Angeles Times, including news articles, photographs, advertisements, obituaries, and cartoons. Covers local, regional, and national events from the late 19th to early 21st century.
Fully searchable archive of The New York Times, with full text, article-level images, and subject indexing. Covers local, national, and international news, politics, and society from 1851 to 2021.
A collection of full-text, fully searchable articles and images from the Wall Street Journal. It includes primary sources and covers the period from 1889–2010. Subjects include: American politics, American history
Digital archive of the American newspaper, The Washington Post, that includes news articles, photos, advertisements, obituaries, cartoons, and more. Subjects include: American politics, American history
Digitised archive of the New York Amsterdam News, a major African American newspaper founded in 1909. Covers 1922 to 2010, with reporting on local and national news, politics, culture, and civil rights, particularly reflecting the experiences of Black communities in New York City.
Provides full-text access to the Pittsburgh Courier, an influential African American newspaper, from 1911 to 2010. Includes news articles, editorials, and cultural reporting with a focus on African American communities and issues across the United States.
Search more than 270 African American newspapers from over 35 states, published during the 19th and 20th centuries. Includes rarer titles from the black presses of smaller US cities and issues of the earliest black newspapers.
American periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals. Combines collections from American Periodicals Series Online (APS Online) and American Periodicals from the Center for Research (APCRL).
A fully digitized collection of newspapers published in the United States between 1798 and 1963. Contains a separate searchable directory of American newspapers dating back to 1690.
Designed to provide a window into this uniquely American story. Series 15 contains 160 immigrant papers, many of which are considered the most important 19th-century publications of this genre. Complementing these and providing valuable context are traditional, general-interest newspapers published contemporaneously in those same cities or regions.
Searchable collection of 730 historical American newspapers published between 1690 and 1876, including national, regional and local publications.
500,000 issues from more than 500 historical newspapers. Includes weeklies, dailies and historical significant newspapers. Key titles include the New York Herald, New York Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, Baltimore Sun, South Carolina City Gazette, Dallas Morning News, Kansas City Star, San Jose Mercury News.
The largest online collection of 19th-century U.S. newspapers from the American West. Approx. 2,500 titles published in all 24 states west of the Mississippi River, plus a number of titles published east of the Mississippi for valuable political and economic context.
Archive of The Nation magazine from 1865 to the present, offering primary source material on U.S. and global politics, culture, and society. Includes articles, editorials, letters, reviews, poems, and puzzles.
A searchable archive of U.S. communist newspapers offering first-hand accounts of political, social, and cultural events from 1917 to 2013.
Provides full-text access to major newspaers from across the US, including The Times-Picayune (New Orleans), The Plain Dealer (Cleveland), and The Oregonian (Portland) from 1923 to 1991. Drawn from U.S. historical collections, the archive includes news articles, editorials, advertisements, and other content reflecting regional perspectives on 20th-century American life.
ProQuest Leftist Newspapers and periodicals is a collection of English-language publications spanning beyond the 20th century (1845-2015) covering Communist, Socialist and Marxist thought, theory and practice. Issues covered include workers’ rights, organized labor, labor strikes, Nazi atrocities, McCarthyism’s rise after WWII, Civil Rights, and modern-day class struggles which give rise to renewed interest in alternative social organizations.
A searchable archive of U.S. communist newspapers offering first-hand accounts of political, social, and cultural events from 1917 to 2013.