Digitized Historic Newspapers freely available online:

Newspapers Published in Multiple Locations/Large Databases:

• UPenn Online Books Project, a directory of freely available newspapers and magazines (I’ve pulled out and linked many of the relevant titles from this list in the regional categories below) https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/serials.html

• Google Newspaper Archive. This collection features a lot of papers from Australia, Canada, and the US, and uses the Google search engine for in-text searching. I’ve linked some relevant individual papers in the regional categories below –https://news.google.com/newspapers

• Victorian Web’s Directory of Open-Access (free online) Victorian Periodicals (British newspapers, magazines, and journals). This master list links to other places online where British periodicals are available freely online, without a paywall. https://www.victorianresearch.org/openaccessperiodicals.html

• Jewish Newspaper Archive, via the National Library of Israel. This is a database containing hundreds of Jewish newspapers, including some published in Britain and British colonies. https://www.nli.org.il/en/discover/newspapers/jpress

• 19th Century Serials, available online at HathiTrust (you can filter by date, place, etc or search the texts of these papers) https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?fqor-format%5B%5D=Serial&filter%5B%5D=country_of_pub_facet%3AUnited%20Kingdom&pagesize=20&ft=ft

Australia/New Zealand Newspapers:

• TROVE, Australian Government Collection of Historical Newspapers, including many from the 19th century https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/

• Papers Past, New Zealand Government Collection of Historical Newspapers, including from the 19th century https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers

• Also check the Google Newspaper Archive, which includes:

  • The Age (Melbourne, Australia) https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=MDQ-9Oe3GGUC

  • Sydney Mail (Australia) https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=w_ORaKkuc5QC

  • Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=lL5f5cZgq8MC

• Maori Newspapers, beginning in 1842, some in English http://www.nzdl.org/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=p&p=about&c=niupepa 

 Canadian Newspapers:

• University of Alberta (Canada) Peel’s Prairie Provinces site, newspapers from the Canadian West http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/newspapers/

• University of British Columbia (Canada) Open Newspaper Archive, 100s of historical newspapers digitized https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcnewspapers

• The British Colonist online archive, a 19th century newspaper from Vancouver Island and British Columbia https://britishcolonist.ca/

• Nova Scotia (Canada) Newspapers Online https://lamns.ca/initiatives/nova-scotia-historical-newspapers-online/

• Ontario (Canada) Community Newspapers Portal https://news.ourontario.ca/search

• Also check the Google Newspaper Archive, which includes:

  • Acadian Recorder (Halifax, Canada) https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=3htObqc8RwsC

  • The British Columbian https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=RHpTSmoSYBkC

  • Canadian Illustrated News https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=kzcrU_BdoSEC

South Asian and Indian Newspapers and Periodicals, including English-language papers published in India:

• *List of English-Language South Asian Newspapers available for free online, organized by language at the Library of Congress Website, https://guides.loc.gov/south-asian-newspapers/electronic-resources

• *South Asia Open Archives newspapers, including Bengal Times and others, https://www.jstor.org/site/south-asia-open-archives/saoa/newspapers-34677887/?so=item_title_str_asc&searchkey=1727043644706

• *South Asian Newspapers Digital Archive, some beginning in 1850 https://gpa.eastview.com/crl/san/  

• *The Begnal Hurkaru and Chronicle, published in EIC India. The Library of Congress has digitized editions between 1805-1819, and from 1828-1834. https://www.loc.gov/collections/south-asian-digital-collection/?fa=original-format:newspaper

• Indian Opinion, newspaper published in South Africa for the Indian community, mostly about Gandhi’s early time in SA, starting in 1903 http://gandhimuseum.org/MGM/INDIAN%20OPINION.htm

• *The Indian Ladies Magazine, from 1916-1917, https://www.jstor.org/site/south-asia-open-archives/saoa/indian-ladies-magazine-26318859/?so=item_title_str_asc

African/E Asian/Caribbean/Middle Eastern Newspapers and Periodicals:

• Digital Library of the Caribbean, online newspaper collections, perform an advanced search of the database here https://dloc.com/search/

• Director’s Report and Accounts of the British South Africa Company, https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=bsacreports

• Indian Opinion, newspaper published in South Africa for the Indian community, mostly about Gandhi’s early time in SA, starting in 1903 http://gandhimuseum.org/MGM/INDIAN%20OPINION.htm

• Middle East and North African Newspapers, database with 84 newspapers from the region, starting in 1870 https://gpa.eastview.com/crl/mena/

• Illustrated London Times coverage of the 1857 Indian Rebellion, housed on an educational site about the rebellion https://1857india.wordpress.com/illustrated-london-times/

 Newspapers from England/Ireland/Scotland/Wales:

• The biggest database is The British Newspaper Archive, a paid database run by the British Library w/a three article free trial. It includes fully digital runs of hundreds of British newspapers, especially local papers from places outside the big cities like London and Manchester. ISU Students: This is the same as the British Library Newspaper Database that Milner pays for, linked here: https://go.gale.com/ps/start.do?p=BNCN&u=ilstu_milner

• British Cartoon Archive, from the University of Kent https://www.kent.ac.uk/library-it/special-collections/british-cartoon-archive

• Punch Magazine, available online, along with some info about the publication. Punch was a long running satirical magazine that produced some of the most famous political cartoons of the 19th century https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=punch

• The Graphic (London). An illustrated weekly newspaper, available online. https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=graphicuk1869

• Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine browse from 1817-1922. Bets to use this if you know the issue you’re looking for already http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=blackwoods

• The Nineteenth Century.  A UK magazine, begins in 1877 and after 1900 is published as The Nineteenth Century and After. Available online. https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=19thcentury

• London / Belfast / Edinburgh Gazettes, available online, along with some info about this publication. These were official government papers that contain legal and government notices, including notices of military honors and awards. https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=londongazette

• The Academy (London), available online. A review of literature, art, and science. http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=theacademy

• The Argosy (UK) The Argosy was "a magazine of tales, travels, essays, and poems", published in London in the late 19th century, available online. https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=argosyuk

• The Art Journal (London), a Victorian-era fine arts magazine published in London by J. S. Virtue and Co.https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=artjournal1839

• Cricket (London), a weekly cricket magazine published in London. Available online. https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=cricket1882

• The Fortnightly Review. A British magazine of literature and ideas founded by Anthony Trollope and other authors. Available online. https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=fortrevtrollope

• Little Folks, 19th century magazine for children. Available online. https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=littlefolksuk1871

• The Monthly Repository (London, early 19th century), a theological magazine. Available online. https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=monthrepo1806

• The National Review London. Available online, coverage only begins in 1883. https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=natreview1883

• The New Review (London). Available online from 1889-1897. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000060795

• Time (London) This is not the London Times, it’s a literary magazine. Available online. https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=timeuk1879

• To-Day (UK). A weekly magazine founded by author Jerome k. Jerome. Available online. https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=todayjerome

• Teesdale Mercury Archive (UK). Published in the small town of Barnard Castle in northern England, County Durham (mining country). From 1855.  http://www.teesdalemercuryarchive.org.uk/#

• 19th Century British Business, Labor, Temperance, and Trade Periodicals Collection. A small online collection of 19th century journals and magazines related to work and the trades. https://www.blt19.co.uk/

• The Strand Magazine (London). An illustrated monthly. Available from 1891. https://archive.org/details/TheStrandMagazineAnIllustratedMonthly/TheStrandMagazine1891aVol.IJan-jun/

• The Modernist Journals Project, an online collection of avant-garde modernist literary and art journals. https://modjourn.org/journal/

• Harold B. Lee Library Victorian Collection. Online collection of socio-political periodicals, pamphlets, and books from 19th century Britain. Look here for political pamphlets, missionary society literature, and more. https://archive.org/details/victorianbrighamyounguniv?tab=collection

• Collection of historical Welsh Newspapers, via the National Library of Wales. https://newspapers.library.wales/

• Welsh Journals Digital Collection, via the National Library of Wales, provides access to journals relating to Wales published between 1735-2007. Titles range from academic and scientific publications to literary and popular magazines https://journals.library.wales/