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British and Irish Studies: Newspapers

Print and microfilm

Great Britain

  • Financial Times
       Paper Location: Bostock 1st floor
  • Guardian Weekly
       Paper Location: Bostock 1st floor
  • Independent (London)
       Paper Location: Bostock 1st floor
       S6526 / 1986 - 1/2009
  • Observer (London)
       S153 / 1957 - to 2009
       Note: This title is held in the LSC.
  • Sunday Times (London)
          Paper Location: Bostock 1st floor
       S169 / 1880 - to date
  • Times (London)
       Paper Location: Bostock 1st floor
       S172 / 1785 - to date
       NOTE: This title is held in the LSC.
    Ireland
  • Irish Times
       Paper Location: Bostock 1st floor

Online

  • 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
    17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers provides full-text access to the British Library's collection of the newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817)..
  • 19th Century British Library Newspapers 
    The 19th Century British Library Newspapers collection contains full runs of newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth-century Britain. This new collection includes national and regional newspapers.
  • British Newspapers 1600-1900  Cross-searches these databases: 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers and 19th Century British Library Newspapers.
  • Guardian and The Observer
    The Guardian (1821-2003) and its sister paper, The Observer (1791-2003) provide online access to facts, firsthand accounts, and opinions of the day about the most significant and fascinating political, business, sports, literary, and entertainment
  • LexisNexis Academic (w/ Full Text Articles)
    Provides full text access to a wide range of British newspapers, radio and television transcripts going back to the 1980s.
  • Telegraph  Historical Archive  (1855-  )
  • The Times Digital Archive
    Search The Times (London) from 1785-1985 in full-text; provides facsimile reproductions of full pages or specific articles.  HINT: search in full-text rather than keyword to get the best retrieval. Sunday Times Digital Archive.

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Interlibrary Loan

CRL Newspaper Catalog
The Center for Research Libraries holds many British and Irish newspapers on microfilm  They can be borrowed for extended periods.