Modern Britain 1688-Present

17th & 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers contains the digitized materials (not just newspapers) collected by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) and held in the British Library. A useful source for find information about the United Kingdom and the wider world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.The database's advanced search offers searching publications by title, place, language, section, and date. The Publications Search link includes searching by format, including (among others) books, broadsides, forms, newspapers, and pamphlets.

17th and 18th Century Nichols Newspapers Collection features London newspapers and pamphlets gathered by antiquarian and printer John Nichols. This collection, sourced from the Bodleian Library, spans the years 1672 to 1737 and complements the titles and issues found in 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers.

British Library contains full runs of influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of 19th-century British society. Includes British Library Newspapers, Part I: 1800-1900; Part II: 1800-1900; Part III: 1741-1950; Part IV: 1732-1950; and Part V: 1746-1950

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. As well as providing access to the regular edition of this path-breaking newspaper, the archive also contains the Atlantic Editions, printed on board the transatlantic cruise liners between 1923 and 1931.

The Financial Times Historical Archive is a searchable archive of the Financial Times newspapers from 1888-2010.

Search The Guardian (1821-2003) its sister paper, The Observer (1791-2003), Irish Times (1859-2012) Weekly Irish Times (1876-1958), and the Times of India (1838-2005). The Guardian was published in response to the Peterloo Massacre and The Observer being the World's oldest Sunday newspaper.

The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842–2003 from Gale allows researchers to access the entire run of this groundbreaking publication in a fully searchable digital format. High-quality color facsimile images bring to life more than 150 years of social, political and cultural history for scholarly and enthusiast researchers. Areas covered include politics, social history, fashion, theatre, media, literature, advertising and graphic design, as well as genealogy.

The Independent is a UK daily national newspaper. Since its launch in 1986 it has been one of the most innovative papers available in terms of design and avenues of investigation, while its freedom from party political affiliation and neutral ownership make it unique in British journalism.

Irish Newspaper Archive contains 40 full-text searchable digitized Irish newspapers, with issues spanning the 1700s to current day, as well as the Radical & Political Newspapers collection of over 100 publications related to the political unrest in Ireland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Newspapers with both local and national scope and circulation are included and new titles and issues added regularly.

The Picture Post Historical Archive contains every issue of the pioneering photojournalism newspaper. High-principled yet entertaining, and featuring a whole stable of extraordinarily talented photographers, Picture Post (1938-1957) was read by an estimated 80% of the British population at its peak. It is an essential resource for studying international social and political issues of the day, and how they were brought into popular consciousness.

The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2000 has over 1 million pages of content from the British daily newspaper. It includes the Sunday edition from its inception in 1961.

Provides full-text access to back issues of The Times newspaper from 1785 to 2006. Does not include The Sunday Times, a separate publication.

Scattered holdings of important UK titles which shift as contractual agreements change.

Scattered holdings of important UK titles which shift as contractual agreements change.

PressReader (formerly PressDisplay) provides access to newspapers from around the world, often in the original language. Dates of coverage vary from the most current three months to the most current decade. Newspapers are presented in a browsable, "as printed" visual format.