History: an introduction: Newspapers

Jawi-script newspaper and magazine articles published between 1930-1941 in the Straits Settlements and the Malay Peninsula, transliterated into romanised Malay.

NewspapersSG is an online resource of current and historic Singapore and Malaya newspapers created by the National Library Board. Please use Factiva or LexisNexis to search for newspaper articles after 1991.

NLB's microfilm collection contains newspapers that has not been digitized. You will need to head to NLB at Bugis to view them.

These press clippings on Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei and ASEAN are from the Straits Times and Business Times. They are arranged by broad subjects and are great if you want some sort of curated look at that particular person/subject.

Qalam is a Jawi-script newspaper that was published in Singapore and distributed in Malaya, Singapore, Indonesia, Borneo and the Southern part of Thailand. It provide researchers with invaluable information on the activities and thoughts of Muslims living in the Malay world in the 1950s and 1960s

This collection provides images and full-text content access to more than 650 historic newspapers listed in Clarence Brigham's authoritative bibliography, History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820, and in additional subsequent bibliographies. Chronicles the evolution of American culture and daily life from 1690 to the recent past.

University of British Columbia project providing access to 24 historical newspapers from British Columbia dating from 1865 to 1924.

This digital repository from the Library of Congress allows you to search historic newspaper pages from the U.S from 1836-1922. It also provides a Newspaper Directory with information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.

FBIS Daily Reports issued by the U.S. Government. Translations of broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the world

NewspaperCat offers online digitized historical newspaper content from newspapers published in the United States and the Caribbean. It currently covers over 1,500 full-text newspaper titles.

The Opinion Archives platform allows you to search historical and current newspaper content and links to the full text article. It covers a list of American newspaper titles.

This free database contains newspapers from French Indochina. The coverage for the newspaper varies.

Published in Kalimpong, India, this newspaper represents a major historical source for research into the political and social developments in the Eastern Himalayas after World War II. The editorials, articles, and news reports provide an important local perspective on peoples' lives in the border region between India, Nepal, Tibet, China, and Bhutan, as well as their encounters with Europe and the West.

The Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection is currently the world’s largest online archive of open-access, full‑image Japanese American and other overseas Japanese newspapers. All image content in this collection has enhancements added where possible, thus rendering the text maximally searchable. The holdings of each title are also browsable by date, with each title cross searchable with other titles on the platform. This collection today contains over eighty newspapers titles published in Hawaii and the Americas. Most publications present a mix of content in Japanese and English, with formats and the proportionality of Japanese/English often changing as a reflection of shifting business and social circumstances.

The English-language North China Herald is the prime printed source in any language for the history of the foreign presence in China from around 1850 to 1940s. During this so-called ‘treaty century’ (1842-1943) the Western Powers established a strong presence in China through their protected enclaves in major cities. It was published weekly in Shanghai, at the heart of China’s encounter with the Euro-American world in a city at the forefront of developments in Chinese politics, culture, education and the economy. As the official journal for British consular notifications, and announcements of the Shanghai Municipal Council, it is the first -- and sometimes only -- point of reference for information and comment on a range of foreign and Chinese activities. It also regularly features translations of Chinese official notifications and news.

The Old Hong Kong Newspapers Collection is a selective collection of major old Hong Kong Newspapers published from early Hong Kong to nowadays, aiming at preserving historical news reporting of Hong Kong for reference and research.

People’s Daily is the official voice of the central government and the Communist Party of China. It provides the single location where the central government and the Communist Party announce their respective policies and disseminate governmental, political, and economic messages to the public and the world. Most importantly, since its inception the newspaper has been the true barometer of the political climate of Chinese society on a daily basis. Directly from the People’s Daily Press, this database contains the complete run of the past daily issues covering from 1946 to today’s issue

This free database contains numerous Dutch-language newspapers from the former Dutch East Indies / Indonesia from 1744 to 1958.

Shen Pao is one of the key Chinese Newspaper in China prior to the CCP taking over mainland China.

Sin Po was a Chinese-Malay (Peranakan) publication that was first published as a weekly newspaper by young Peranakan Chinese in Jakarta on 1 October 1910. Sin Po became a daily newspaper in 1912 to meet increasing demand and shortly became one of the largest Malay newspapers in the Dutch East Indies. The political objective of Sin Po was to promote Chinese nationalism and to take a strong stance against Dutch colonialism. Sin Po played a crucial role in the development of language and culture. It provided a space for writers to contribute their articles or stories, which exemplified the current debates of society at that time. Sin Po also contributed considerably to form what is today referred to as Bahasa Indonesia. Many Chinese (mostly Hokkien, a dialect in Chinese) words have become an integral part of the Indonesian language. Sin Po also includes advertisement typically on natural/alternative medicines, beverages, cosmetics, clothing, tobaccos, etc.

This collection of early English newspapers contains 1 million newspaper pages. It covers newspaper titles from London, the British Isles, and colonies. The collection is full text searchable.

British Library Newspaper database that has many 19th century British Newspapers.

British Library's (BL) project digitizing various local papers from across the United Kingdom as held in BL's collections.

Online archive of the International Times, the pioneer in the British underground press. The website made by the Underground Press Archive Group provides access to issues of the International Times published in the years: 1966-1980; 1982; 1986 and 1994.

The Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (ncse) is a free, online edition of six nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers. ncse includes full runs of the first five titles, and a decade only of the Publishers' Circular. Titles are represented as completely as possible, including multiple editions, advertisements, wrappers, and supplements where these could be found. Titles are:
Monthly Repository (1806-1837) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Northern Star (1838-1852), Leader (1850-1860), English Woman's Journal (1858-1864), Tomahawk (1867-1870), and Publishers' Circular (1880-1890). All six journals are segmented to article level, and can be downloaded freely.

Full text searchable digital edition of The International Catholic News Weekly published in London. Covers the entire archive from 1840 to date

Welsh Newspapers Online Beta is a free online resource from the National Library of Wales which currently lets you search and access over 250,000 pages from 24 newspaper publications from years 1844 to 1910. It will grow to over 1 million pages as more publications are added during 2013.

Anno from the Austrian National Library allows you to browse through digital facsimiles of around 500 Austrian newspapers and magazines from 16th Century to the 1940s. For the period 1704-1872, there is full-text searching available in their Beta system. Note: the newspapers are in German.

Gallica, the digital library of the Bibliothéque nationale de France, hosts numerous newspaper titles from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Titles currently include Le Figaro (1830-1942), Le Temps (1861-1935), La Croix (1883-1944), L'Humanité (1904-1944), La Presse (1836-1858), and Le Journal des débats (1814-1912). (Newspapers in French)

A digital edition of The Journal de Genève, the French-language daily paper, published in Geneva. Searches may be carried out by keyword, date or period, with the possibility to limit a search by period or content (articles, titles of articles, images, advertising). You can then view the page or the specific item you want. (French)

Provides access to word searchable facsimiles of La Gazette de Lausanne, the Swiss newspaper, and its predecessors, from 1798 to 1998. (French)

Australian online resources: books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and more. Includes historic Australian newspaper pages from 1803 -1954, digitised as part of the Australian Newspaper Digitisation Project

Papers Past contains more than one million pages of digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals. The collection covers the years 1840 to 1915 and includes publications from all regions of New Zealand.