International News
Historical Archives
The U.S. seems to have the lion's share of old archived newspapers, but more and more, digitized archives for historical international papers are coming online as well. They cover a broad swath of world. history -- from the 17th to the 21st century --and include Europe, Canada and elswhere in the Americas, Australia, India, the Carribean, the Mideast, and a host of places in between. Headlines, articles, display ads, broadsides, classifieds...they're all there for the taking.
Canadian Newspaper Archives
Canadian newspapers and the Second World War
Title says it all, eh?
British Columbia, Canada newspaper archives, from 1926 on, courtesy of the Terrace, BC library. The unusual search interface is worth a visit.
More British Columbia, Canada papers from the Prince George newspaper project, covering 1906-1935, with more anticipated.
Toronto Star
Covers the past century. Free searching, but one of the worst search interfaces I've come across. You have to pay for full content, too.
Manitoba, Canada Newspaper Archives, 1859-present. More than a dozen fully searchable newspapers here, including the Nor'Wester, one of Manitoba's earliest papers. Papers in French and English are available.
Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada Maritime Newspaper Archives, 19th and 20th centuries. Two papers, the Twillington Sun (1884-1924) and French-language Le Gaboteur (1984-1995) are browseable by date, along with an assortment of other resources.
Quebec, Canada French and English Language Newspaper Archives, 1826-1978. More than a dozen papers here, browseable by date only, courtesy of the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.
Alberta, Canada Newspaper Archives
Covering the period 1885-2001, this is another impressively large digitized collection, but issues can only be browsed, not searched. Why do they do that?
UK and Ireland Newspaper Archives:
Six 18th and 19th century British (England and Scotland) publications are online, covering roughly 1750-1850. This is a cool collection, and includes the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
UK Gazettes offer 350 years of official government notices from London, Belfast and Edinburgh. Full-text searching and PDF results..a very arcane, but very worhtwhile resource.
Penny Illustrated, another UK offering from 1861-1913. The paper is more interesting that you might think...try a search on "Civil War".
British Library Newspaper Archive
You get a smattering of UK papers from late 19th/early 20th century. Very sporadic coverage, and a painful search interface, but worth bookmarking, at least.
Irish Newspaper Archive
Varied newspapers and date ranges, some as early as 1763 Free to search, but it will cost you to retrieve full text.
The Guardian (UK)
Awkward searching, but free content for the past century.
The Scotsman Digital Archive
1817 to 1950
Scottish history, free to search, results show headline only. You have to pay for full copies.
NewspaperArchive.com
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German historical newspapers.
There are numerous digitized collections from Germany. Most seem broweable but not full-text searchable, but visit the sites below to explore the full capabilities:
Assorted Bavarian German newspaper archivess, with intermittent coverage from early 1700's to 1945.
Deutsche Exilzeitschriften, 1933-1945. Newspaper archives from assorted Germann exile communities.
Freiburger Zeitung (1784-1943), Staufener Wochenblatt (1875-1968) and other German newspaper archive materials.
Historische Zeitungen und Zeitschriften--German Newspaper archives from Saxony, mostly early 1800's
Latvian newspapers, 1886-1957. There are a lot of newspapers here, browseable by date.
Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg German newspaper archives. Includes field newspapers from World War I, Heidelberger Zeitung (1861-1919), and Der Heidelberger Student (1929-1938)
Die Zeit Online has archives dating back at least to 1946, although I've found earlier ones as well. This is one of Germany's most well-respected newspapers. Interface is in German, and full page images are available.
Other European Newspaper Archives
Denmark Illustreret Tidende, 1759-1865, a Danish magazine style newspaper. Browseable by date.
Finnish Historical Newspapers -- 1771-1890
Quite a deep collection of dozens of newspapers, almost a million digitized pages, in all. Searchable, if you happen to know Finnish.
Nordic newspaper archives
You want historical? Some of these papers date back to 1645. Several collections from Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland can be linked to from this site.
Austrian Newspaper Archives
Newspaper and assorted magazines and journals, from the period 1808-1938. I'm not certain of the search tools available, as the site is in German.
Estonian Newspaper Archives from 1821-1944. If you can read Estonian, this should be a valuable site, but there is no English interface.
French Newspaper Archives. The French, their wonderful history notwithstanding, have done a mediocre job archiving their newspapers, but a few are available at this archives page. They are not searchable, but full page images can be retrieved by date. Date coverage is poorly described (quelle surprise!), but coverage includes Le Figaro, Le Temps, Le Croix, and others, chiefly from the 1800s to early 1900s.
Mercure Francois, 1605-1643, France's oldest newspaper, is another French resource, more wonderful than most.
Another oldie from France, sort of French and German, is this University of Heidelberg archive of a Strausbourg newspaper from 1609-1610.
Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Islands Archives. The VESTNORD project covers news and magazines from the frozen parts of the Atlantic with (bless them) an option for an English-language interface. Coverage from 1773-2001.
Greek language newspapers. Assorted newspapers from Greece covering 1893-1983, fully searchable.
Italy newspaper archvies. Le Gazzette Bolognesi, 1674-1796, full image, can be browsed by date.
More 19th and 20th cenury Italian language papers, from Italy, New York, and elsewhere. There are over a million pages of newspapers, journals and magazines here, mostly browseable by date and title.
Luxembourg, 1704-1940, intermittent coverage of assorted newspaper archives, browseable by date.
NewspaperArchive.com
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Newspaper Archives from Elsewhere in the World
Australian Digitized Collection
That's Australia, mate, not Austria. Magazines such as the "The Adelaide Independent and Cabinet of Amusement", mostly from the 1840-1850 period, and fully searchable.
Also from Australia, the Nambour Chronicle and North Coast Advertiser is online and searchable, from 1903-1955. Free (and easy) registration is required.
Maori Newspapers
Yep. Maori language newspapers from New Zealand, covering the period 1842-1932.
New Zealand PapersPast newspapers
And for the non-Maori speakers among you, more than a million pages of NZ newspapers, from 1839-1915, full-text searchable.
Hebrew language newspapers;from 1856-1914. Searching and results are entirely in Hebrew. It's not clear where the papers are from, geographically, but a significant resource for Jewish history.
Caribbean Newspaper Imaging Project has newspaper archives from Cuba (1947-1961, in Spanish) and Haiti (1899-1979, in French). Content can be searched by topics and keywords, and full images can be viewed after downloading a free plug-in.
From India, the Andhra Patrika, 1931-1941 in (probably) Sanskrit. These are straight PDF images, available as large file downloads.
Indonesia newspaper archives, WWII era, 1940-1946, courtesy of the Netherlands Institute. Full image papers can only be browsed by date.
The Jewish Press Site
Includes The Palestine Post 1932-1950, and two French language publications. The Bulletin de l'Alliance Israelite Universelle 1860-1913. and Paix Et Droit 1921-1940.
Mexico newspaper archives at the Hemeroteca Nacional Digital. Newspapers are supposedly available here, though I couldn't work my way through the registration process.
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