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Here is the list of the current titles that are available for free:
- Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser, 1875-1879
- Baldwin’s London Weekly Journal, etc., 1803-1836
- Barbados Mercury, and Bridge-town Gazette, 1807-1848
- Barbados Mercury, 1783-1789
- Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram, 1874-1879
- Bridlington and Quay Gazette, 1877
- Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser, 1865 and 1877-1879
- Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette, 1879
- Brighton Patriot and South of England Free Press, 1835-1839
- British Miner and General Newsman, 1862-1863
- Caledonian Mercury, 1720-1799 and 1800-1859
- Champion, 1836
- Chartist Circular, 1839-1841
- Chartist, 1839
- Cleave’s Weekly Police Gazette and Journal of News, Politics, and Literature, 1836
- Cleave’s Weekly Police Gazette, 1835-1836
- Cobbett’s Annual Register, 1802-1804
- Cobbett’s Weekly Political Register, 1804-1836
- Colored News, 1855
- Cradley Heath & Stourbridge Observer, 1864
- Darlington & Richmond Herald, 1873-1879
- Denton & Haughton Weekly News, and Audenshaw, Hooley Hill, and Dukinfield Advertiser, 1874-1875
- Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc., 1878-1879
- Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser, 1875-1878
- Examiner, 1808-1880
- Glasgow Courier, 1802 and 1844-1866
- Illustrated Sporting and Theatrical News, 1865-1870
- Illustrated Sporting News and Theatrical and Musical Review, 1862-1865
- Imperial Gazette, 1823-1825
- Industrial Review, Social and Political, 1877-1878
- Jewish Record, 1868-1871
- Liverpool Standard and General Advertiser, 1854-1855
- Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser, 1855-1856
- Liverpool Weekly Courier, 1867-1879
- Lloyd’s Companion to the “Penny Sunday Times and Peoples’ Police Gazette”, 1841-1847
- London Dispatch, 1836-1839
- Manchester Times and Manchester and Salford Advertiser and Chronicle, 1848
- Manchester Times, 1828-1829
- Middlesbro’ & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser, 1868-1871
- Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser, 1869-1876
- Mirror of the Times, 1800-1823
- Morning Chronicle, 1801-1865
- Morning Herald, 1801-1869
- National Register, 1808-1823
- News and Sunday Herald, 1835-1837
- Northern Liberator, 1837-1840
- Northern Star and Leeds General Advertiser, 1838-1844
- Northern Times, 1857-1860
- Pictorial Times, 1843-1848
- Pierce Egan’s Life in London, 1824-1827
- Runcorn and Widnes Examiner, 1870-1876
- Runcorn Examiner, 1877-1879
- Southern Star, 1840
- Stalybridge Examiner, and Ashton, Dukinfield and Mossley Advertiser, 1876
- Stockton Gazette and Middlesbrough Times, 1860-1865
- Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser, 1858-1879
- Stretford and Urmston Examiner, 1879
- Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press, 1847-1879
- The Age, 1825-1843
- The Argus, or, Broad-sheet of the Empire, 1839-1843
- The Atherstone Times, 1879
- The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times, 1879
- The Barbadian, 1822-1861
- The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser, 1863-1879
- The Beacon (Edinburgh), 1821
- The Beacon (London), 1822
- The Bee-Hive, 1862-1870
- The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser, 1878-1879
- The Blackpool Herald, 1874-1879
- The British Emancipator, 1837-1840
- The British Liberator, 1833
- The British Luminary and National Intelligencer, 1818
- The British Luminary and Weekly Intelligence, 1820
- The British Luminary and Weekly Intelligencer, 1821-1823
- The British Luminary, or Weekly Intelligencer, 1820
- The British Luminary; or, Weekly News and General Advertiser, 1818
- The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser (Very incomplete), 1803-1826
- The Caledonian Mercury and Daily Express, 1860
- The Caledonian Mercury, 1860-1867
- The Cannock Chase Examiner, 1874-1877
- The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser, 1866-1879
- The Champion and Weekly Herald, 1837-1840
- The Charter, 1839-1840
- The Commonwealth, 1866-1867
- The Daily Times, 1860-1861
- The Darlington & Stockton Telegraph, Richmond Herald, South Durham and North York Review, 1867-1873
- The Denton, Haughton, & District Weekly News, 1873-1874
- The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser, 1869-1879
- The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette, 1858-1879
- The Express, 1846-1869
- The Forest of Dean Examiner, 1873-1877
- The Glasgow Chronicle, 1844-1857
- The Imperial Weekly Gazette and Westminster Journal, 1818-1823
- The Imperial Weekly Gazette, 1808-1810
- The Jamaica Mercury and Kingston Weekly Advertiser, 1779-1780
- The Kenilworth Advertiser, 1869-1879
- The Lady’s Newspaper and Pictorial Times, 1847-1863
- The Lady’s Own Paper, 1866-1872
- The Lancaster Herald, and Town and County Advertiser, 1831-1832
- The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser, 1832-1854
- The Manchester Examiner, 1846-1848
- The Manchester Times and Gazette, 1829-1848
- The Middlesbrough Gazette and General Advertiser, 1869
- The Midland Examiner and Times, 1877
- The Midland Examiner and Wolverhampton Times, 1877-1878
- The Miner and Workman’s Advocate, 1863-1865
- The Miner, 1863
- The New Weekly True Sun, 1836
- The News and Sunday Globe, 1837-1839
- The News, 1805 and 1807-1835
- The Northern Daily Times, 1853-1857
- The Northern Liberator and Champion, 1840
- The Northern Star and National Trades’ Journal, 1844-1852
- The Nuneaton Times, 1875-1879
- The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle, 1864-1866
- The Odd Fellow, 1839-1842
- The Operative, 1838-1839
- The Penny Bee-Hive, 1870
- The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News, 1878-1879
- The Poole Telegram, 1879
- The Poor Man’s Guardian, 1831-1835
- The Potteries Examiner, 1871-1879
- The Press, 1853-1866
- The Royal Gazette and Jamaica Times, 1838-1840
- The Royal Gazette of Jamaica, 1840
- The Royal Gazette, 1780-1836
- The Saint James’s Chronicle, 1801-1866
- The Shropshire Examiner and All Round the Wrekin Advertiser, 1874-1877
- The South Staffordshire Examiner, 1874
- The St. Helens Examiner, and Prescot Weekly News, 1879
- The Star and National Trades’ Journal, 1852
- The Star of Freedom, 1852
- The Star, 1801-1831
- The Statesman, 1806-1824
- The Stockton Examiner, and South Durham and North Yorkshire Herald, 1878-1879
- The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle, 1866-1879
- The Sun, 1801-1871
- The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men’s Journal, 1873-1876
- The Tamworth Miners’ Examiner and Working Men’s Journal, 1873
- The Warrington & Mid-Cheshire Examiner, 1879
- The Warrington Examiner, 1869-1878
- The Weekly Chronicle and Register of Banking, Insurance, Railway and Mining Companies, Trade and Commerce, 1864-1867
- The Weekly Chronicle and Register, 1855-1864
- The Weekly Chronicle, 1836-1851
- The Weekly Chronicle, 1855
- The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District, 1876-1879
- The Weekly Intelligencer, and British Luminary, 1820-1821
- The Weekly News and Chronicle, 1851-1854
- The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram, 1860-1878
- The Wolverhampton and Midland Counties Advertiser, 1875-1876
- The Wolverhampton Times and Bilston, Willenhall, Wednesfield, and Sedgley Journal, 1874-1875
- The Workman’s Advocate, 1865-1866
- Westminster Journal and Old British Spy, 1805-1810
- Widnes Examiner, 1876-1879
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