United Kingdom Free Online Historical Newspapers

In 2014, this website began to curate links to free online newspapers in the United States. The initial publication listed about 10,000 titles. A few years later, digitized and free Canadian newspaper collection links were curated and published. Today, between the two countries there are over 47,500 historical newspaper titles that are listed. The common denominator is that they are free to search and/or browse online.

This brings us to Europe. There are 44 countries in Europe. I suspect that we will not be able to find free titles in all the countries, but that is our goal.

Each country’s page will list nationwide titles, titles from other collections, and individual titles that are free to search and browse. Many countries have titles from other countries in their national libraries. They will be listed on the page of the collection that holds that title.

Note regarding UK online newspapers: The great majority of online historical newspapers can be found in subscription-only databases, which are listed at the bottom of this page.

United Kingdom

Nationwide Collections

British Newspaper Archive Free Newspapers

Aberdeen Herald1844-1862, 1876
Age (London)1825-1845
Age 18521852-1853
Agricultural Advertiser and Tenant-Farmers’ Advocate1846-1846
Albion and the Star1830-1835
Albion1852-1853
Alloa Circular1875-1880
Alston Herald and East Cumberland Advertiser1875-1879
Anti-Gallican Monitor1811-1825
Argus, or, Broad-sheet of the Empire1839-1843
Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times1879-1879
Aurora Borealis1821-1821
Ayrshire Express1863-1863
Baldwin’s London Weekly Journal1803-1836
Ballot1831-1832
Baner ac Amserau Cymru1857-1870, 1872-1896, 1899, 1900
Barbados Mercury, Barbados Mercury, and Bridge-town Gazette1783-1789, 1807-1848
Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser1863-1879
Beacon (Edinburgh)1821-1821
Beacon (London)1822-1822
Bee-Hive1862-1878
Bell’s Family Newspaper1858-1858
Bell’s News1855-1857
Bell’s Penny Dispatch1842-1842
Berthold’s Political Handkerchief1831-1831
Birkenhead News1878-1879
Blackburn Standard1835-1840, 1845-1869, 1872, 1873, 1875-1882, 1884, 1886-1900
Blackpool Gazette & Herald1874-1879
Blandford and Wimborne Telegram1874-1879
Border Advertiser1868-1880
Borough of Greenwich Free Press1855-1865
Brecon Reporter and South Wales General Advertiser1863-1867
Bridge of Allan Reporter1875-1879
Bridlington and Quay Gazette1877-1877
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram1865, 1877-1879
Brief1877-1882
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette1879-1879
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette1894-1899
Brighton Patriot1835-1839
Brighton Patriot1840-1840
Bristol Mercury1716 ,1790, 1819-1896, 1898-1900
British Army Despatch1848-1856
British Banner 18481848-1856
British Banner 18561856-1858
British Emancipator1837-1840
British Ensign1859-1864
British Liberator1833-1833
British Luminary1818-1823
British Luminary1820-1821
British Mercury or Wednesday Evening Post1806-1825
British Miner and General Newsman1862-1867
British Neptune1803-1823
British Press1803-1826
British Standard1857-1866
British Statesman1842-1843
Bury and Norwich Post1786-1794, 1801-1871, 1873-1895, 1898-1900
Caledonian Mercury1720-1867
Cardiff Shipping and Mercantile Gazette1875-1878
Cardigan & Tivy-side Advertiser1870-1871, 1877, 1879
Cavan Observer1857-1864
Censor or Satirical Times1846-1846
Central Glamorgan Gazette1866-1879
Champion (London)1813-1822
Charles Knight’s Town & Country Newspaper1855-1856
Chartist Circular1839-1841
Chelsea & Pimlico Advertiser1860-1866
Chepstow & County Mercury1874-1874
Christian Times1863-1871
City Chronicle1840-1845
City of London Trade Protection Circular1848-1849
Cleave’s Weekly Police Gazette1835-1836
Clerkenwell Dial and Finsbury Advertiser1862-1865
Cobbett’s Evening Post1820-1820
Cobbett’s Weekly Political Register1802-1836
Colonist and Commercial Weekly Advertiser1824-1825
Colored News1855-1855
Commercial Chronicle (London)1804, 1815-1823
Common Sense1824-1826
Commonwealth (Glasgow)1853-1860, 1880
Constitution (London)1818-1823
Constitution1831-1832
Cork Advertising Gazette1855-1859
Court Gazette and Fashionable Guide1838-1841
Cradley Heath & Stourbridge Observer1864-1879
Crieff Journal1875-1880
Crown1838-1839
Current Prices of Grain at Dublin Corn Exchange1860-1861
Daily Director and Entr’acte1859-1860
Daily Politician1836-1836
Darlington & Richmond Herald1870-1870, 1873-1874
Denton and Haughton Examiner1873-1879
Dewsbury Chronicle and West Riding Advertiser1872-1875
Dissenter1812-1812
Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette1858-1879
Douglas Jerrold’s Weekly Newspaper1846-1851
Drogheda News Letter1813-1813
Dublin Shipping and Mercantile Gazette1871-1871
Dublin Weekly Herald1838-1842
Duckett’s Dispatch1818-1818
Dunfermline Journal1852, 1880
East London Advertiser1862-1866
East Riding Telegraph1895-1896
Edinburgh Courant1750-1750
Edinburgh Evening Post and Scottish Standard1846, 1849
Edinburgh Gazette1699-1699
Emigrant and the Colonial Advocate1848-1848
English Chronicle and Whitehall Evening Post1801-1802 ,1804, 1807, 1809-1843
Englishman1803-1813, 1816-1834
Essex Standard1831-1844 ,1846-1897, 1899, 1900
Evening Star (London)1842-1843
Exeter Flying Post1800-1866, 1869-1885, 1889-1900
Express (London)1846-1869
Fleming’s British Farmers’ Chronicle1823-1829
Fleming’s Weekly Express1823-1826
Fonetic Nuz1849-1849
Forest of Dean Examiner1875-1877
Francis’s Metropolitan News1859-1859
Friend of India and Statesman1852-1883
Galloway Advertiser and Wigtownshire Free Press.1852-1872
General Evening Post1801-1813, 1818-1822
Glasgow Chronicle1844-1857
Glasgow Constitutional1853, 1855
Glasgow Courant1745,1746, 1758
Glasgow Courier1802, 1844-1866
Glasgow Evening Times1879-1879
Glasgow Herald1820-1822,1826,1827,1844-1900
Glasgow Saturday Post, and Paisley and Renfrewshire Reformer1861, 1864
Glasgow Sentinel1821-1823
Golden Times1852-1852
Haddingtonshire Courier1875-1877
Halifax Comet1892-1893
Hammersmith Advertiser1861-1866
Hetherington’s Twopenny Dispatch1836-1836
High Life in London1827-1828
Highland Sentinel1861-1861
Hour1873-1876
Huddersfield Chronicle1850-1874,1876-1896,1898-1900
Illustrated Advertiser of the Royal Dublin Society1850-1850
Illustrated London Life1843-1843
Illustrated Sporting News and Theatrical and Musical Review1862-1870
Illustrated Weekly Times1843-1843
Imperial Weekly Gazette1808-1810, 1818-1825
Instructor and Select Weekly Advertiser1809-1811, 1813-1815
Islington Times1857-1865, 1871-1874
Jewish Record1868-1871
Johnson’s Sunday Monitor1804-1821, 1824-1829
Journal of the Chemico-Agricultural Society of Ulster1849-1854, 1856-1865, 1867
Kelso Mail1869-1880
Kenilworth Advertiser1872-1879
Kingsland Times and General Advertiser1860-1863
Kinross-shire Advertiser1850-1880
Kirkcaldy Times1879-1880
Lady’s Newspaper and Pictorial Times1847-1863
Lady’s Own Paper1866-1872
Lancaster Gazette1801-1836,1838,1841-1848,1850-1894
Lancaster Herald and Town and County Advertiser1831-1832
Leinster Independent1871-1872
Liverpool Albion1827-1880
Liverpool Chronicle 17671767-1768
Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser1832-1856
Liverpool Telegraph1836-1838
Liverpool Weekly Courier1867-1879
Lloyd’s Companion to the Penny Sunday Times and Peoples’ Police Gazette1841-1847
London Chronicle and Country Record1853-1854
London Chronicle1800-1822
London Daily Guide and Stranger’s Companion1859-1860
London Dispatch1836-1839
London Evening Post1805-1806
London Free Press1827-1827
London Halfpenny Newspaper1861-1861
London Journal and General Advertiser for Town and Country1836-1837
London Journal and Pioneer Newspaper1845-1846
London Mercury 18281828-1828
London Mercury 18361836-1836
London Mercury 18471847-1848
London Mercury1826-1826
London Moderator and National Adviser1813-1814, 1818-1823
London Packet and New Lloyd’s Evening Post1801, 1803-1805, 1809, 1814-1815, 1818-1836
London Phalanx1841-1843
London Railway Newspaper1845-1845
London Telegraph1824-1825
Manchester Examiner1848-1848
Manchester Times1828-1848
Manchester Times1849-1900
Meath People1857-1863
Metropolitan1856-1857
Midland Examiner and Times1877-1878
Mirror of the Times1800-1823
Missionary Herald of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland1855-1855
Monitor and Missionary Chronicle1853-1855
Monthly Times1842-1849
Morning Chronicle1801-1865
Morning Gazette1837-1837
Morning Herald (London)1801-1869
Munster Express1869-1871
Nairnshire Mirror1845 ,1846, 1848-1854
Nantwich, Sandbach & Crewe Star1888-1892
National Protector1847-1847
National Register (London)1808-1823
National Standard1858-1860
National1835-1835
New Court Gazette1840-1846
New Globe1823-1823
New Times (London)1818-1830
New Weekly True Sun1836-1836
Newcastle Courant1710-1718, 1720-1801, 1803, 1805-1807, 1819-1822, 1824-1874, 1877-1879, 1881-1885, 1887-1893, 1895-1896, 1898-1900
Newport Gazette1857-1869
Nonconformist Elector1847-1847
North British Advertiser & Ladies’ Journal1879-1880
North London Record1858-1869
North Londoner1869-1875
North-West London Times1861-1866
Northern Advertiser (Aberdeen)1858-1880
Northern Daily Times1853-1861
Northern Liberator1837-1840
Northern Star and Leeds General Advertiser1838-1852
Nuneaton Times1878-1879
Observer of the Times1821-1822
Old England1832-1836, 1839-1842
Oracle and the Daily Advertiser1801-1809
Paddington Advertiser1861-1866
Palladium 18251825-1826
Palladium 18291829-1829
Patriot1832-1866
Pen and Pencil1855-1855
People’s Hue and Cry or Weekly Police Register1834-1834
People’s Paper1852-1858
Pictorial Times1843-1848
Picture Times1855-1856
Pierce Egan’s Life in London, and Sporting Guide1824-1827
Pilot (London)1808-1813, 1815
Planet1837-1844
Political Letter1831-1831
Political Observer1819-1820
Pontypridd District Herald1878-1879
Poole Telegram1879-1879
Poor Man’s Guardian1831-1835
Porcupine1800-1801
Portobello Advertiser1876-1877
Potteries Examiner1871-1879
Potteries Examiner1880-1880
Press (London)1853-1866
Preston Pilot1842, 1877-1879
Principality (Cardiff)1880-1880
Public Cause1811-1812, 1814-1816
Radical 18311831-1831
Radical 18361836-1836
Railway Bell and London Advertiser1844-1846
Reformer1831-1831
Representative 18221822-1823
Representative 18261826-1826
Rhyl Journal1877-1878
Royal Gazette of Jamaica1779-1836, 1838-1840
Royal York1827-1827
Runcorn Examiner1870-1879
Sainsbury’s Weekly Register and Advertising Journal1859-1864
Saint James’s Chronicle1801-1866
Satirist; or, the Censor of the Times1831-1849
Scottish Banner1859-1860
Scottish Press1849-1862
Sheffield Public Advertiser1760-1763,1768,1770,1772,1774,1776,1787,1790-1793
Shropshire Examiner1874-1877
Silurian1838-1855
Skibbereen & West Carbery Eagle; or, South Western Advertiser1861-1870
Sligo Observer1828-1831
South London Times and Lambeth Observer1856-1865
South Staffordshire Examiner1874-1874
Southwark Mercury1879-1881
St. Helens Examiner1879-1879
Standard of Freedom1848-1851
Star (London)1801-1831
Statesman (London)1806-1824
Stockton Examiner and South Durham and North Yorkshire Herald1879-1879
Stockton Gazette and Middlesbrough Times1860-1865, 1868-1879
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser1858-1879
Stretford and Urmston Examiner1879-1879
Sun (London)1801-1871
Sun & Central Press1871-1874
Sunday Evening Globe1836-1837
Sunday Morning Herald1824-1824
Sunday News1823-1823
Surrey & Middlesex Standard1835-1840
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald1847-1879
Tamworth Miners’ Examiner and Working Men’s Journal1873-1876
Tenby Observer1869-1876
Thacker’s Overland News for India and the Colonies1857-1864
The Age1825-1843
The Ashton Weekly Reporter, and Stalybridge and Dukinfield Chronicle1876-1876
The Barbadian1822-1861
The Cannock Chase Examiner1874-1877
The Champion1836-1840
The Charter1839-1840
The Chartist1839-1839
The Day1809-1816
The Examiner1808-1880
The Irish Racing Book and Sheet Calendar1823-1841, 1849-1869
The News (London)1805-1839
The Odd Fellow1839-1842
The Operative1838-1839
Tower Hamlets Mail1857-1858
Town & Country Daily Newspaper1873-1873
Town Talk1858-1859
Trade Protection Record1849-1850
Trades’ Free Press1825-1831
Tralee Chronicle1843-1880
True Briton1801-1804
True Sun1832-1837
Union1857-1862
United Irishman1848-1848
Universe1846-1848
Vindicator (London)1859-1859
Warrington Examiner1869-1878
Warrington Examiner1885-1879
Watchman1827-1828
Waterford Chronicle1827-1875
Waterford News1848-1869
Week’s News (London)1871-1879
Weekly Chronicle (London)1836-1867
Weekly Gazette, Incumbered Estates Record & National Advertiser (Dublin, Ireland)1854-1855
Weekly Globe1824-1825
Weekly Intelligence1818-1818
Weekly Mail (London)1858-1860
Weekly Scotsman1879-1880
Weekly Star and Bell’s News1857-1857
Weekly Times (London)1826-1829, 1830-1833
Weekly True Sun1833-1843
West End News1859-1860
West London Times1860-1867
West Londoner1870-1872
Westminster Journal and Old British Spy1805-1810
Westminster Times1863-1866
Weymouth Telegram1862-1878
Whitehall Evening Post1801-1801
Widnes Examiner1876-1879
Wolverhampton Times and Bilston, Willenhall, Wednesfield, and Sedgley Journal1874-1876
Wooler’s British Gazette1819-1823
Workman’s Advocate (Merthyr Tydfil)1873-1875
World and Fashionable Sunday Chronicle1818-1818
Wrexhamite and Denbighshire and Flintshire Reporter1865-1865
Y Gwyliedydd1877-1880
Y Llan1870-1880
Y Tyst1877-1880

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Manx Newspapers and Publications (1792–1960)

Calf of Man Bird Observatory Report (1960-2011)
Camp Echo (First World War Internment Camp newspaper, 1914-1916)
Camp Humor (First World War Internment Camp newspaper, 1917)
Camp Zeitung (First World War Internment Camp newspaper, 1917)
Castletown Gazette (1952-1953)
Das Schleierlicht (First World War Internment Camp newspaper, 1916)
German Gymnastics Association (First World War Internment Camp newspaper, 1917)
Green Final (1924-1960)
Holiday News (1957-1960)
Isle of Man Daily Times (1958-1960)
Isle of Man Examiner (1880-1960)
Isle of Man Times (1847-1960)
Isle of Man Weekly Advertising Circular (1849-1884)
Isle of Man Weekly Gazette (1812-1824)
Journal of the Manx Museum (1924-1980)
Lager Echo (First World War Internment Camp newspaper, 1916-1918)
Lager Laterne (First World War Internment Camp newspaper, 1916-1917)
Lager Zeitung (First World War Internment Camp newspaper, 1916-1918)
Lager-Ulk (First World War Internment Camp newspaper, 1917)
Manks Advertiser (1801-1845)
Manks Mercury (1792-1795)
Manx Cat (1847-1848)
Manx Free Press (1923-1930)
Manx Liberal (1836-1850)
Manx Museum & National Trust Report (1905-2008)
Manx Patriot (1824-1825)
Manx Rising Sun (1824-1827)
Manx Star (1928-1930)
Manx Sun (1827-1906)
Manxman (1842-1900)
Mona Daily Programme (1876)
Mona’s Herald (1833-1960)
Peel City Guardian (1885-1960)
Peel Sentinel (1904-1905)
Quousque Tandem (First World War Internment Camp newspaper, 1915)
Ramsey Chronicle (1924-1927)
Ramsey Courier (1885-1960)
Ramsey Weekly News (1895-1904)
Rising Sun (1821-1824)
TT Special (1930-1960)
Unter Uns (First World War Internment Camp newspaper, 1917)
Werden (First World War Internment Camp newspaper, 1915)