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
- Searchable Archive
Other Collections
Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition
- 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)
- Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890)
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)
The Foxearth and District Local History Society Newspaper Archive 1745-1950
- Ipswich Journal
- Bury and Suffolk Herald
- Bury & Norwich post
- Norfolk Chronicle
- Suffolk and Essex Free Press
- South-West Suffolk Echo
- Sudbury Post & Long Melford Gazette
- Haverhill Echo
Georgian and Early Victorian Regional Newspapers
- The Devizes & Wiltshire Gazette
- The Salisbury And Winchester Journal
- The Marlborough Journal
- The Hampshire Chronicle and Courier
- The Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle
- The Sussex Weekly Advertiser
- The Leeds Intelligencer
- The Sheffield and Rotherham Independent
- The Yorkshire Gazette
- The Northampton Mercury
- The Gloucester Journal
- The Norwich Mercury
- The Norwich Mercury And Yarmouth, Lynn, and Ipswich Herald
- The Hereford Journal
- Salopian Journal
- Mist’s Weekly Journal
- Berrow’s Worcester Journal
- The Daily Courant
- The Country Journal or the Craftsman
- The Craftsman; or Says’s Weekly Journal
- The London Morning Penny Post
- The Pilot
- The Daily Post Boy
- The London Gazette
- The Ipswich Journal
- The Colchester Gazette
- Caledonian Mercury
- The Shrewsbury Chronicle
- The St.James’s Chronicle
- The London Evening Post
- The Whitehall Evening Post
- The Hue and CryandPolice Gazette
- The Windsor and Eton Express
- The Bath Advertiser
- The Bath Chronicle and Weekly Advertiser
- R.Cruttwell’s Bath and Bristol Chronicle
- Boddely’s Bath Journal
- Bonner and Middleton’s Bristol Journal
- Sarah Farley’s Bristol Journal
- The Bath Journal
- Burniston’s Northern Luminary
- The Dublin Journal
- The Dublin Evening Post
- The Dublin News-Letter
- Supplement to the Warder
- The Kilkenny Moderator
- The Freeman’s Journal
- The Belfast News Letter
- The Yorkshire Post
- The Leeds Times
- The Leeds & West Riding Express
- The Public Gazetteer
- Whitehall
- The Weekly Journal
- The British Apollo
- The Post Boy
- The Post Man
- Mercurius Pragmaticus
- General Evening Post
- The London Daily Post
- The TATLER
- The Flying Post
- The Man in the Moon
- The Observator
- The Spectator
- The Penny London Morning Advertiser
- The Weekly Chronicle
- The Morning Herald
- The Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser
- The Bolton Chronicle
- The Farnworth Observer
- The Farnworth News
- The Farnworth Journal
- The Bolton Express
- The Bolton Guardian
- The Bolton Daily Chronicle
- The Bolton Evening News
- The Bolton Journal and Guardian
- The Manchester Courier
- Wheelers Manchester Chronicle
- The Manchester Mercury
- The Reading Mercury
- The Bolton Literary Journal
- The Manchester Guardian
- The Manchester and Salford Advertiser
- The British Volunteer and Manchester Weekly Express
- The Staffordshire Advertiser
- Baldwin’s London Weekly Journal
- Jopson’s Coventry Mercury
- Pue’s Occurences
- Saunder’s News Letter
- Galway Independent Paper
- The Patriot
- Lloyd’s Evening Post
- British Spy
- Kentish Post
- Commonsense
- Creswell’s Nottingham Journal
- The Times (extracts for One Name Study)
- The Berkshire Chronicle (extracts for One Name Study)
- Jackson’s Oxford Journal (extracts for One Name Study)
- Glasgow Herald (extract for One Name Study)
- Pall Mall Gazette (extract for One Name Study)
- Daily News (extracts for One Name Study)
- Bristol Mercury (extract for One Name Study)
- Reynolds Newspaper(extracts for One Name Study)
- Leicester and Nottingham Journal(half pages)
- Aris’s Birmingham Gazette
- Searchable Archive
- Scotland
- Evening Times
- The Glasgow Advertiser
- The Glasgow Herald
- The Edinburgh Advertiser
- The Edinburgh Chronicle
- Edinburgh Courant
- The Edinburgh Evening Courant
- Edinburgh Weekly Journal
- Herald and Advertiser 1802-1805 (Glasgow)
- England
- Common Cause 1909-1920
- Courrier de Londres 1803-1804 (London)
- Daily Mirror 1953
- Globe
- Votes for Women 1907-1916
Cumberland and Westmorland Newspaper Transcriptions
Miscellaneous Titles
- England – AJR Journal Archive
- England – Illustrated London News 1842-2003
- England – Old Merseytimes
- England – Teesdale Mercury (1855–2005)
- England – The Gazette Archive
- Northern Ireland – Belfast Newsletter (1737–1800)
- Scotland – Glasgow Guardian Digital Archive
Subscription Databases
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
