Newspaper Collections
Northern English Newspapers 1711-2003 from the British Newspaper Archive
167 newspaper titles from the British Library’s world-famous British Newspaper Archive collection offer insight into the North of England, its history, and how its population responded to sweeping change - the transformation of the region from an agrarian and pre-industrial landscape, through the Industrial Revolution, to the emergence of the welfare state and de-industrialisation.
Coverage dates
1711-2003
Newspaper titles
167
Newspaper pages
3,482,531
Source
The British Library
About this collection
This collection spans the North of England, from the maritime cities to the rural hinterland, the Pennines and the Lake District. It captures extraordinary changes through tumultuous years. These newspapers chart important historical processes: the growth of literacy with the development of national education, increased politicisation with the advent of trade unions, and universal suffrage. The region's change in position from being the centre of heavy industry to experiencing post-industrial destitution is also reflected. These newspapers echo key political, cultural and social phenomena and offer insight into how communities responded to and reflected such developments. Interrogate these sources and achieve powerful analytical conclusions with the Social History Archive's unparalleled search tool.
The British Library
The British Library stores the world's largest collection of British and Irish newspapers. DC Thomson - the owners of the Social History Archive - are the British Library's digital publishing partners and have been creating the world-famous British Newspaper Archive for over a decade. The Social History Archive is delighted to make these newspapers available to the higher education community.
Newspaper series
| Title | Years covered | Publication place |
|---|---|---|
Alnwick Mercury 20,943 pages | 1884-1885,1889,1909,1912,1939,1950,1965-1968,1993-1997,1999-2002 | Alnwick, Northumberland |
Alston Herald and East Cumberland Advertiser 832 pages | 1875,1877,1879-1880 | Alston, Cumberland |
Altrincham, Bowdon & Hale Guardian 13,088 pages | 1871,1874-1887,1893-1894,1898 | Altrincham, Cheshire |
Ashton Reporter 4,946 pages | 1855-1871 | Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire |
Ashton Standard 3,822 pages | 1858-1861,1865,1877,1879,1889,1896-1897 | Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire |
Athletic News 24,086 pages | 1875-1896,1899-1913,1921-1931 | Manchester, Lancashire |
Barnoldswick & Earby Times 8,970 pages | 1940-1955,1986 | Barnoldswick, Yorkshire |
Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser 17,156 pages | 1863-1873,1875-1891,1911-1914 | Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire |
Ben Brierley's Journal 13,820 pages | 1874-1891 | Manchester, Lancashire |
Berwick Advertiser 40,708 pages | 1830,1834,1838,1840,1862-1863,1870-1871,1873-1892,1897,1904-1905,1908-1911,1914-1917,1919-1959,1988,1993-1998,2000 | Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland |
Berwickshire News and General Advertiser 26,976 pages | 1870-1872,1875-1879,1881-1882,1889,1892,1901-1956 | Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland |
Blackburn Standard 18,072 pages | 1835-1840,1845-1869,1872-1873,1875-1900 | Blackburn, Lancashire |
Blackburn Times 6,894 pages | 1860,1862-1865,1876-1877,1882-1883,1888-1889,1913,1920,1929,1933 | Blackburn, Lancashire |
Blackpool Gazette & Herald 29,552 pages | 1874-1886,1888-1897,1899-1919,1950 | Blackpool, Lancashire |
Blackpool Times 4,894 pages | 1901-1902,1904,1918-1919,1933 | Blackpool, Lancashire |
Blaydon Courier 416 pages | 1929 | Blaydon, Durham |
Blyth News 44,218 pages | 1874-1950,1974-1982 | Blyth, Northumberland |
Blyth News Post Leader 74,361 pages | 1987-1996,1998-2002 | Blyth, Northumberland |
Bolton Advertiser 48 pages | 1889 | Bolton, Lancashire |
Bolton Chronicle 12,224 pages | 1835-1860,1862-1866,1868-1871 | Bolton, Lancashire |
Bolton Evening News 66,771 pages | 1868-1886,1889-1891,1893,1895-1910,1912-1916 | Bolton, Lancashire |
Bolton Free Press 2,402 pages | 1835-1847 | Bolton, Lancashire |
Bolton Journal & Guardian 5,294 pages | 1876-1877,1879-1880,1889,1897,1899,1910,1916-1918 | Bolton, Lancashire |
Burnley Advertiser 5,976 pages | 1853-1880 | Burnley, Lancashire |
Burnley Express 48,455 pages | 1905-1954 | Burnley, Lancashire |
Burnley Gazette 27,252 pages | 1863-1883,1885-1891,1893-1897,1899-1914 | Burnley, Lancashire |
Burnley News 21,046 pages | 1912-1932 | Burnley, Lancashire |
Bury Times 5,828 pages | 1855-1857,1869,1871-1872,1877,1880,1885,1907-1909 | Bury, Lancashire |
Carlisle Examiner and North Western Advertiser 6,528 pages | 1857-1870 | Carlisle, Cumberland |
Carlisle Express and Examiner 8,736 pages | 1870,1872-1876,1878-1879,1881-1887,1890-1895 | Carlisle, Cumberland |
Carlisle Journal 28,619 pages | 1801-1805,1810-1811,1814-1815,1818-1820,1867,1870,1877-1878,1881-1914 | Carlisle, Cumberland |
Carlisle Patriot 18,709 pages | 1816-1873,1877,1885-1887,1889-1891,1895,1897 | Carlisle, Cumberland |
Cheshire Daily Echo 3,720 pages | 1901,1903-1904 | Stockport, Cheshire |
Chester Courant 38,244 pages | 1747,1755,1757-1758,1760-1761,1763,1766-1806,1809-1829,1831-1871,1873-1900 | Chester, Cheshire |
Chester-le-Street Chronicle and District Advertiser 6,944 pages | 1913-1923,1929-1940 | Chester-le-Street, Durham |
Chorley Guardian 3,954 pages | 1871-1874,1988 | Chorley, Lancashire |
Chorley Standard and District Advertiser 1,736 pages | 1875-1877,1880,1883,1885-1886 | Chorley, Lancashire |
Clitheroe Advertiser and Times 16,052 pages | 1900,1908,1917-1918,1933,1936-1960,1988,1990 | Clitheroe, Lancashire |
Congleton & Macclesfield Mercury, and Cheshire General Advertiser 10,514 pages | 1858-1872,1884-1895 | Congleton, Cheshire |
Consett Guardian 21,170 pages | 1860-1896,1899-1900,1908,1914-1929 | Consett, Durham |
Cotton Factory Times 13,520 pages | 1885-1889,1891-1920 | Manchester, Lancashire |
Crewe Guardian 32,708 pages | 1869-1897,1899-1910,1912-1913 | Crewe, Cheshire |
Cricket and Football Field 3,866 pages | 1886-1889,1892-1893,1908,1910 | Bolton, Lancashire |
Cumberland & Westmorland Herald 19,459 pages | 1869-1895,1897-1917 | Penrith, Cumberland |
Cumberland Pacquet, and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser 24,818 pages | 1777-1783,1785-1808,1811-1872,1874,1877,1889-1893,1895-1896 | Whitehaven, Cumberland |
Cumberland and Westmorland Advertiser, and Penrith Literary Chronicle 3,584 pages | 1855-1856,1858-1859,1861-1874 | Penrith, Cumberland |
Daily Citizen (Manchester) 5,688 pages | 1912-1915 | Manchester, Lancashire |
Daily Dispatch (Manchester) 1,268 pages | 1945 | Manchester, Lancashire |
Darlington & Richmond Herald 5,028 pages | 1867-1880 | Darlington, Durham |
Darlington & Stockton Times, Ripon & Richmond Chronicle 5,544 pages | 1847-1854,1856,1858,1863,1877,1880,1889,1894,1896,1911 | Darlington, Durham |
Denton and Haughton Examiner 7,358 pages | 1873-1892 | Denton, Lancashire |
Durham Chronicle 15,472 pages | 1824-1831,1834-1863,1868,1888,1897-1898,1903,1908,1911,1916 | Durham, Durham |
Durham County Advertiser 34,687 pages | 1814-1870,1872-1887,1889-1910,1914-1917 | Durham, Durham |
Empire News & The Umpire 13,834 pages | 1884-1895,1897-1911 | Manchester, Lancashire |
English Lakes Visitor 12,378 pages | 1877-1888,1890-1895,1897-1908,1910 | Keswick, Cumberland |
Farnworth Chronicle 7,572 pages | 1906-1917 | Farnworth, Lancashire |
Fleetwood Chronicle 50,992 pages | 1845-1849,1851-1873,1875-1877,1888-1955 | Fleetwood, Lancashire |
Fleetwood Express 19,882 pages | 1889,1896-1920 | Fleetwood, Lancashire |
Fleetwood Weekly News 26,936 pages | 1986-2002 | Fleetwood, Lancashire |
Football Echo (Sunderland) 140 pages | 1956 | Sunderland, Durham |
Football Gazette (South Shields) 7,294 pages | 1906-1915,1919-1939,1946-1959 | South Shields, Durham |
Gateshead Observer 14,320 pages | 1837-1886 | Gateshead, Durham |
Gore's Liverpool General Advertiser 9,818 pages | 1795,1800,1805,1822-1823,1826-1841,1843-1853,1855,1857-1860,1863-1865,1867-1876 | Liverpool, Lancashire |
Hartlepool Free Press and General Advertiser 208 pages | 1860 | Hartlepool, Durham |
Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail 245,353 pages | 1878,1899-1954,1956-1959,1964-1965,1982-1989,1993-1995 | Hartlepool, Durham |
Haslingden Gazette 10,458 pages | 1901-1926 | Haslingden, Lancashire |
Hexham Courant 2,684 pages | 1864,1877,1879,1889,1897,1906-1907 | Hexham, Northumberland |
Horwich Chronicle 414 pages | 1889 | Horwich, Lancashire |
Hyde & Glossop Weekly News, and North Cheshire Herald 6,600 pages | 1860-1882 | Hyde, Cheshire |
Illustrated Berwick Journal 4,964 pages | 1855-1872 | Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland |
Jarrow Express 18,068 pages | 1873-1920 | Jarrow, Durham |
Jarrow Guardian and Tyneside Reporter 5,174 pages | 1872-1880,1898,1909-1910 | Jarrow, Durham |
Kendal Mercury 14,339 pages | 1834-1871,1873-1880 | Kendal, Westmorland |
Lakes Chronicle and Reporter 11,058 pages | 1875-1895,1898-1910 | Windermere, Westmorland |
Lakes Herald 13,678 pages | 1880-1916 | Ambleside, Westmorland |
Lancashire Evening Post 120,688 pages | 1886-1926,1929-1935,1937-1947,1953-1958 | Preston, Lancashire |
Lancaster Gazette 32,955 pages | 1801-1836,1838,1841-1848,1850-1894 | Lancaster, Lancashire |
Lancaster Guardian 17,310 pages | 1855,1857,1860-1862,1866,1869,1877,1880,1889,1894,1910,1919-1920,1924,1937-1939,1941-1956 | Lancaster, Lancashire |
Lancaster Herald and Town and County Advertiser 824 pages | 1831-1832 | Lancaster, Lancashire |
Lancaster Observer and Morecambe Chronicle 1,040 pages | 1865,1889,1919 | Lancaster, Lancashire |
Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser 6,860 pages | 1893-1909 | Lancaster, Lancashire |
Leigh Chronicle and Weekly District Advertiser 20,448 pages | 1856-1862,1864-1872,1877-1879,1881-1896,1898-1914 | Leigh, Lancashire |
Leigh Journal and Times 2,516 pages | 1877,1879,1885,1888-1889,1898 | Leigh, Lancashire |
Liverpool Albion 41,476 pages | 1827-1872,1874-1882 | Liverpool, Lancashire |
Liverpool Chronicle 1767 464 pages | 1767-1768 | Liverpool, Lancashire |
Liverpool Courier and Commercial Advertiser 16,770 pages | 1870,1889,1892,1897,1909-1910 | Liverpool, Lancashire |
Liverpool Journal of Commerce 207,636 pages | 1861-1940 | Liverpool, Lancashire |
Liverpool Mail 21,686 pages | 1836-1837,1839-1858,1860-1868,1870-1875,1877-1878,1880 | Liverpool, Lancashire |
Liverpool Mercantile Gazette and Myers's Weekly Advertiser 10,080 pages | 1822,1825-1843,1845-1873,1875 | Liverpool, Lancashire |
Liverpool Shipping Telegraph and Daily Commercial Advertiser 61,052 pages | 1846-1872,1874-1876,1880,1885-1897,1899 | Liverpool, Lancashire |
Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser 16,996 pages | 1832-1856 | Liverpool, Lancashire |
Liverpool Telegraph 540 pages | 1836-1838 | Liverpool, Lancashire |
Liverpool Weekly Courier 13,182 pages | 1867-1869,1872-1890,1892-1893,1895,1897-1903 | Liverpool, Lancashire |
Manchester & Salford Advertiser 2,976 pages | 1837-1840,1842-1845,1847-1848 | Manchester, Lancashire |
Manchester City News 3,946 pages | 1901-1904,1906,1910,1914,1937 | Manchester, Lancashire |
Manchester Daily Examiner & Times 18,614 pages | 1856-1857,1861-1862,1872,1874-1877,1889,1893-1894 | Manchester, Lancashire |
Manchester Examiner 1,784 pages | 1846-1848 | Manchester, Lancashire |
Manchester Guardian 1,402 pages | 1821-1828 | Manchester, Lancashire |
Manchester Times 32,976 pages | 1828-1829,1831-1872,1874-1895,1898-1900,1906 | Manchester, Lancashire |
Maryport Advertiser 16,718 pages | 1853,1862-1864,1866-1895,1897-1905 | Maryport, Cumberland |
Middleton Albion 8,332 pages | 1857-1867,1869-1895 | Middleton, Lancashire |
Millom Gazette 13,432 pages | 1892-1933 | Millom, Cumberland |
Morecambe Guardian 19,002 pages | 1922,1924,1927-1935,1938-1940,1946,1948-1949,1951-1953,1955-1960,1996 | Morecambe, Lancashire |
Morecambe Visitor 76,706 pages | 1900,1912,1917,1952-1954,1956-1975,1987-1992,1995-1997,1999-2002 | Morecambe, Lancashire |
Morpeth Herald 36,093 pages | 1905-1909,1911-1920,1928-1940,1949-1970,1985,1993-2001 | Morpeth, Northumberland |
Nantwich Guardian 21,100 pages | 1871,1878-1887,1889-1896,1899-1900,1914-1918,1959 | Nantwich, Cheshire |
Nantwich, Sandbach & Crewe Star 1,018 pages | 1888-1892 | Nantwich, Cheshire |
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer and Clitheroe Division News 5,522 pages | 1890-1895,1897-1904 | Nelson, Lancashire |
Nelson Leader 29,618 pages | 1908,1911,1916,1918,1920-1922,1924-1926,1928-1929,1931-1951,1953-1959,1970,1976,1986 | Nelson, Lancashire |
Newcastle Courant 48,130 pages | 1710-1718,1720-1801,1803,1805-1807,1819-1822,1824-1874,1877-1879,1881-1885,1887-1893,1895-1896,1898-1900 | Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland |
Newton and Earlestown Guardian 8,708 pages | 1914-1919,1923,1931-1945,1952 | Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire |
North & South Shields Gazette and Northumberland and Durham Advertiser 6,255 pages | 1849-1863 | South Shields, Durham |
North Cumberland Reformer 2,392 pages | 1890-1891,1893-1896,1898 | Carlisle, Cumberland |
North West Evening Mail 1,282 pages | 1911 | Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire |
Northern Daily Telegraph 22,324 pages | 1889,1892-1893,1898,1900,1903-1904,1906,1909-1912,1914 | Blackburn, Lancashire |
Northern Daily Times 14,534 pages | 1853-1861 | Liverpool, Lancashire |
Northern Echo 40,381 pages | 1870,1872-1897,1899-1900,1911-1912 | Darlington, Durham |
Northern Guardian (Hartlepool) 11,996 pages | 1891-1902 | Hartlepool, Durham |
Northern Liberator 1,948 pages | 1837-1840 | Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland |
Northern Weekly Gazette 59,372 pages | 1860-1863,1865,1868-1896,1898-1932 | Stockton-on-Tees, Durham |
Northwich Guardian 37,362 pages | 1861-1910,1912-1913 | Northwich, Cheshire |
Penrith Observer 43,468 pages | 1860-1878,1880-1960 | Penrith, Cumberland |
Prescot Reporter 3,232 pages | 1873-1875,1879,1883,1889,1939 | Prescot, Lancashire |
Preston Chronicle 22,363 pages | 1831-1885,1887,1889-1893 | Preston, Lancashire |
Preston Herald 43,428 pages | 1861,1863-1877,1882-1896,1899-1909,1911-1918 | Preston, Lancashire |
Preston Pilot 1,048 pages | 1842,1877,1879 | Preston, Lancashire |
Rochdale Pilot, and General Advertiser 108 pages | 1858 | Rochdale, Lancashire |
Rochdale Times 17,290 pages | 1872-1879,1889,1896,1898-1899,1910-1923 | Rochdale, Lancashire |
Runcorn Examiner 17,334 pages | 1870,1873-1881,1883-1895,1898,1900-1909,1911-1920 | Runcorn, Cheshire |
Shields Daily Gazette 114,982 pages | 1905-1918,1920-1945,1953-1955,1988,1993-1995 | South Shields, Durham |
Shields Daily News 154,196 pages | 1864-1868,1870,1873-1877,1879-1925,1927-1936,1938-1959 | Tynemouth, Northumberland |
Soulby's Ulverston Advertiser and General Intelligencer 24,188 pages | 1848-1890,1892-1909,1912-1914 | Ulverston, Lancashire |
South Durham & Cleveland Mercury 1,902 pages | 1869-1870,1877,1889 | Hartlepool, Durham |
Southport Guardian 3,516 pages | 1901,1906,1921 | Southport, Lancashire |
Southport Independent and Ormskirk Chronicle 620 pages | 1866,1870 | Southport, Lancashire |
Sporting Chronicle 15,932 pages | 1874,1876-1877,1879-1880,1888-1889,1891,1897,1902,1904-1905,1907-1908,1916,1921 | Manchester, Lancashire |
St. Helens Examiner 17,316 pages | 1880-1896,1898-1910,1912-1920 | St Helens, Lancashire |
St. Helens Newspaper & Advertiser 2,878 pages | 1902-1903,1916,1918-1919 | St Helens, Lancashire |
Stalybridge Examiner 60 pages | 1876 | Stalybridge, Lancashire |
Stalybridge Reporter 18,543 pages | 1874-1896,1898-1917 | Stalybridge, Lancashire |
Stockton Examiner and South Durham and North Yorkshire Herald 688 pages | 1878-1879 | Stockton-on-Tees, Durham |
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser 21,024 pages | 1858-1866,1868-1876,1879-1918 | Stockton-on-Tees, Durham |
Stretford and Urmston Examiner 264 pages | 1879-1880 | Stretford, Lancashire |
Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette 170,927 pages | 1905-1929,1931-1943,1945-1954,1988-1989,1993-1994 | Sunderland, Durham |
Teesdale Mercury 4,516 pages | 1855-1870 | Barnard Castle, Durham |
Tyne Mercury; Northumberland and Durham and Cumberland Gazette 3,870 pages | 1802-1808,1815-1822,1825-1828 | Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland |
Ulverston Mirror and Furness Reflector 10,840 pages | 1860-1885 | Ulverston, Lancashire |
Warrington Advertiser 1,258 pages | 1865, 1877, 1879, 1884, 1887, 1889 | Warrington, Lancashire |
Warrington Daily Guardian 1,046 pages | 1891,1897 | Warrington, Lancashire |
Warrington Evening Post 2,024 pages | 1877,1879 | Warrington, Lancashire |
Warrington Examiner 12,462 pages | 1869-1881,1883-1895,1899-1909 | Warrington, Lancashire |
Warrington Guardian 4,650 pages | 1859,1865,1873,1877,1888-1889,1903 | Warrington, Lancashire |
Warrington Observer 152 pages | 1889 | Warrington, Lancashire |
Warrington Standard and Lancashire and Cheshire Advertiser 222 pages | 1859 | Warrington, Lancashire |
Warrington Times 82 pages | 1859 | Warrington, Lancashire |
Weekly Journal (Hartlepool) 7,072 pages | 1901-1909 | Hartlepool, Durham |
West Cumberland Times 21,894 pages | 1874-1875,1877-1891,1893-1897,1899-1914 | Cockermouth, Cumberland |
Westmorland Advertiser and Kendal Chronicle 4,304 pages | 1811-1826,1832-1833 | Kendal, Westmorland |
Westmorland Gazette 3,787 pages | 1871-1872,1877,1879,1889-1890,1898,1905,1909 | Kendal, Westmorland |
Whitehaven Advertiser and Cleator Moor and Egremont Observer 406 pages | 1918 | Whitehaven, Cumberland |
Whitehaven News 4,526 pages | 1857-1867,1869-1873 | Whitehaven, Cumberland |
Widnes Examiner 18,760 pages | 1876-1920 | Widnes, Lancashire |
Wigan Observer and District Advertiser 102,327 pages | 1855-1895,1898-1918,1986,1988-1993,1995-2003 | Wigan, Lancashire |
Wigton Advertiser 24,036 pages | 1857-1868,1870-1940 | Wigton, Cumberland |
Winsford & Middlewich Guardian 29,784 pages | 1875-1911 | Winsford, Cheshire |
Women's Gazette & Weekly News 958 pages | 1888-1889 | Manchester, Lancashire |
Workington Star 8,662 pages | 1888-1910,1912-1914 | Workington, Cumberland |