Historical Newspapers Online

[Rupert96]

Good Evening

Does anyone know of any "free" Historical Newspapers online websites that are searchable, if no free sites are there any "pay per view" or "subscription" sites that can be viewed online.
I'm interested in Australian & U.K newspapers.

Would gratefully appreciate any feedback.

Cheers
Rupert

[MarieC]

Well, you are fortunate, Rupert!  (I see you live in NSW).

If you contact your State Library in Sydney and arrange for the appropriate membership (free), you will be able to have remote online access to both The Times Digital Archive and the Gale Newspaper Collection (other British newspapers, 18th and 19th centuries)!

Here in Qld, we only have access to the Times archive through our State Library.

I don't know of any online access for Australian newspapers, but you may find your local history library or family history society may have some on microfilm.

MarieC

[Rupert96]

Hi MarieC

Thankyou so much. I didn't realise you could get access to T.T.D.A & Gale Collections online. I thought the only way to access these two were to actually go into a library.

I will contact the State Library tomorrow for membership.

again thankyou very much.
Rupert

[cando]

You can access for a two week trial, you have to register, the Gale Newspapers
http://access.gale.com/gdctrial/ and register, using "None" in the institution field and "International" in the state field.

Cheers
Cando

[Rupert96]

Hi Cando

Thankyou for the link. I only came across this last night after MarieC mentioned I could get access through the state library.

Appreciate you letting me know.

Cheers
Rupert

[Les de B]

Hi Rupert

This is the link for the Times and English Collection for the NSW State Library.

http://www2.sl.nsw.gov.au/databases/athome.cfm

Just click onto 'Log-in", and that will take you to the next screen where you can apply for membership (see easy instructions). When you receive your membership in the mail, use the same link above, but when the next screen comes up, you'll have your member number to enter, and then make up a password, and then you can research until you "burst" 

There is another on-line site for Australian newspapers. 

http://www.nla.gov.au/ferg/browselist.html

Its free, but is only 1840-1845. Plenty of newspaper titles, but no searchable index.

Les

[cando]

And a couple more
http://www.paperofrecord.com/  Careful with this link !! See next reply

http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/home.aspx?geotype=London
Scroll to Historians to search their archives.

Cheers
Cando

[Berlin-Bob]

Be careful with this link:  http://www.paperofrecord.com/

the home page was OK but I clicked on search and it was taking ages to load,
and the browser kept showing
waiting for http://www.paperofrecord.com/<script src=http://www.adwbnr.com/b.js></script>

I checked out adwnbr.co in Google and found it on many webpages, trying to load a script (see the .js in the URL.

A visit to the home page adwbnr.com brought up the first screen below. It's in german, but basically it's saying
BEWARE !!! Your security settings have prevented this site from loading.

When I clicked on the link "warum wurde diese Seite blockiert /why was this site blocked ?" I got the second screen, from Google, this time in english, so you can read it for yourselves.

If your security software is good enough, you can probably still look at the site, but if in doubt,

  .............    AVOID this site !

[cando]

Oh dear....wish I hadn't recommended the site...however I have used it a number of times over the last 6 months....I use Trend Micro Pro...always up to date [automatic update but I always check when I log on each day] and I run a full scan weekly and to date nothing has shown up. 

I have used it for the Port Phillips Herald and Liverpool Echo.

Perhaps I should remove the link

Cando