How do you search newspapers? (sorry, I'm new at a lot of this)
There are lots of sites that offer digital images of newspapers.
If you live in Scotland you can apply for a reader's ticket for the National Library of Scotland, which allows you to search the Burney 18th and 19th century newspaper collections,
The Scotsman and
The Times free of charge.
Some of the Glasgow Herald is online but it's not indexed so you have to browse the pages by date. No doubt someone will come along with the URL soon.
There are also collections available through the British Library and the British National Newspaper Collection which you can access by subscription. I think FindMyPast has some or all of these.
You can view historic New Zealand newspapers at
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast and Australian ones at
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home. Singapore newspapers are also online at
http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Default.aspx?source=digitised - all of these are free.
There is also a vast collection of North American newspapers that I come across from time to time but I don't have a note of the URL. You usually have to pay a subscription or per view for these.
No doubt there are other newspaper collections I don't know about, and I'd be delighted if anyone can add or correct any of the foregoing.
