British Newspaper Archive

Over 3 million pages from newspapers across UK and Ireland with up to 40 million pages digitised over next 10 years. You can now search hundreds of millions of articles by keyword, name, location, date or title and watch your results appear in an instant.

Articles include:

• News Articles - read about national events, as well as issues of local and regional importance. News articles are your window into daily life in historical Britain.
  
  
• Family Notices - search for your family's birth, marriage and death notices plus related announcements including engagements, anniversaries, birthdays and congratulations.
  
  
• Letters - read letters to the editor written by the newspaper's readers, including illuminating contemporary debates, aspirations and anxieties.
  
  
• Obituaries - view a wealth of contemporary information on the lives of notable individuals and ancestors.
  
  
• Advertisements - these include classifieds, shipping notices and appointments..Illustrations - see photographs, engravings, graphics, maps and editorial cartoons.