Newspaper archives - list of resources (many free)

I love researching old newspapers. You can find out so much about the past from the articles, photographs, editorial cartoons and adverts that appear in old newspapers. Newspaper archives provide a window on the past.

If you would like to search old newspapers, your local public library would be a good place to start. They often provide free access to online newspaper archives that you would otherwise have to pay for. They may even have historic original  newspapers that you can search through.

One of my favourite online newspaper archives is probably Gallica. Gallica is a free archive of digitized books and newspapers provided by the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Here is a link to the newspaper section of Gallica: http://gallica.bnf.fr/html/und/presse-et-revues/presse-et-revues

Follow these links for information on accessing newspaper archives from around the world:

• Luke McKernan - http://lukemckernan.com/2016/07/17/found-online-2-newspaper-archives/

• Irish Genealogy Toolkit - http://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/irish-newspaper-archives.html

• National Library of Ireland - http://www.nli.ie/en/eresources.aspx