CGS: Postgraduate Library Support for Supervisors and Students: Newspapers

The Financial Times Historical Archive delivers the complete searchable run of one of the world’s most authoritative daily business newspapers. Every item printed in the paper, from 1888-2009, can be searched and browsed article by article and page by page.

Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 (U.S.) & international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for 389 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are also provided.

These historical newspapers provide genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

First published in 1785, The Times of London is widely considered to be the world's 'newspaper of record'. The Times Digital Archive allows users to search over 200 years of this invaluable historical source. Coverage from 1785-2009.

This collection provides access to more than 40 fully searchable African newspapers published between 1800 and 1922 featuring titles from Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. Languages include English, German, French, Portuguese, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Sotho, and others.