Research Guides: History Resources: International Newspapers

International Newspapers

Large Global News and Newspaper Collections

Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
Newspapers, books, manuscripts, maps, and photographs. Simultaneously search: 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers, 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, Sunday Times (London), Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), Making of the Modern World, Times Literary Supplement, and Times Digital Archive, Financial Times (London).

Global Press Archive
Includes Open Access International archival newspaper collections and purchased newspapers archival collections from East View.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Historical access to the following newspapers: Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta Daily World, The Baltimore Afro-American, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Defender, The Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cleveland Call & Post, The Commercial Appeal, Detroit Free Press, The Globe and Mail, Hartford Courant, The Jerusalem Post, The Jewish Advocate, The Jewish Exponent, Korea Times, Knoxville News Sentinel, Leftist Newspapers, Los Angeles Sentinel, Los Angeles Times, Louisville Courier Journal, Michigan Chronicle, New York Amsterdam News, The New York Times, New York Tribune, Norfolk Journal & Guide, The Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier, San Francisco Chronicle, South China Morning Post, St. Louis Post Dispatch, The Tennessean, The Times of India, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
ProQuest News and Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Direct link to the newspaper section of ProQuest. Includes Alt-Press Watch, Ethnic NewsWatch, GenderWatch, Latin American Newsstand, Canadian Newsstand Complete, ProQuest Newsstand, ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Times of London, and The Tennessean.
World Newspaper Archive This link opens in a new window
Historical newspapers from North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa and South Asia. (note: North American section includes Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and the US.)

Access Note: Vanderbilt and CRL member institutions. Coverage: 18th - 20th centuries.
Access World News Research Collection This link opens in a new window
Includes international newspaper and other internationally-based news coverage.
Factiva This link opens in a new window
Business magazines, trade publications, and newspapers; includes the Wall Street Journal.
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Libguide for Factiva
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports This link opens in a new window
FBIS Daily Reports issued by the U.S. Government, includes translations of broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the world. Current coverage includes 1941-1996.

International Coalition on Newspapers
The International Coalition on Newspapers (ICON) provides a freely accessible database of bibliographic information for over 170,000 newspaper titles from the US, Canada, and 159 other countries.

Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) This link opens in a new window
News and newspaper stories, federal and state court cases, US law reviews and journals, company profiles and directories. Company Dossier; data on public figures.
Access Note: Personal account required for some functionality.
World News Connection This link opens in a new window
Archive of foreign news translated into English. Newspaper articles, television and radio broadcasts, online sources, conference proceedings, periodicals, and non-classified reports.
Coverage: 1995 - 2013.
World News Digest This link opens in a new window
Archival record of domestic and international news covering all major political, social, and economic events since November 1940. Facts on File.
Coverage: 1940 to present.

Regional and Single Title Newspaper Collections

17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers This link opens in a new window
English news media from the 17th and 18th centuries: newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817).
17th and 18th Century Nichols Newspapers Collection This link opens in a new window
London newspapers and pamphlets gathered by antiquarian and printer John Nichols. This collection, sourced from the Bodleian Library, complements the titles and issues found in the 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers database.

Al-Ahram Digital Archive
Major Egyptian Daily newspaper covering 1876-2020
Argumenty i fakty Digital Archive (Global Press Archive)
Argumenty i fakty (Аргументы и факты, Arguments and Facts), a weekly newspaper based in Moscow, once had the largest circulation of any periodical in the world. Coverage 1983-2022.
Baghdad Observer
Official English-language newspaper of the Iraqi government, covering 1967-1992.

British Library Newspapers This link opens in a new window
National and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of British society.
Coverage: 1732-1950.
Caribbean Newspapers, Series 1, 1718-1876 This link opens in a new window
18th- and 19th-century newspapers from the Caribbean islands.
Coverage: 1718-1876.

El Caribe Digital Archive (Global Press Archive)
El Caribe is a Spanish-language daily newspaper published in Santo Domingo and is one of the Dominican Republic’s most influential and longest-running newspapers. Covering includes issues from 1956 to 2021.

Chinese Newspapers Collection This link opens in a new window
Historical newspapers providing first-hand accounts and coverage of politics, society and events.
Coverage: 1832-1953.

Daily Mail Historical Archive
Daily Mail Historical Archive 1896-2004.
Daily Observer Digital Archive (Liberia)
Coverage from 1981 to 2016. The Daily Observer is Liberia’s best-known, independent, national newspaper.
East African Newspapers (Global Press Archive)
Features the Daily Nation (Kenya), The Ethiopian Herald, and The Monitor (Uganda) newspapers covering the 1940s to the early 2000s.
Financial Times Historical Archive
Financial Times (London) Historical Archive, 1888-2010.
Frankfurter Allgemeine
Newspaper archive covers 1949 to 1992, and then to 1993 to current.
Illustrated London News
Coverage 1842-2003.
Independent (UK)
The Independent Digital Archive 1986-2016.
International Herald Tribune
International Herald Tribune Archive covering 1887-2013.
Imperial Russian Newspapers (Global Press Archive)
mperial Russian Newspapers collection comprises out-of-copyright newspapers spanning the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, up to the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.
Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers (Global Press Archive)
Comprising over 1,000 titles from Mexico’s pre-independence, independence and revolutionary periods (1807-1929), the newspapers in this collection provide rare documentation of the dramatic events of this era and include coverage of Mexican partisan politics, yellow press, political and social satire, as well as local, regional, national and international news.
Izvestiia Digital Archive (Global Press Archive)
Among the longest-running Russian newspapers, Izvestiia (Известия, News) was founded in March 1917. This archive covers 1917 to 2022.
Japan Times Digital Archive
Covers 1897-2023. English language title covering Japan.
Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers (Global Press Archive)
Includes 17 Chinese language newspapers covering 1911-1949. Part of the Global Press Archive of open-access newspapers.

Latin American Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Principal newspapers from most Latin American countries and many newspapers from Puerto Rico. Regional news, business, sports and the arts, regional wire services and magazines. In Spanish and/or Portuguese.
Coverage: 1991 to present.

Literaturnaia Gazeta Digital Archive (Global Press Archive)
Established on April 22, 1929 with the support of the “father of Soviet literature,” writer Maxim Gorky, Literaturnaia gazeta (Литературная газета, Literary Newspaper) is a landmark publication in Russia’s cultural heritage. This archive covers 1929 to 2022.
Middle East and North African Newspapers (Global Press Archive)
Newspapers from 1877 to early 20th century. Includes access to five in-copyright titles from the region: al-Akhbār (الاخبار, Lebanon, 2006-2019), al-Dustūr (الدستور, Jordan, 1967-2000), al-Jumhūrīyah (الجمهورية, Egypt, 1962-1986), al-Riyāḍ (الرياض, Saudi Arabia, 1972-1996), and Filasṭīn (فلسطين, Israel/Palestine, 1956-1967).
Le Monde Historical Archive
French daily, coverage 1944-2000.
Moscow News Digital Archive (Global Press Archive)
Moscow News (pub. 1930-2014) was the oldest English-language newspaper in Russia.
El Mundo Digital Archive (Global Press Archive)
Founded in 1919, El Mundo was a respected, conservative newspaper from Puerto Rico and was widely considered a key source for news until it ceased in 1990.
Neues Deutschland
Official organ of the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany). Coverage from 1946 to 2022.
Post-Perestroika Newspapers (Global Press Archive)
The Post-Perestroika Newspapers collection traces the evolution of post-Soviet Russia, with coverage beginning in the mid-1980s and extending well into the twenty-first century to 2022. Established soon before or soon after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the newspapers in this collection document the changes taking place in Russia
Pravda Digital Archive
Major Russian news source covering 1912-2019.
Prensa Libre Digital Archive
Newspaper from Guatemala covering 1951-2021.
Rauf Shimpo Digital Archive (Global Press Archive)
The Rafu Shimpo (羅府新報, L.A. Japanese Daily News) is the longest-running Japanese American newspaper in the United States. Coverage includes 1904 to 2022.
South Asian Newspapers (Global Press Archive)
The collection, which includes nine publications, covers several countries, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan), India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, and features multiple languages such as Bengali, Dari, English, Nepali, and more. With reportage dating as far back as the 1850s, the South Asian Newspapers collection provides a wealth of coverage and perspectives on major regional and global events of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Southeast Asian Newspapers (Global Press Archive)
Covering several countries from the region, the 129 publications include Myanmar (formerly Burma), Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, and featuring multiple languages such as Dutch, English, French, Javanese, Spanish, and Vietnamese, the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection incorporates a wealth of coverage and perspectives on major regional and global events of the late 19th and 20th centuries.
Soviet Era Ukrainian Newspapers
The Soviet-Era Ukrainian Newspapers collection includes the following five titles:

Borot’ba (Боротьба), Kyiv, in Ukrainian, 1919–1920
Dilo (Діло), Lviv, in Ukrainian, 1900–1939
Kievskaia mysl’ (Киевская мысль), Kyiv, in Russian, 1918–1918
Proletars’ka pravda (Пролетарська правда), Kyiv, in Ukrainian, 1924–1925
Visti VUTsVK (Вісті ВУЦВК), Kharkiv and Kyiv, in Ukrainian, 1922–1939

Sunday Times (London) This link opens in a new window
Full images of the pages of The Sunday Times (London).
Coverage: 1822-2006.
Times Digital Archive (London Times) This link opens in a new window
Full images of the pages of The Times (London) including advertising, book reviews, letters to the editor, and obituaries as well as news articles.
Coverage: 1785-2019
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive (TLS) This link opens in a new window
Weekly literary journal founded in 1902 as a supplement to The Sunday Times of London. Provides comprehensive coverage of the latest and most important scholarly publications, in every subject, in several languages. Also reviews current fiction, nonfiction, theatre, cinema, music and exhibitions. Widely considered the finest literary review in the English language, TLS sets the tone and standards for excellence in the field of literary criticism. Many distinguished writers have been contributors, including T. S. Eliot, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf.
Coverage: Begins 1902. Most recent 5 years not available.