Research guides: Primary Sources: European/worldwide: Magazine and news sources

Worldwide magazine and newspaper sources

ICON: International Coalition on Newspapers
Various newspaper digitization projects from around the world. Free and fee-based. A-Z list by country.
Coverage:: varies
European newspapers
Coverage: 1700s - present
Historical Jewish Press
Hebrew; French; English language papers.
Coverage: 1783 - 2014

Paper of Record
Archive of selected 19 and 20th century community newspapers from across Canada, the United States, and other countries.
Coverage: varies

British Pathé
Search for cinema newsreels, cinema magazines, and historic clips
Coverage: 1896 - 1978

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports
English translations and digests of news from around the world.
Coverage: 1941 - 1996
Apartheid: Global Perspectives, 1946-1996
English translations of news broadcasts and publications on the reaction to apartheid throughout the African continent and from around the world.
Coverage: 1946 - 1996
Nexis Uni
News, legal, and business sources from around the world, Find news, legislation, case law, statutes, company profiles, market & industry reports.
Coverage: 1970s - present
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English language magazines & newspaper sources

Nineteenth Century British Pamphlets
Nine pamphlet collections covering various socio-political themes in Britain including Anti-slavery, universal suffrage, criminal punishment, and more.
Coverage: 1545 - 1931
Wilson Anti-Slavery Collection; Hume Tracts; Bristol Selected Pamphlets; Cowen Tracts; Earl Grey Pamphlets; Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Knowsley Pamphlets; LSE Selected Pamphlets, and Selections of the University of Manchester covering the Irish Question, Free Trade, and women's suffrage.
Burney - 17th and 18th Century Newspaper Collection
The newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney. Represents the largest collection of 17th and 18th century English news media.
Coverage: 17th and 18th Century
The collection contains 700+ bound volumes of newspaper and news pamphlets that were published mostly in London. The collection also includes English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, the American colonies, Europe and India.

Irish Newspapers in Dublin Libraries
Located in the microroom, Porter's 1st floor [microfilm].
Coverage: 1685 - 1825
Internet Library of Early Journals
Coverage: 1730s - 1860s

Times Digital Archive
Search for news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements, historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements.
Coverage: 1785 - 2019

Current Digest of the Russian Press
English-language summaries of selected Soviet and Russian press materials.
Coverage: 1949 - 2010

The Economist Historical Archive
Coverage: 1843 - 2013
New Statesman and Nation
Coverage: 1913 - 2000
The Listener Historical Archive
BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) that reproduced radio and television programs.
Coverage: 1929 - 1991

Independent Voices: an Open Access Collection of an Alternative Press
Periodicals by feminists, student radicals, Indigenous peoples, anti-war activists, Black rights advocates, two spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, and asexual (2SLGBTQ+) activists, extreme right-wing press, and more.
Coverage: 1950s - present
World News in Indian Newspapers
Contains copies of three English language newspapers: The India Gazette (1782-1834); The Bengal Hurkaru and Chronicle (1822-1866); and The Bengal Times (1876-1908).
Coverage: 1782 - 1908

French language magazines & newspaper sources

La Presse
Coverage: 1836 - 1935
Journaux éphémères de 1848 - 1849
Over 76 short-lived revolutionary newspapers. [microfilm]
Coverage: 1848 - 1849
Le Figaro
Coverage: 1854 - 1942
Le Temps
Coverage: 1861 - 1937
L'Humanité
Published by the Communist Party of France.
Coverage: 1904 - 1939, 1944
Le Monde
Coverage: 1944 - present
Le Monde Diplomatique (Le Diplo)
1st floor Porter Library. [microfilm]
Coverage: 1954 - 1998
Selected digital issues of more recent years are available via the Library link above.

German language magazines & newspaper sources

ANNO
(AustriaN Newspapers Online)
Coverage 1689 - 1946
Weimar Studies Network: Digitized Periodicals
German language newspapers and literary, art, and religion journals.
Coverage: 1784 - 1945
ZEFYS Zeitungsinformationssystem
Germany and foreign newspapers in German.
Coverage: 1857 - 1939
März: Halbmonatschrift für deutsche Kultur
Munich, Germany. Porter 3rd floor call no. DD1 .M3. [print]
Coverage: 1907 - 1917
Der Angriff: Aufsätze aus der Kampfzeit
Articles by Joseph Goebbels which appeared in the NSDAP newspaper. [print]
Coverage: 1927 - 1930
DigiZeitschriften
Frankfurter Hefte: Zeitschrift für Kultur und Politik
Porter 3rd floor call no. AP30 .A555. [print]
Coverage: 1946 - 1984

Russian language magazines & newspaper sources

Russian Historical Sources
Find Russian-language government documents and periodicals most which are unavailable in any other format. Don't hesitate to ask Library staff for help getting started.[microcard]
Kolokol = Колокол
Request from the Annex.
Coverage: 1857 - 1867

Current Digest of the Russian Press
English-language summaries of selected Soviet and Russian press materials.
Coverage: 1949 - 2010

Pravda = Пра̑вда
Porter 1st floor call no. MIC S29. [microfilm]
Coverage: 1921 - 1938, 1956 - June 1991

Middle East and Asia news sources

World News in Indian Newspapers
Contains copies of three English language newspapers: The India Gazette (1782-1834); The Bengal Hurkaru and Chronicle (1822-1866); and The Bengal Times (1876-1908).
Coverage: 1782 - 1908

Historical Jewish Press
Filter by language, time period, and region of the world.
Coverage: 1783 - 1 year ago.
Jrayed – Arabic Newspaper Archive of Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine
Coverage: 1908 - 1999
Nashriyah: digital Iranian history
Scattered (partial) content. Focus:

The premiership of Mohammad Mossadegh and the August 1953 coup d'état against his government (1950-53)
The 1979 Revolution
The late 1990s/early 2000s era of President Mohammad Khatami.

Coverage: 1950s - early 2000s