Swansea University staff and students have free access to the newspaper archives below in addition to sites available anywhere on the Internet. There are links to all the newspaper resources we subscribe to (in addition to some free web resources) in iFind. Click on the Subject Resources tab to see a full listing of the news and newspaper resources we subscribe to.
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The Times Archive provides the entire Times newspaper, from its beginning in 1785 up to 2019, including articles, photographs, letters and advertisements.
The Mirror Historical Archive provides access to the full text (full page facsimiles) of the Mirror and Sunday Mirror from 1903 to 2000.
The UKPressOnline site provides access to the full text of the Daily Express from 1900 to the present. It also includes the Sunday Express, Daily Star and Star Sunday. Full page facsimiles are provided so each issue can be viewed as it would have originally appeared (complete with photos, pictures, adverts etc.).
The 19th Century British Library Newspapers collection contains full runs of 70 newspapers selected by the British Library to represent nineteenth century Britain. It includes national and regional newspapers and can be particularly useful if you are researching local or family history.
The Cambrian Index database contains hundreds of thousands of entries from newspapers relating to people and events.