News media
The British Library is home to the UK’s news collections
You'll find British and overseas newspapers dating back to the 1600s and we have have growing collections of radio, television and web news.
Format
Collection highlights
News media collections
British Newspaper Archive
Over 7.5 million searchable pages, from more than 200 newspaper titles from UK and Ireland
Thomason Tracts
A key source for the English Civil War in the mid-17th century
Burney Collection
Largest single collection of 17th- and 18th-century English newspapers available
Catalogues
Main Catalogue
Search, view and order from 57 million records, or search our website
Collection guides
Television and radio news
The Broadcast News service provides onsite access to recent television and radio news programmes
Newspapers
Newspapers published in the UK and Republic of Ireland, and many from elsewhere: over 34,000 titles, 60 million issues
Newsroom
The Newsroom opens on Mon 7 April. It is a new dedicated space in our St Pancras (London) building for newspapers, broadcast and web news. You can access microfilm and digital newspapers, with reference sources and expert help. The print newspapers will not be available until Autumn 2014.
You’ll need a Reader Pass to use it
Mon 10.00 – 20.00
Tue - Thu 09.30 – 20.00
Fri – Sat 09.30 – 17.00
Sun & English Public Holidays Closed
Featured
News media projects
Newspaper moves
The Newspaper Moves Programme safeguards the long-term future of the national newspaper collection
Case studies
Alex Hall
Using newspapers in research: Alex Hall, PhD student
Blog posts
Opening day
08 April 2014On Monday 7 April 2014, at 10:00, the Newsroom opened at the British Library. We were just about ready. I don't know what it is about we humans, but with all the months, indeed years, of planning that went into...
St Pancras Intelligencer no. 12
04 April 2014Welcome to the latest edition of the St Pancras Intelligencer, our weekly round-up of news about news - stories about news production, publications, apps, digitised resources, events and what is happening with the newspaper collection (and other news collections) at...
Taming the news beast
02 April 2014Taming the News Beast was the striking title of a seminar held on April 1st by ISKO UK, the British branch of the International Society for Knowledge Organization. Subtitled "finding context and value is text and data" its aim was...
St Pancras Intelligencer no. 11
28 March 2014Welcome to the latest edition of the St Pancras Intelligencer, our weekly round-up of news about news - stories about news production, publications, apps, digitised resources, events and what is happening with the newspaper collection (and other news collections) at...
See also
External links
The British Library is not responsible for the content of external Internet sites.
Organisations
Newspaper Licensing Agency
The collecting society for UK newspapers
Newspaper Publishers Association
The association for Britain's national news brands
Newspaper Society
Represents and promotes the interests of Britain's regional and local media
Resources
List of Newspapers
Directory of online newspapers worldwide
British Newspaper Archive
Digitised newspapers from the British Library
Projects
Europeana Newspapers
Three-year project (2012-15) to aggregate18 million historic newspaper pages for Europeana and The European Library
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W.T. Stead: Newspaper Revolutionary
W.T. Stead: Newspaper Revolutionary
Roger Luckhurst, Laurel Brake, James Mussell and Ed King
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