Reverse has column: At the Sign of the Cinema with a picture of Mary Pickford and husband Douglas Fairbanksīasic Conditions: This is old paper which sometimes takes special care. These have not always been catalogued, but it is possible to discover them by accident.įor further tips on searching see our Discovery help pages.This is for the vintage page only, no other product comes with this listing. You can also find whole newspapers, newspaper articles and cuttings which have been inserted into The National Archives’ records. The National Archives may also hold records relevant to your research – try searching for keywords such as ‘newspaper’. Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records (SAPPHIRE).Where the keywords you searched for appear in the name of the institution or person that originally created the record (often not the same as the institution or person that currently holds the record), the search results are displayed under the ‘Record creators’ tab.Īrchives holding relevant records include: Where the keywords you searched for appear in the description of a record, the search results are displayed under the ‘Records’ tab. You can search for a journalist, business or other keyword and your search results will display details from a range of archives. Search Discovery, our catalogue, to find records from The National Archives and over 2,500 archives across the UK. Archival records relating to press history Search the Scoop! database ( £) to find out about British and Irish journalists, 1800-1960. Many books have been published on individual newspapers, journals and publishers. You can use The National Archives’ library catalogue to find more histories of the press. Mitchell’s newspaper press directory (1846-1907).Read all about it! A history of the British newspaper by Kevin Williams (Routledge, 2009).Encyclopedia of the British press by Dennis Griffiths (Macmillan, 1992).Researching the history of the pressĪlways start with published histories. Use the index to find references to all original documents and publications (including some references to overseas railways) up to 1972. There is also a card index compiled by British Transport Historical records (BTHR) in the reading rooms at The National Archives at Kew. Try searching for the title in our catalogue, within the following departments: The National Archives also has a large number of transport-related newspapers, magazines and journals. If you want to search the London Gazette it’s always best to look on The Gazette website first, but The National Archives also holds an archived copy (1665-1986) in ZJ 1. Mandy Banton, Administering the Empire 1801-1968: a guide to the records of the Colonial Office in the National Archives of the UK (Institute of Historical Research 2008) lists newspapers and Gazettes within the Colonial Office correspondence. They all have the letter codes CO (Colonial Office) or DO (Dominions Office). They have not been digitised, but the originals are held at The National Archives at Kew. To find colonial or dominion government gazettes, search Discovery, our catalogue, using the name of the territory and the phrase ‘government gazettes’. The National Archives has government gazettes – the official newspapers of former British colonies and British dominions. The National Archives is not the best place to start if you’re looking for newspapers, but we do have some newspaper collections. Does The National Archives have newspapers? Use the Find an archive tool to find the contact details of other libraries and local archives that hold newspaper collections. British Library Newspapers – the main British copyright collection.Some libraries and archives have newspaper collections. Where can I find newspaper collections that aren’t online? Contact a library such as the British Library or The National Archives’ Library to ask whether they have an institutional subscription. You can access some of the sites in research libraries. Some of the sites are free, but many are subscription-based (£) and offer subscriptions only to institutions, not to individual people.
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