Research Guides: HIST 027: Living with Total War: Europe, 1912-1923 (SC): Historical newspapers

Recommended Newspaper, Magazine, and Journal Sources for WWI (English language)

Many of the databases and websites listed below will let you search and find articles that discuss your specific topic of interest. However, try not to view individual news articles in complete isolation - look at the front page from that day's paper, consider the advertisements and the editorials, and otherwise engage with the article as part of a larger publication.

Times Digital Archive, 1785-2006
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Provides full-text and full-image articles from the Times of London for the years 1785-2006.

The Guardian and Observer (ProQuest Historical News)
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Search full-text of British newspapers The Guardian and Observer from 1791-2003.

Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003
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Provides full-text access to the entire run of the Illustrated London News, the world's first fully illustrated weekly newspaper. Contains high-quality color images of all pages, and all text is fully searchable. Offers insight into all areas of culture and world history for the period covered. Covers 1842-2003.
Periodicals Index Online
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Search journal and magazine articles from 1770-present. Use the "Article Search" link to narrow your search to the years you're interested in.

Periodicals Index will only give you the citation for articles - search Tripod to look for the full article through the library (online, in print, or microfilm).

If you need to use microfilm, feel free to ask a library staff member for help.

View historical issues of The New Statesman
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Search for articles in this magazine by using Periodicals Index Online. Then you can borrow printed bound copies of this weekly British magazine from McCabe Library (2nd floor in the Periodicals area).

You can also browse copies of this magazine from the years you're studying.
British Library Newspaper Archive
Read facsimile pages from a few British newspapers. See both the larger context (other headlines, advertisements) as well as the specific articles you're interested in.

Papers available from the time period covered in this course:

Daily News 1918
News of the World 1918
Weekly Dispatch 1917

Eight Centuries
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Includes over seventy seminal as well as lesser known contemporary indexes to English-language publishing prior to 1930. Access is by genre: 1. Multi-title Periodical Indexes (e.g., Poole's, Legal, Religion, Scientific Papers, etc.); 2. Book Indexes; 3. Newspaper Indexes; 4. Complete Individual Periodical Indexes (e.g., Harper's, Atlantic Monthly,etc.); 5. US Patents; Hansard's; US and UK Historical Government Documents

The Stars and Stripes
From February 8, 1918, to June 13, 1919, by order of General John J. Pershing, the United States Army published a newspaper for its forces in France, The Stars and Stripes. This online collection, presented by the Serial and Government Publications Division of the Library of Congress, includes the complete seventy-one-week run of the newspaper's World War I edition.
Google News Archive
Browse newspapers from around the world (various time periods available). Note that while some newspapers have full-text available from the WWI/interwar period, many of these newspapers are from the US.

Foreign Language News Sources

ANNO: Austrian Newspapers Online
Use ANNO to read Austrian newspapers (in German), including facsimiles of issues from WWI. Examples include Deutsche Press.
Belgica: Belgian Newspapers
Use Belgica to read scanned Belgian newspapers (mostly in French) that have been made available online. Includes some newspapers from the WWI period.
Gallica
Use Gallica to browse and read French newspapers (in French) from the WWI period. Note that not all publications are available in all years. Click on the newspaper title to view the years available to read online.
digiPress
Use digiPress to view freely available German historical newspapers. Note that only some years are available for each publication, so click on the newspaper name to see if issues are available during the years you're studying.
Belgian War Press
Digitized newspapers from the Belgian press from 1830-1950, including publications that were censored during WWI. (News articles are in French, Dutch, and German.)