Library:Historical
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Historical
Major strengths in the UBC Library collection include:
- historical British Columbia newspapers; the majority of these newspapers are available in microformat. Search the UBC Library catalogue by title, or ask for more help at the Koerner Library reference desk.
- the Globe and Mail from 1844 to present
- major international newspapers: available through databases including the Proquest Historical Newspaper collection and the Times Digital Archive, and through microformat collections in Koerner Library
The Google Newspaper archive also has many historical newspapers, including Canadian titles, in its free online collection. List of titles and dates available here.
Full Text Online Historical Newspaper Collections
Canadian
- British Columbia Historical Newspapers - under development; a growing collection of digitized local BC newspapers
- British Colonist - website contains all the issues of the British Colonist (also called the Daily British Colonist, the Daily Colonist, and other variants) from its first issue in 1858 to June of 1910. The British Colonist was the leading paper in the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, and was the paper for the province of British Columbia until the emergence of Vancouver and competitors in the 1890s.
- Globe and Mail: Canada's Heritage from 1844 - the full text online of the Globe and Mail (and former title the Globe) from 1844 to 4 years ago.
- Google Newspaper Archives - contents and dates vary. Includes the Vancouver Sun, Montreal Gazette, Calgary Herald, Ottawa Citizen, Saskatoon Star-Phoenix
- Peel's Prairie Provinces - index and full text to historical prairie newspapers; over 35,000 newspaper issues.
International
- Gale NewsVault - searches across a range of historical newspaper and periodical collections - see the information page for a full description of resources.
- 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection of UK Newspapers - features about 1,270 newspapers and news pamphlets from the United Kingdom. The news sources represent the largest single archive of English news media from the 17th and 18th centuries available from the British Library.
- 19th Century British Library Newspapers - full runs of national, regional and local 19th-century British newspapers; full text of 71 newspapers.
- 19th Century U.S. Newspapers - full-text content and images from numerous newspapers based in urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.
- Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003
- Latin American Newspapers - digitized full text of 35 Latin American newspapers from 19th and 20th century
- Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, 1902-2005
- Proquest Historical Newspapers - Complete coverage of the New York Times 1851 - 2000s, Christian Science Monitor 1908 - 1990s, Washington Post 1877 - 1990s, Wall Street Journal 1889 -1990s. Every word in each paper has been indexed. PDF of each article, plus full page images available.See database for exact dates of coverage.
- Times Digital Archive - Times (London) from 1785-1985
Historical Newspapers by Title
British Columbia
The majority of BC historical newspapers are available in microformat. Search the library catalogue for the name of the newspaper, using the 'journal title' index. If you aren't sure which newspaper you want, ask at the Reference Desk at Koerner Library; or consult the Union Catalogue of British Columbia Newspapers to find the titles of newspapers published in BC, then search the catalogue to determine if we have the title in our collection.
- Daily Colonist - online | microformat
- New Westminster Columbian - print | microformat
- Vancouver Sun - online from Google Newspapers archive (dates vary)
- Victoria Times - microformat
Canada
- Globe and Mail - print | online | microformat
- Financial Post - online | microformat
US/International
- Christian Science Monitor - online | microformat
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - online | microformat
- Financial Times - online | microformat
- Guardian Weekly - print | online | microformat
- Izvestiia - print | online | microformat
- Japan Times - print | online | microformat
- Le Monde - online | microformat
- Moscow News - print | online | microformat
- New York Times - print | online | microformat
- Observer (London) - microformat
- Pravda - online | microformat
- Sunday Times (London) - online | microformat
- Times (London) - online | microformat
- Wall Street Journal - print | online | microformat
- Washington Post - online | microformat