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Mail :
Reference Library
Plymouth Central Library
Community Services
Drake Circus
Plymouth
PL4 8AL
Phone :
01752 305907
01752 305908
Email :
library@plymouth.gov.uk

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Newspapers

Your library service can provide you with access to a wide range of newspapers, both in print and online.

Newsbank Newspapers

We subscribe to Newsbank Newspapers which gives you access to full text articles from a range of local, national and international newspapers from 1998 to date.

Free to use in any Plymouth library or from home if you have a Plymouth library card.

Times Digital Archive

The Times Digital Archive has the complete digital edition of The Times (London) from 1785 to 1985.

Free to use in any Plymouth Library or from home if you have a Plymouth library card.

See cyberLibrary - newspapers online for links to online newspapers.


The Central Reference Library has a large collection of newspapers, Including:

National newspapers

We keep print copies of national newspapers for six months, for older copies see Newsbank Newspapers

  • Daily Telegraph
  • Financial Times
  • Guardian
  • Independent
  • The Times
  • Observer
  • The Independent on Sunday
  • Sunday Times

Local newspapers

  • The Evening Herald - We have copies on microfilm from 1895 to date.
  • Western Morning News - We have copies on microfilm from 1864 to date.
  • Plymouth Sunday Independent - We have bound copies from 1925.

Indexes are available from the 1960s. From 2000 the indexes are included on the Library catalogue

For details of other local newspapers available see Local Studies resources

International newspapers

We keep international newspapers for one month plus the current month.

  • International Herald Tribune
  • Le Monde

Community libraries also have copies of local and national newspapers.