Newspapers

We subscribe to a wide range of newspapers, both in print and online.

Online newspapers

The following are free to use in any Plymouth library or from home if you have a Plymouth library card.

Newsbank Newspapers

Full text articles from a range of local, national and international newspapers from 1998 to date.

Times Digital Archive

The complete digital edition of The Times (London) from 1785 to 1985. Newsbank has The Times archive from 1985 to date.

19th Century British Newspapers

The archives of influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of the 19th century British society.

See cyberLibrary - newspapers online for links to free online newspapers.

National newspapers

The Central Library subscribes to the following daily and Sunday newspapers:

• Daily Telegraph
• Financial Times
• Guardian
• Independent
• The Times
• International Herald Tribune
• Le Monde
• Observer
• The Independent on Sunday
• Sunday Times

Daily newspapers are kept for 12 days. Sunday newspapers are kept for 10 days. Archives back to 1998 are available through Newsbank.

Community libraries have daily copies of local and national newspapers.

Local newspapers

• The Evening Herald - We have copies on microfilm from 1895 to date and online through Newsbank from 2008 to date (requires library card).
• Western Morning News - We have copies on microfilm from 1864 to date and online through Newsbank from 1999 to current.
• Plymouth Sunday Independent - We have bound copies from 1925.

Indexes are available from the 1960s.

Since January 2000 we have indexed all significant articles from the Western Morning News and Evening Herald on our online catalogue.

Other local newspapers are held on microfilm in The History Room in the Central Library.

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