Digital library

5. Newspapers old and new

British Library Newspapers 1730 - 1950 (external link)

• Includes the Burnley Express, Lancaster Gazette and Preston Chronicle
• National, regional and local newspapers from the Eighteenth to Twentieth centuries taken directly from the holdings of the British Library.

Times Digital Archive (external link)

• The complete digital edition of The Times (London) from 1785 to 2010.
• Every page of every issue includes headlines, articles, images, editorial, birth and death notices and classifieds.

NewsBank (external link)

• Articles published in UK and world newspapers in the last 5 to 25 years (varies with different papers).
• Includes all the major national daily papers and many local and regional ones. 

Red Rose Collections (Lancashire County Council)

• Red Rose Collections includes a Newspaper Index to articles in local Lancashire newspapers from the 19th century onwards which are held on microfilm and in cuttings files at libraries across Lancashire..
• Note that digitisation of these indexes is still on-going, so this online index is by no means exhaustive.