Digital library

6. Newspapers old and new

RBdigital PressReader Unlimited Newspapers (external link)

• Press Reader offers thousands of national, provincial, and global newspapers with 90 days of back issues.
• Newspapers from over 100 countries in 60 languages.
• To access these you will need to register for a RBdigital account using your library card number and an email address.
• This same account can also be used for eAudiobooks and eMagazines.
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NewsBank (external link)

• Newsbank contains articles published in UK and world newspapers in the last 5 to 25 years (varies with different papers) right up to yesterday's edition.
• All the major national daily papers and many local and regional ones are included.
• To access these you will need your library card number.
• See a video introduction to using Newsbank in our library academy (external link).

British Library Newspapers 1730 - 1950 (external link)

• National, regional and local newspapers from the Eighteenth to Twentieth centuries taken directly from the holdings of the British Library
• These include the Burnley Express, Lancaster Gazette and Preston Chronicle.
• To access these you will need your library card number.

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.

• To access these you will need your library card number.

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. 
• Red Rose does not require any login to view any of the content.