Ancestors lost in the crowd?
New to family history research?
Perhaps these articles on our website may help:
Census 1841 - 1911

Birth, Death and Marriage Registration

The London Gazette

Newspaper archives

Trade Directories

Newspaper online archives.

Also see our article on newspaper archives.

Guardian and Observer newspapers
1821-2000 for the Guardian, and 1791-2000 for the Observer. Can be accessed through some UK county libraries. Speak to your local librarian.

Daily Mirror archive
1903 - 2000. The archive will in future include the Daily Express and other publications.

The Times digital archives 1785 - 1985 is operated by Thomson Gale databases and can be accessed through some UK county libraries. Speak to your local librarian.

19th century British Museum newspaper collection
Available through universities, and other subscribing institutions. Or speak to your local librarian. Or by payment on this site. Access to the Penny Illustrated Paper and The Graphic is free.

The Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (ncse) is a free, online edition of six nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers.

British Library
Limited archive (free).

The Scotsman
1817 - 1950 (payment or free for Athens users)

The Irish Times
1851 - 2007 (payment)

New Zealand newspapers
1840 - 1915 (free)

Google News archive search
Links to either current news articles on the Google database or numerous other newspaper archives mainly US. Initial search free.

New York Times
Articles between 1851 and 1922 are free. Articles 1923 to 1981 are mainly pay-per-view.

Australian newspapers on Trove. Free access to hundreds of newspapers, many of which carried news from Britain.