Newspapers

Guildhall Library holds a number of newspapers in hard copy and/or on microfilm:

• City Press, the local newspaper for the City of London, 1857-1976,
• The Times (1785 to date)
• T he Financial Times (1888 to date),
• Evening Standard, 1977-1980 and 1994 to date,
• London Gazette, the newspaper of state intelligence, 1665 to date.
• The Graphic, 1869-1931
• Daily Graphic, 1890-1919
• Lloyd’s Evening Post and British Chronicle, 1757-1808
• London chronicle, 1757-April 1823
• St James’s Chronicle, 1761-1836 (incomplete run)

We hold a number of short runs of certain titles, including a collection of newspapers produced during the General Strike of 1926 and various political news sheets printed during the English Civil War and Commonwealth period.

A complete list of newspaper holdings can be consulted at the Guildhall Library enquiry desk.

In addition, we subscribe to the following digitised newspapers:

• 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers, predominantly London newspapers of the 17th and 18th centuries.
• 19th Century British Library Newspapers, which includes national and regional newspapers.
• Daily Mirror Digital Archive 1903 to date
• The Financial Times Historical Archive 1888-2006
• The Illustrated London News 1842-2003
• Picture Post Historical Archive 1938-1957
• Times Digital Archive 1785-2006

And the following digitised newspaper indexes:

• British Humanities Index Archive 1962-1997
• The Official Index to The Times 1906-1980
• Palmers Index to The Times 1790-1905