Historical newspaper and periodical collections can be found via the Library's News database list or the various history databases. Included in the list are such databases as:
- Gale news vault where you can browse the Times Digital Archive, 17th-18th century Burney collection newspapers, or the 19th century British Library newspapers,
- Times digital archive where you can search the Times newspaper including advertisements and illustrations for the period 1785 to 2014.
An online resource to discover historical newspapers is the ICON: Newspaper Digitization Projects.