Our subscription services aggregate many hundreds of full text newspapers and press wires allowing you to search quickly by keyword. Note that images and some features may not be included in the results.
Current news
- Nexis - contains the full text of many UK and overseas newspapers. Check the sources section for individual dates and coverage.
- Factiva - international news database produced by Dow Jones which includes newspapers and business wires.
- FT.com - register with your LSE email for the latest articles from the Financial Times months before they appear on Nexis and Factiva.
- Economist - current issues via ProQuest One Business. Historical issues via Gale Archive 1843-2020.
- BoB National (Box of Broadcasts) - access programmes and transcripts from mainly UK TV and radio channels.
Foreign news
Recent editions of foreign newspapers can be accessed through Nexis and Factiva.
Other resources include:
- Eastview Russian Databases - inc. the weekly Current Digest of the Russian Press - English translations of Russian press materials; Universal Database of Russian Central Newspapers (UDB-COM) - 40 Russian language newspapers.
- LatinNews - newsletters providing information on recent political and economic developments in Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Mideastwire.com - English translations and summaries of Middle Eastern news stories.
- Peoples Daily (Renmin Ribao) - official newspaper of the central government of the People's Republic of China. Available in Chinese from 1946 onwards.
- The Morning Context (India) - reportage and analysis from India on finance and banking, corporates and large companies, start ups, technology and social media, environment, government policy, culture, sports, economy and politics.
Historical news
Both Nexis and Factiva contain some back files of individual newspapers. More extensive coverage can be found on these sources:
- Caribbean newspapers 1718-1876 - over 160 publications from nations including Antigua, Haiti and Jamaica.
- EastView newspaper databases - inc.: Middle Eastern and African Newspapers in Arabic and French, 19th to 20th C.; Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers covering 1807 to 1929; Southeast Asian Newspapers of Myanmar, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam from late 19th to 20th C.; Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers 1911 to 1949; Pravda Digital Archive- official newspaper of Soviet Central Committee of the Communist Party 1912 to 1991.
- Gale newspaper databases - inc.: the 17th to 18th C. Burney Collection Newspapers; 19th Century British Library Newspapers; Times Digital Archive 1785 to 2019; Financial Times Historical Archive 1888 to 2016; Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896 to 2004; Economist Historical Archive, 1843 to 2015; Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855 to 2000.
- Guardian 1821 to 2003 and Observer 1791 to 2003
- New York Times 1851 to 2020
- Times of India 1838 to 2011
- Wall Street Journal 1889 to 1922. Issues from 1991 onwards are on Factiva
- World newspaper archive - inc.: African Newspapers 1800 to 1922 from Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Latin American Newspapers series 1 & 2, 1805 to 1922 from Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Venezuela.