Our historic local newspaper holdings are as follows:

Microfilm

On microfilm, we have Unit 6, series 4 of the '18th Century Provincial Newspapers' collection. This contains:

• The Newcastle gazette or Northern Courant, 1710-1712
• The Newcastle Courant 1711-1800
• The Newcastle Weekly Mercury, 1722-1723
  The North Country Journal or the Impartial intelligencer, 1734-1738 

The microfilms are on public access in our media room (room 436) on floor 4 of the Philip Robinson Library. This collection is in filing cabinet #10 (the cabinets are in a small room at the back of room 436). There are 2 microform readers in the room, and you can download from them to a USB drive.  One reader is accessible with a university login and the other is accessible without.  You need to book a microform reader to use one  via the study spaces booking system.

Electronic Resources

We also subscribe to the British Library newspapers collection online from Gale, which has some coverage of Newcastle titles as follows:

Other Libraries

Newcastle City Library (public library) has a big collection of local newspapers, so it may be beneficial to review their holdings as well. To find out more about their local history section, please see the City Council's Local Studies and Family History webpage. 

For more information on historic newspapers, as well as for current, business and international news, please go to our Newspaper resources guide.