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LOCAL STUDIES LIBRARY
USER GUIDE 3
LOCAL NEWSPAPERS
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The Local Studies Library contains 1500 volumes of local newspapers and
1000 reels of microfilm. The listings below are intended as a general
guide only and do not detail missing or damaged issues. Local studies
staff will give additional information on request.
Select a letter below to go directly to entries starting with that
letter
M = Microfilm, B = Bound volume i.e. original
newspaper
A
- ADVERTISER (NEWCASTLE)
- M 1981-1989
- From 1989 called Newcastle Herald & Post
- ALNWICK JOURNAL
- ALNWICK MERCURY
B
- BLAYDON COURIER see Tyneside Courier
C
- CONSETT GUARDIAN
- M 1979-1986
- Ceased publication 1986
D
- DISTRICT WEEKLY NEWS (NEWCASTLE)
- DURHAM CHRONICLE
- B 1820, 1859-1860, 1861-1862
- DURHAM COUNTY ADVERTISER
- B 1814-1837
- M Sept 1814 - Aug 1824
E
- EAST END GRAPHIC (NEWCASTLE)
- EVENING CHRONICLE (NEWCASTLE)
- B Jan - June 1949, 1968-1974
- M 1885-1910, 1912-1967, 1975 to date
- EVENING CHRONICLE - FOOTBALL & CRICKET EDITION
- B 1896-1938
- M 1896-1912/13
- EVENING CHRONICLE - FOOTBALL PINK
- B 1967-1969, 1971, 1972-1979
- M 1980 to date
- EVENING CHRONICLE - SPORTS EDITION
- EVENING MAIL (NEWCASTLE)
- B Dec l913 - Mar 1914, Dec 1915 - Mar 1916
- M 1910-1917
- EVENING WORLD (NEWCASTLE)
- EVENING WORLD - FOOTBALL EDITION
F
- FELLING ADVERTISER
- FOOTBALL PINK see Evening Chronicle - Football Pink
G
- GATESHEAD & TYNESIDE ECHO
- GATESHEAD OBSERVER
- B 1837-1850, 1852-1870 incomplete
- GOSFORTH & DISTRICT ADVERTISER
- GOSFORTH GAZETTE
- GOSFORTH NOW
H
- HERALD & ADVERTISER (WALLSEND)
- HESLOP'S ADVERTISER (FELLING)
- HEXHAM COURANT
- B 1960-1974
- M 1975 to date
I
- ILLUSTRATED CHRONICLE (NEWCASTLE)
J
N
- NEWCASTLE ADVERTISER
- NEWCASTLE [WEEKLY] CHRONICLE
- B 1765-1837, 1840-1849
- M 1764-1845, 1851-1859, 1862-1864, 1866, 1869-1940, July 1946 - April
1953
- NEWCASTLE COURANT
- B 1711-1718, 1720-1909
- M 1711-1800
- NEWCASTLE DAILY CHRONICLE
- B 1858-1929
- M 1859-1864, 1867-1885
- NEWCASTLE DAILY COURANT
- NEWCASTLE DAILY/EVENING NEWS
- NEWCASTLE DAILY LEADER
- NEWCASTLE EVENING COURANT
- NEWCASTLE EVENING STAR
- NEWCASTLE EXAMINER
- NEWCASTLE GAZETTE
- B 23rd Dec 1710, 20th - 23rd Feb 1712, 1746
- M 1710-1712, 1744-1752
- NEWCASTLE GUARDIAN
- NEWCASTLE GUARDIAN TELEGRAPH
- B 27th - 29th July 1858
- M 1858-1859
- NEWCASTLE HERALD & POST
- NEWCASTLE INTELLIGENCER
- NEWCASTLE JOURNAL
- B 1769-1778, 1780-1783, 1787-1788, 1832-1865, 1867-1949, 1964-1974
- M 1739-1768, 1779, 1866, 1950-1963, 1975 to date
- NEWCASTLE JOURNAL - NORTHERN BUSINESSMAN
- NEWCASTLE JOURNAL - VOICE OF NORTH EAST INDUSTRY
- NEWCASTLE MESSENGER
- B 1855-1857
- M July - Dec 1855, Jan - Mar 1857
- NEWCASTLE POST
- M 1987-1988
- Became Newcastle Times in Sept 1988
- NEWCASTLE STANDARD
- M 1836 26th Nov - 31st Dec only
- NEWCASTLE TELEGRAPH
- M 1870 25th June - 7th Sept, 24th Dec only
- NEWCASTLE TIMES
- M 1988-1991
- Incorporated with Newcastle Herald & Post Oct 1991
- NEWCASTLE WEEKLY MERCURY
- B 2nd - 16th Feb, 13th - 20th April, 4th - llth May 1723
- M 1722-1723
- NEWCASTLE WEEKLY NEWS
- NEWCASTLE WEEKLY NEWS
- NEWS GUARDIAN see North Shields News Guardian
- NORTH COUNTRY JOURNAL
- NORTH EAST NEWS
- NORTH MAIL
- B 1914-1939 (incomplete)
- Amalgamated with Newcastle Journal in Sept 1939
- NORTH OF ENGLAND FARMER
- NORTH SHIELDS NEWS GUARDIAN
- NORTHERN BUSINESSMAN see Newcastle Journal - Northern Businessman
- NORTHERN FREE PRESS
- NORTHERN LIBERATOR
- NORTHERN STAR
- NORTHERN WEEKLY LEADER
- NORTHERN WEEKLY RECORD
- M 1909 20th Feb - 25th Dec only
- NORTHERN WEEKLY STANDARD
P
S
- SHIELDS & WALLSEND WEEKLY NEWS
- B 1974
- M 1975-1985
- From 1985 called North Shields News Guardian
- SPORTING MAN
- SPORTING NEWS
- M 23rd Mar - 31st Dec 1896, 30th April - 20th Aug 1904
- SPORTS MAIL
- M 1904 30th April - 20th Aug only
- SPORTS WORLD
- STANLEY NEWS
- M 1979-1986
- Ceased publication in April 1986
- SUNDAY SUN (NEWCASTLE)
- B 1964-1974
- M Aug 1919-1963, 1975 to date
T
- TEESDALE MERCURY
- TYNE LIFE
- M 1981-1986 (incomplete)
- Ceased publication July 1986
- TYNE MERCURY
- B 1812-1823, 1826, 1828-1829
- M June 1802-1846
- TYNESIDE COURIER
- B 1958-1959, March 1964, 1974
- M 1975-1979
- Ceased publication Sept 1979
- TYNESIDE DAILY ECHO
- TYNESIDE TIMES
- M 1981
- Became Tyneside Life in 1981
V
- VOICE OF NORTH EAST INDUSTRY see Newcastle Journal - Voice of North
East Industry
W
- WALLSEND HERALD
- B 1907-1908
- Became Herald & Advertiser (Wallsend) in 1909
- WALLSEND NEWS
- B 1954-1961, 1963-1973
- Became Shields & Wallsend Weekly News in 1974
- WASHINGTON CHRONICLE
- B 1971-1974
- M 1975-1976
- Ceased publication in 1976
Please note that photocopies are not available from bound volumes of
newspapers. Please ask the staff if an alternative source (e.g. a
newspaper cutting) is available. All newspapers on microfilm may be
copied.
Newspaper cuttings, some indexed, are available from 1878 to date.
Original newspapers are fragile and are steadily decaying. Handle them
with care. Volumes may be withdrawn from use, without notice, for repair
or microfilming.
August 1994
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