Old Newspapers Online – Buy Original, Genuine Old Historic Newspapers From A Special Day In Your Past – Direct From Our UK Based Partners! Ideal commemorative gifts for a key milestone in someone’s life such as a Silver or Golden wedding Anniversary, a 40th or 50th Birthday, a Christening, Bar Mitzvah or even a retirement.
The following text was taken from the website of our leading supplier of old newspapers, Historic Newspapers.
“Choose from a range of attractive Gift Pack options, including gift boxes, presentation folders, bound leatherette books and a selection of frames.
See which titles are available for your date and order direct from the largest and only major newspaper archive in the UK, dating back to 1685.
All gift newspapers come with a personalised Certificate of Authenticity including the recipient name, the paper date and a personal message.
Historic Newspapers are proud and privileged to own the largest private archive of British newspapers in the world.
With over 7m papers dating back to 1685, Historic Newspapers have titles for every day going back to 1810. Some of these are extremely rare and cover such news events as Trafalgar, Waterloo, the gruesome coverage of Jack the Ripper, famous battles, and more recently Lunar Landings and 9-11.
The archive has been built over many years from various sources: initially from the newspaper group’s original archives as they moved out of Fleet Street in the 80s, and continues today, as virtually all the national Scottish and English newspaper titles send us their daily editions. Papers are also continually being sourced from libraries and other collections from all over the world.
For centuries up until the last few years, newspaper back copies for each month were bound in leather binders to preserve and protect them and allow researchers easy access. This is how the vast majority of our archive papers are now stored. When a newspaper is sold, the paper is carefully removed out of the binding, and expertly prepared for sale.
It is often asked… “what are the right climatic conditions to store these precious and increasingly rare newspapers?” The answer! Avoid hot, bright and dry conditions. It is no coincidence therefore that this historical archive is preserved and stored on the coast in S.W Scotland near Scotland’s National Book town – Wigtown in Dumfries and Galloway.
Original newspapers have become popular gifts because they are truly personal and such a great commemorative gift for key events like a Silver Wedding Anniversary or 50th birthday. They have become a significant gift purchase and are now sold by many well known retailers including WHSmith and most mail order companies.”