Welsh Newspapers, 1827-1963
Discover over 100 newspaper titles from the world-famous British Newspaper Archive, offering insight into Wales, its history and how the people of the country responded to key transformations over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including the Industrial Revolution, the introduction of the welfare state and more. This series has been digitised in partnership with the British Library and leading publishers.
Key facts
1827-1963
Date range
More than
100
Newspaper titles
More than
1,700,000
Newspaper pages
Source(s)
and more
Western Mail, 24 January 1921
About this series
This series spans across Wales, from the industrial South to the rural North, and has been digitised in partnership with the British Library and leading publishers. It captures the modernisation of the country through tumultuous years. These newspapers chart important historical processes: the growth of literacy with the development of national education, increased politicisation with the advent of trade unions, and universal suffrage, among others. The changing relationship between Wales and England (and their place within the United Kingdom) is also an important theme captured in these pages.
Among the titles in this collection are notable publications such as:
- Herald Cymraeg, Welsh language newspaper with a focus on Welsh news and people, and on Welsh literature.
- Western Mail, founded by the Marquess of Bute in Cardiff in 1869, this paper claimed from its early days to the be Wales’s national newspaper.
- Workman’s Advocate (Merthyr Tydfil), radical bilingual newspaper devoted to the working man in South Wales.
- South Wales Echo, widely circulating Cardiff newspaper, once the workplace of novelist Ken Follett and cartoonist Gren.
- South Wales Daily Post, Wales’s best-selling daily newspaper, which was once the workplace of poet Dylan Thomas.
This collection offers invaluable primary sources for scholars and students across multiple disciplines, including history, literature, media and communication studies, political science, Welsh studies, cultural studies, gender studies, labour history, and digital humanities.
The British Newspaper Archive
DC Thomson, the owners of The Social History Archive, are the British Library’s digital publishing partners and have been developing the world-famous British Newspaper Archive for over a decade. Through this partnership with the British Library, the British Newspaper Archive (home to the world’s largest collection of digitised British and Irish newspapers), and other key newspaper publishers, The Social History Archive is delighted to make this rich archive available to the higher education community.
This series spans across Wales, from the industrial South to the rural North, and has been digitised in partnership with the British Library and leading publishers. It captures the modernisation of the country through tumultuous years. These newspapers chart important historical processes: the growth of literacy with the development of national education, increased politicisation with the advent of trade unions, and universal suffrage, among others. The changing relationship between Wales and England (and their place within the United Kingdom) is also an important theme captured in these pages.
Among the titles in this collection are notable publications such as:
- Herald Cymraeg, Welsh language newspaper with a focus on Welsh news and people, and on Welsh literature.
- Western Mail, founded by the Marquess of Bute in Cardiff in 1869, this paper claimed from its early days to the be Wales’s national newspaper.
- Workman’s Advocate (Merthyr Tydfil), radical bilingual newspaper devoted to the working man in South Wales.
- South Wales Echo, widely circulating Cardiff newspaper, once the workplace of novelist Ken Follett and cartoonist Gren.
- South Wales Daily Post, Wales’s best-selling daily newspaper, which was once the workplace of poet Dylan Thomas.
This collection offers invaluable primary sources for scholars and students across multiple disciplines, including history, literature, media and communication studies, political science, Welsh studies, cultural studies, gender studies, labour history, and digital humanities.
The British Newspaper Archive
DC Thomson, the owners of The Social History Archive, are the British Library’s digital publishing partners and have been developing the world-famous British Newspaper Archive for over a decade. Through this partnership with the British Library, the British Newspaper Archive (home to the world’s largest collection of digitised British and Irish newspapers), and other key newspaper publishers, The Social History Archive is delighted to make this rich archive available to the higher education community.
Herald Cymraeg, 29 March 1892
South Wales Daily Post, 18 August 1950
Newspaper series
| Title name | No. pages | Years | Publication place |
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 Abergele & Pensarn Visitor6885 pages1869, 1872–1896, 1898–1899, 1901–1902, 1950Abergele, Denbighshire, Wales | |||
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