Newspapers and other online news sources from the 17th – 21st centuries: France, Belgium and the Netherlands

Gallica gives the full text of several important French newspapers including Le Figaro (1826-1942), Le temps (1861-1939), L'humanité (1904-1944)

Digitised historical French newspapers for the following regions:
Alsace Champagne-Ardenne Lorraine - Aquitaine - Limousin Poitou-Charentes - Auvergne Rhône-Alpes - Bourgogne Franche-Comté - Bretagne -
Centre Val de Loire - Corse - Hauts-de-France - Ile-de-France - Languedoc-Roussillon Midi-Pyrenées - Normandie - Outre-mer - Pays de la Loire - Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur

Access to 29 digitised 19th and 20th century French colonial newspapers including Revue de l'histoire des colonies françaises (1913-1931), Revue de l'Orient (1843-1865), etc.

Gives access to a range of digital libraries (some of them with collections of digitized newspapers) including Gallica.

The Gazetier universel is a virtual library of the press of the Ancien Régime. It gives online access to more than 320 French language periodicals of the 17th and 18th centuries. It is regularly updated. To access a particular item click on the name of the library providing the digitized version.

The Mercure françois is often seen as a precursor to the modern newspaper. Published since 1605 and from 1611 onwards by the Richer brothers in Paris, the Mercure françois covered important political, religious and international news providing chronological accounts of these events and including detailed reports. Digitised scans for 1605-1643.

Founded as Mercure galant in 1672. Hardcopy: selected years. Online for 1672 to 1674, 1678 to 1682 and 1890 à 1935 in Gallica

The first weekly French newspaper founded by Théophrast Renaudot in Paris in 1631. Incomplete set of scans for 1631-1792

Founded in 1826. Hardcopy: 1 May 1829-31 Dec. 1831 and 1966:Jan.-1990:Dec.. Online: 1854 until
1942 in Gallica. From 1996 available online in Factiva and Nexis.

Founded in 1880 as a Roman Catholic newspaper. Online: 1880-1994 in Gallica. From 2005 in Factiva. From 1995 in Nexis.

Founded in 1904 by Jean Jaurès & has communist leanings. Online: 1904 to 1944 in Gallica. From 2007 in Factiva.

Founded in 1908. Online: from 1997 in Factiva.

France most important daily newspaper. Founded in 1944. Hardcopy: 1946-1985 (microfilm). 2006-2010 available in Business Source Complete.

Founded in 1944. Hardcopy: 1953-57 [incomplete holdings].

Founded in 1973. The Taylor Institution Library currently subscribe to the paper version of this weekly (term-time only) and it is to be found in the MLF (Teaching Collection).

BelgicaPress is an online resource providing access to nine digitised historical Belgium newspapers between 1831-1970. NOTE: You must register as a user first in order to see any images, even if they are out of copyright.

Over 4 million pages have been digitised and are full-text searchable. They cover 1831 to 1970 for the following newspapers: L'Echo De La Presse, Gazet Van Brussel, Het Handelsblad, L'Indépendance Belge (printed in Britain), Le Messager De Gand, De Nieuwe Gids, De Nieuwe Standaard und Het Nieuws Van Den Dag.

However, only content before 1919 is freely accessible over the internet. That is still an amazing 1.2 million pages and particularly good news for 19th century and World War I historians. Content after 1919 can only be consulted in Koninklijke Bibliotheek België itself.

The Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society (Ceges-Soma [French-Flemish acronym]), a federal research institution on wars and conflicts of the twentieth century and their impact on Belgium, launched the Belgian War Press website on 14 December 2012.
The Belgian War Press introduces you to hundreds of Belgian newspapers that were written, printed and distributed clandestinely during the two World Wars.

Published between 1611 and 1811 in Leiden (Leyde).
Digitised scans for 1750-1793.

Founded in founded in 1884 and one of Belgium's most important French newspaper.

The other important French-language Belgium daily newspaper, founded in 1887. Hardcopy: Jan. 1980-Sept. 1988 only [microfilm]

The Couranten Corpus comprises the seventeenth-century Dutch newspapers available on Delpher. The oldest surviving newspapers were published in 1618.

A portal giving access to over 8 million digitised images of Dutch newspapers, starting in the 1620s but being strongest in the 19th and 20th centuries.
You can search by keyword but also use some visualised browsing features by date and by title.

Contains a collection of newspapers from Zeeland (westernmost province of the Netherlands) compiled by the Zeeland Library. The digital collection includes only selected regional newspapers.

Founded in 1893, the largest Dutch daily newspaper.

Founded in 1970 this is a daily evening newspaper published in the Netherlands. Hardcopy: Jaarg. 9:no. 77(1979)-1994:no.9. [microfilm]. Online: from 1990 in Nexis.