Newspapers are a wonderful source of information about a local area for local and family

historians. They contain information which does not appear elsewhere. Some of this

information has been indexed. Our collections cover every significant newspaper relating to

Cambridgeshire.

Principal Local Newspapers held in the

Cambridgeshire Collection Business Week 1990-1993

Business Weekly 1993-present

Cambridge Advertiser 1839-1850

Cambridge Chronicle 1762-1934

Cambridge Daily/Evening News 1888-present

Cambridge Express 1868-1909

Cambridge Guardian 1838

Cambridge Gazette 1899-1900

Cambridge Graphic 1900-1902

Cambridge Independent 2016 - present

Cambridge Independent Press 1815-1981

Cambridge Intelligencer 1793-1803

Cambridge News & Crier 2009- 2016

Cambridge Observer 1884-1885

Cambridge Sporting News 1929

Cambridge Standard 1935-1936

Cambridge Town Crier 1975-2009

Cambridge Weekly News 1981-2009

Cambs & Eastern Counties Weekly Gazette 1899

Cambridgeshire/March Times 1872-present

Cambridgeshire Weekly News 1889-1917

Cambridgeshire Weekly News 1981-1986

Chatteris News & County Press 1903-1915

Daily Telegram 1877

Ely Gazette 1898-1912

Local Newspapers

Cambridgeshire

Collection

Ely Standard 1913-present

Ely Weekly Guardian 1889-1898, 1905-1909

Fenland Advertiser/Citizen 1975-present

Fenland Post 2004-2005

Haverhill Weekly News 1889-1909

Herts & Cambs Reporter/Royston Crow 1876-1950, 1970-present

Home News & Temperance Advocate 1876-1877

Hunts Chronicle 1889-1896, 1899-1900

Hunts Post 1885-present

Isle of Ely Gazette 1873-1874, 1877-1878

Labourers News 1886-1890

Linton & Sawston Express 1855-1857

Newmarket Journal 1882-present

Newmarket Weekly News 1889-1909

Ramsey Post 1953-1965

Royston Weekly News 1889-1909

Saffron Walden Weekly News 1889-1902, 1905-1909

St Ives Chronicle 1889-1901

St Neots Advertiser 1878-1979

Soham Gazette 1900-1902

Star in the East 1836-1840

Varsity 1931-present

Whittlesea Chronicle 1898-1900

Whittlesea Guardian 1909-1911, 1913-1915

Wisbech Advertiser 1855-1975

Wisbech Standard 1888-1992

British Newspaper Archive

Cambridgeshire Libraries has a subscription to the British Newspaper Archive, so you can use

the database FREE in Libraries You can now search millions of stories by keyword, name,

location, date or title and watch your results appear in an instant. Titles of local interest

include:

Cambridge Chronicle and Journal 1813 – 1900

Cambridge Daily News 1889-1939 (selected years only – check site)

Cambridge Independent Press 1839 – 1939 (selected years only – check site)

Cambridgeshire Libraries, Archives and Information

Local Studies Team (March 2018)

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Microfilm of those titles marked in blue are NOT complete. Please email

Cambridgeshire.collection@cambridgeshire.gov.uk to check availability before visiting

the Collection.

Huntingdon, Bedford & Peterborough Gazette 1818 - 1839

Stamford Mercury 1714 – 1910

More years and titles are being added all the time.