Sunday Mirror Archive

An old archive edition of the Sunday Mirror newspaper makes a great birthday or anniversary gift. Recipients love to read what was happening in the news on their date of birth or on the day of their wedding. It creates a fascinating connection with their past, which make these old issues of the Sunday Mirror newspaper stand out as such a special gift.
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Your newspaper gift can be further personalised by adding the recipient’s name, the occasion, and a personal greeting on the Certificate of Authenticity, which acts as a guarantee that your copy of the Sunday Mirror is a genuine original newspaper.
Historic Newspapers have the UK’s largest archive of the Sunday Mirror, stretching back over one hundred years. To see the newspaper titles we have for your chosen special day, simply select the date in the box below.
The Sunday Mirror Supplements
A colour magazine was first provided with the Sunday Mirror on 19th June 1988, following the newspaper’s re-launch in full colour. It originally appeared as a monthly magazine, but was printed weekly from 4th September 1988. It was called “The Sunday Mirror Magazine” and contained features, interviews, recipes, fashion, beauty advice and a cartoon and puzzles page. “The Sunday Mirror Magazine” was replaced by “Personal” magazine on 8th September 1996, with a greater emphasis on health and relationships. The television listings section of the newspaper was merged into the “Personal” supplement on 4th January 1998.
The last edition of “Personal” was printed on 14th April 2002. It was replaced by the “M Celebs” magazine one week later, which had an increased number of pages and contained features with a greater focus on celebrities. On 23rd May 2004, the magazine was re-branded “Celebs on Sunday” and was expanded to include real life stories.
A second magazine was added to the Sunday Mirror on 11th January 2004 with the launch of “Homes and Holidays”. This magazine contained travel and property features and replaced an earlier newspaper supplement called “Holidays”.
In addition to the “Celebs on Sunday” and “Homes and Holiday” magazines, the Sunday Mirror currently includes a football newspaper supplement called “Premplus”. This sports section is published every week during the football season.

For a full review of the year, you can read our detailed 1970 timeline. Some key events from this year include the Concorde’s first supersonic flight, Britain’s most iconic rock band The Beatles split, and the largest rock festival of all time took place on The Isle of Wight, which attracted a crowd of 600,000 people and acts such as Jimi Hendrix, The Who, and The Doors. It was also a tragic year, with Jimi Hendrix’s death shocking the world. Hendrix died in London after overdosing.A terrible monsoon hit Vietnam, which killed almost 300 and left 200,000 homeless. It was also a year of wonderment and discovery, when the USSR’s “Venera 7” completed the first successful landing on Venus.

An authentic 1970 newspaper is a wonderful keepsake gift idea to remember all the fascinating events that took place as the world entered into a new decade.

3rd January 1970

The Beatles give their final studio performance.

14th February 1970

The
iconic live album “The Who: Live at Leeds” is recorded.

12th March 1970

Teenagers
in the United Kingdom vote for the first time, in a by-election in Bridgwater.

21st March 1970

“All
Kinds of Everything”, sung by Dana, wins the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest for
Ireland.

25th March 1970

The Concorde makes its first supersonic flight.

10th April 1970

Paul McCartney announces that the Beatles have disbanded and talks about the
impending release of his first solo album.

16th April 1970

The National Westminster Bank begins trading in the United Kingdom. It had been
established in 1968 following the merger of the National Provincial Bank and
the Bank of Westminster.
18th June 1970
The Conservative Party wins the 1970 general election and Edward Heath becomes
Prime Minister.

21st June 1970

Brazil defeats Italy 4-1 to win the 1970 FIFA World Cup.

26-30th August 1970

The Isle of Wight Festival takes place on East Afton Farm off the coast of England.
600,000 people attend the event, making it the largest rock festival of all
time. Artists include Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Doors, Chicago, Richie Havens,
John Sebastian, Joan Baez, Ten Years After, Emerson, Lake & Palmer and
Jethro Tull.

18th September 1970

Jimi Hendrix dies by choking on his own vomit, after falling unconscious due to a
barbiturate overdose. He is in London at the time.

30th October 1970

The worst monsoon to hit Vietnam in six years causes large floods, killing 293
people and leaving 200,000 homeless. The terrible weather virtually halts the
Vietnam War.

4th November 1970

Social workers in Los Angeles take custody of “Genie”, a thirteen-year-old girl who
had been kept in solitary confinement since her birth.

15th December 1970

The USSR’s “Venera 7” becomes the first spacecraft to land successfully on Venus
and transmit data back to Earth.

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3 million old newspapers in the archive.

100s of newspaper titles.

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After you make your order, an archivist examines your paper, page by page. The paper is pressed flat and any flaws are rectified with archival repair tape.

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insights from our archivist
These aren’t replicas. They’re the actual newspapers that sat on newsstands up to 125 years ago. The one you buy could be the last copy in existence.
Prices can vary for several reasons, like popularity of a specific day, whether the paper is local or national, the paper’s age, and the number of copies left.
Missing papers give us a window into history. If a paper isn’t available for the date you’re after, it could be because that newspaper was on strike during the period.