Historic Newspapers Blog

A History of The Chicago Tribune

November 24, 2020

The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper printed in Chicago, Illinois. The newspaper is the most-read newspaper in the Chicago metropolitan area, as well as...

The Roaring Twenties in America

November 18, 2020

100 years ago this year, the United States entered an extremely prosperous decade, with a booming economy, new technology, and great social change for many...

A History of The Dallas Morning News

November 9, 2020

The Dallas Morning News is a daily newspaper reaching the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas state, with its headquarters in Downtown Dallas. The newspaper has...

A Year in History: Timeline of 1920 Events

November 5, 2020

1920 will be remembered as year when the League of Nations was created, the 19th Amendment was passed in America giving women the right to...

From Boom to Bust: Timeline of the Great Depression, 1930s

October 30, 2020

While the United States was experiencing economic prosperity throughout the 1920s, it seemed like the good times were never going to end. However, the Wall...

The Start of World War One: Through The Papers

October 22, 2020

No country had ever seen a war on such a scale as World War One, or the “Great War” as it was known at the...

A History of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch

September 30, 2020

Based in St. Louis, Missouri, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch is a major regional newspaper that serves the St. Louis metropolitan area. While the Belleville News-Democrat,...

A History of The Washington Post

September 4, 2020

The Washington Post is a daily newspaper published in Washington D.C. It’s the most widely read newspaper in the Washington area, and the District of...

“Catch Us If You Can” - Liverpool’s Title Win, Through the Papers

August 13, 2020

Open almost any of our personalised football books, and somewhere, at one point or another, you’ll find evidence of one undeniable truth: Liverpool football club...

Historic Games: Newcastle Chelsea ‘12

August 10, 2020

Newcastle United is a football club with a lot of stories to tell, and not all of them have a happy ending. Luckily, our Newcastle...

Historic Celebrities: Sean Connery

July 30, 2020

Sean Connery turns 90 on 25th August. As we can’t send him our personalised birthday book to commemorate him becoming a nonagenarian Historic Newspapers takes...

A Year in History: 1997 Timeline

July 27, 2020

1997 events are not to be forgotten. From a cult’s mass suicide, a Princess losing her life, and a lone person making it across Antarctica,...

A Year in History: Timeline of 1996 Events

July 21, 2020

From the first images of Pluto, the introduction of a new computer language to the 26th Olympic Games, 1996 was an eventful year. To learn...

Historic Games: Liverpool Arsenal ‘08

July 16, 2020

For all intents and purposes, 2008 was the year that English football ruled Europe, with all four English sides making the Champions League quarter-finals, three...

"The Battle of Britain": Leeds Rangers ‘92

July 7, 2020

England versus Scotland. The oldest football rivalry of them all. The beautiful game would see almost a hundred battles between the two national teams before...

Historic Celebrities: Arianna Huffington

June 30, 2020

Arianna Huffington will celebrate her 70th birthday on July 15th. For this Greek-American author, media mogul and businesswoman it seems everything she touches turns to...

Historic Celebrities: Ringo Starr

June 23, 2020

Ringo Starr, drummer of The Beatles, turns 80 on 7th July 2020, and though we can’t give him our personalised birthday book to commemorate his...

Historic Games: The Miracle in Istanbul

June 16, 2020

Prior to the 2005 Champions League final, there was little debate to be had regarding the identity of the favourites. AC Milan had qualified for...