Edinburgh Evening News Archive

The Edinburgh Evening News, founded in 1873, is a newspaper giving an Edinburgh and Lothians’ perspective on various news events. The paper is printed every day except on a Sunday and focuses mainly on local issues.

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Let our archivist don their specs and rifle through the stacks, to retrieve the exact newspaper you’re after.

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The Edinburgh Evening News

Edinburgh Evening News archives create a captivating relationship with the past by showing the popular news headlines from years ago. Regular readers of the Edinburgh Evening News may be fascinated to read Edinburgh Evening News back issues to see what news events the newspaper has covered in the past. Genuine original copies from our collection make very interesting presents, especially when they show news events from a special day. After you have chosen your date, you can personalise the original newspaper by adding a name and a message. No matter the occasion, a genuine original newspaper makes a very memorable and sentimental gift.

Our passion for history shows

3 million old newspapers in the archive.

100s of newspaper titles.

Authentic, original papers. Not copies.

History in your hands

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A gift they won’t be expecting

Forget flowers. Sidestep the sock aisle. An original newspaper to commemorate a date from your recipient’s past is a memory that’ll last.

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PRESERVED IN THE WORLD’S LARGEST PRIVATE ARCHIVE

Your newspaper will come from the echoing halls of the Historic Newspapers archive in Western Scotland, overseen by our team of ten archivists.

SELECTED AND RESTORED BY HAND

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.

PERSONALISED, PRESENTED AND DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR

Choose a gift box, and if you wish, add a bottle of the recipient’s favourite drink. However you choose to personalise your gift, it’ll be delivered within five days.

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.

FLYING OFF THE NEWSSTANDS

Bestsellers leave public ‘clamouring for copies’, reports suggest.