Newspaper From The Day You Were Born

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Why Newspapers Make the Perfect Day You Were Born Gifts

People have an innate curiosity to know what happened on the day they were born and understand how the world they know today once was. Often memories that we are too young to recall directly can be prompted by revisiting them through visual cues, such as the images and firsthand accounts found in newspapers from that very day. As the recipient reads through a newspaper from the day they were born they are likely to experience a wave of nostalgia and have some fond memories prompted.

Nostalgic gifts are especially popular for milestone birthdays, but why settle for a trinket from that decade, year, or even month, when there are gifts from the day you were born available? As the world’s largest archive you can not only find newspapers available from the day you were born, but also select specific national, and regional titles!

Headlines From The Day You Were Born

Surprisingly it is often the parts of a newspaper that you most commonly skip over which turn out to be the most fascinating when reading a historic paper from the day you were born. Front pages were often filled with advertisements that now offer a fascinating insight into a bygone age; be it the prices, style of language used or even the products or services themselves! The photographs and images printed on the day you were born will of course be as clear and legible as the day they were printed after having been carefully preserved under optimum conditions.

With the world’s largest private collection of archived newspapers we can almost guarantee a newspaper will be available from the day you were born. Newspapers over 100 years old are generally bought for historical interest although we have even supplied a born day newspaper for someone born 110 years ago! There are a huge range of title to choose from for the majority of dates, including many that are no longer in circulation. Some examples of the newspaper titles that are no longer printed include the Daily Graphic, the News Chronicle, The Citizen – and many others.

Perfect Gifts From The Day You Were Born

There is also a great selection of gift presentation options that not only offer the perfect finishing touch, to what is already a unique and one of a kind gift, but also help preserve the newspaper so it can be enjoyed for years to come. Choose from a huge range; including a red satin lined gift box, a presentation folder, a cherry wood gift box or even having the newspaper framed.

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.

EXPERTLY PRESENTED

CHOOSE a deluxe gift box to protect this incredible gift for years to come.

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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.