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Resource of the Week Archive

Resource
of the Week
22 September - 28 September 2018

Google News Archive Search

Google News Archive offers a wealth of digitised historic newspapers online—many of them for free. The Google newspaper archive project was discontinued by Google many years ago but, although they stopped digitising and adding new papers the historical newspapers that were previously digitised remain.

How it maps to the curriculum

3-4
5-6
SESE History

Strand: Useful Websites

Strand: Story

Google News Archive Search image

Why is it Resource of the Week?

  1. Presented in an easy to navigate timeline format.
  2. Easy to search to by date or keyword.
  3. Familiarises pupils with working on archives.
  4. Helps pupils to hone their skill of working as a historian.
  5. Provides a primary source of historical material.
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