Dutch Studies

Belgium

Belgium

Netherlands

Netherlands

Front pages of daily newspapers from all over the world. Click on Europe on the menu bar above the gallery.

In 2004, the Royal Library of Belgium, in conjunction with the Center for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society, launched this digital collection of Belgian newspapers collected from federal centers. The total number of pages is expected to reach three million, from over 30 separate titles, spanning the period from 1831 to 1950. Titles include: L'Indépendance Belge, L'Avenir du Luxembourg, and Almanach d’Uylenspiegel.

Features 2 million digitised newspapers, dating from 1618 until 1995. Some of the files can be freely accessed and downloaded.

Digital archive of this independent Dutch weekly news magazine. Includes the first 64 volumes, from 1877-1940.

Digital copies of forbidden printings, 1940-1945. Included is a collection of the underground newspapers from WWII in the Tresoar collection. A majority of this collection is from the 'Verzetsmuseum Friesland' (the Friesian museum of the Resistance). Two publications have been scanned in full (B.B.C. Nieuws and de V 3). Some titles carry a reference to the central catalogue (OPC). Links to other sites with underground newspapers are included.

Gemeentarchief Roermond (a municipality in southeastern Netherlands) offers a digital archive of regional newspapers covering the period 1856-1936. Titles currently include De Roermondenaar (1855-1920), De Volksvriend (1859-1880), Het Nieuwsblad van Roermond (1856-1879), De Maas en Roerbode (1856-1904), De Nieuwe Koerier (1887-1913), De Nieuwe Koerier/Maas-en Roerbode (1906-1930), De Maas-en Roerbode (1856-1904), and other shorter runs. The archive includes nearly 60,000 pages, open to the public.

A catalog that can locate print, microfilm or digitized copies of newspapers.

Browseable by date.

A complete run of the oldest continuously published newspaper in the Netherlands, dating from 1752 to the present.