Please note the newspapers are not indexed, so without a date a specific search is likely to be time consuming. The newspapers are a rich source of local interest and historical flavour in their own right.
Newspapers we hold include:
- Bridport News: June 1855 to July 2000
- (1898 and 1911 are missing)
- Dorset County Chronicle: 1824 to 1957
- Dorset Evening Echo: May 1921 to the present day
- Dorset Mail: 1928 to 1932
- East Dorset Herald: 1898 to 1918
- Poole and Dorset Herald: 1846 to 1939
- (The following years are missing: 1855-1860, 1904-1905, 1910-1911, 1918, 1930-1938)
- Sherborne Mercury/Western Flying Post: 1737-1867
- Southern Times: 1870 to 1940
- Swanage Times: 1919 to 1936
- Western Gazette: 1963 only, Jan 1988 to October 2003
If you are interested in other Dorset newspapers, please contact us: