How to access 20th century Glasgow newspapers online

For whatever reason, the British Newspaper Archive seems incapable or unwilling to add more content to its site for Glasgow in the 20th century, perhaps because of rights issues. Only three years of the Glasgow Evening Times are available (1966, 1967, 1973), and some early 20th C editions of the Glasgow Observer and Catholic Herald.

However, you can access 20th century content online from the Bulletin and Scots Pictorial, the Glasgow Herald and the Glasgow Evening Times via the Google News Archive at https://news.google.co.uk/newspapers, as well as the late 18th century Glasgow Advertiser, free of charge. The coverage is as follows:

• Bulletin and Scots Pictorial (1951–1960)
• Glasgow Herald (1806–1990)
• Evening Times (1953–1990, plus three earlier editions in 1914 and 1933)
• Glasgow Advertiser (1783–1801)

The Bulletin and Scots Pictorial is listed simply on Google's list as Bulletin, but notes that coverage is apparently only available from 2 Jan 1957–28 Feb 1957. This is incorrect – a run of the paper is in fact available online from 1951–1960. The easiest way to access the entire Bulletin collection is to simply click the following link: https://bit.ly/BulletinScotsPictorial.

That's the good news. The bad news is that the search facility of this Google site is truly appalling, and to be honest, in my opinion you're actually better off just browsing for content. But at least it is there, and that's better than no access! 

Chris

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