Leiden newspaper archive available

The Digital Newspaper Archive of the Regionaal Archief Leiden (Leiden Regional Archives) is now available in the Digital Library and the Catalogue. You can search the archive for old volumes of Leiden newspapers.

The project to scan Leiden newspapers for the Digital Newspaper Archive is not finished yet, but a large number of newspapers and volumes can be searched digitally already:

Leidsche Courant
1.      1870 – 1890 (29.066 p.)
2.      1922 – 1932 (29.936 p.)
3.      1980 – 1987 (49.602 p.) 

Leidse Courant
1.      1961 (562 p.)
2.      1987 – 1992 (33.399 p.)

Nieuwe Leidsche Courant
1.      1920 – 1941 (56.510 p.)
2.      1945 – 1975 (120.867 p.)
3.      1977 (1.682 p.)
4.      1979 – 1980 (76 p.)

Leidsch Dagblad
1.      1704 (5 p.)
2.      1860 – 1944 (215.909 p.)
3.      1946 – 1951 (11.025 p.)
4.      1960 – 1961 (8.839 p.)
5.      1980 – 2005 (201.180 p.)
6.      2009 (13 p.)

Trouw
1.      1918 – 1921 (48 p.)
2.      1924 – 1925 (20 p.)
3.      1947 (4 p.)
4.      1975 – 1980 (40.591 p.)

Leydse Courant
1.      1720 – 1732 (3.302 p.)
2.      1734 – 1824 (32.949 p.)
3.      1992 (560 p.)

Advertentien, Aankondigingen en Berigten van Leyden
1.      1812 – 1813 (1.090 p.)

Hollandsche Courant
1.      1795 (372 p.)

Leydsche Courant
1.      1824 – 1869 (26.597 p.)

Dagblad voor Leiden en Omstreken
1.      1944 – 1945 (858 p.)

Consulting

You can consult the Digital Newspaper Archive via the Digital Library. If you are consulting the database from a computer outside the library, you need your ULCN login details (provided to students and staff at Leiden University).

Need help?

On the website of the library you will find more information about and a manual for the use of the Digital Library.