Irish Newspaper Archives is a subscription site which is available to use for no charge within the State Library of Western Australia building and from home for SLWA members. It has more than 6 million pages in over 500,000 issues of newspapers from all over Ireland with the earliest dating from 1763.
http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=e1001672~S2
The Illustrated London News is a subscription site which is available to use for no charge within the State Library of Western Australia building and from home for SLWA members. Search over 150 years (1842-2003) of British and world events in this weekly illustrated newspaper.
http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=e1001682~S2
Nineteenth Century US Newspapers is a subscription site which is available to use for no charge within the State Library of Western Australia building and from home for SLWA members. It includes hundreds of urban and rural newspapers from throughout the United States.
http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=e1001876~S2
17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers is a subscription site which is available to use for no charge within the State Library of Western Australia building and from home for SLWA members. It is a collection of newspapers, pamphlets and parliamentary papers originally collected by the Reverend Charles Burney. The material was published in England, Ireland and Scotland with some from British colonies in Asia and the Americas.
http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=e1000327~S2
The British Newspaper Archive is a subscription site which is available to use for no charge within the State Library of Western Australia (SLWA) building. It consists of millions of pages of digitised historical newspapers from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales held at the British Library. You can register so that you can save searches, create lists and correct text in a similar way to Australia's Trove website. Select parts 1 -5 from the "content set" on the search page to search across all databases.
http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/find/eresources/a2z/B/british_newspaper_archive
19th Century British Library Newspapers is the old name for British Library Newspapers Parts I-V. This is a subscription site which is available to use for no charge within the State Library of Western Australia (SLWA) building and from home for SLWA members. It includes newspaper titles 1800-1900 from all over the UK. Select parts 1 -5 from the "content set" on the search page to search across all databases.
http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=e1001959~S2
Gale News Vault is a subscription site which is available to use for no charge within the State Library of Western Australia building or from home for SLWA members. It offers combined searching of 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers, 19th Century British Newspapers, Times Digital Archive and the Illustrated London News.
http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=e1001932~S2
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is a subscription site which is available to use for no charge within the State Library of Western Australia building and from home for SLWA members. It includes over 58,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond.
http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=e1001844~S2
Ancestry.com is a subscription site with worldwide content. The library edition is available to use for no charge within the building of the State Library of Western Australia and at most public libraries in Western Australia. Top content includes Australian electoral rolls, Australian passenger lists, convict material, UK census 1841-1901, UK birth, marriage and death indexes 1837-2005, UK National Probate Calendar 1861-1941, British phone books 1880-1984, London parish records, New Zealand electoral rolls 1853-1981, United States census, Canadian census and much more. The commercial (non library) version at www.ancestry.com includes publicly submitted material such as family trees and photographs.
http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=e1000219~S2
Australian Public Affairs Full Text is a subscription site which is available to use for no charge within the State Library of Western Australia building and from home for SLWA members. It is not a family history resource but it does include journals published by various Australian genealogical and historical societies such as Early Days (Royal Western Australian Historical Society) and Descent (Society of Australian Genealogists).
http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=e1001668~S2
Findmypast is a subscription site which is available to use for no charge within the State Library of Western Australia building. It contains material relating to the United Kingdom and Ireland and all Australian states and New Zealand with a small amount of content for the Pacific Islands and Papua New Guinea. The Australian states with the largest amount of material are Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. Content includes passenger lists, almanacs, Blue Books, electoral rolls, government gazettes, police gazettes and post office directories. The Ireland section includes will indexes, directories, cemetery transcriptions, land records and more. The largest collection is Irish prison records which includes information on over 3.5 million people. Most coverage for the United Kingdom is for England and Wales, including 1841-1911 census records. Census transcriptions for Scotland for 1841 through to 1901 are also available. Top content includes births, marriages and deaths including overseas BMDs, armed forces BMDs and BMDs at sea; UK outgoing passenger lists 1890-1960 and British Army service records (also known as Chelsea Pensioner records) 1760-1913.
http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=e1001846~S2
The Times Digital Archive is a subscription site which is available to use for no charge within the State Library of Western Australia building and from home for SLWA members. The Times is a leading newspaper publication from the UK with coverage of overseas material as well as happenings in the UK.
http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=e1000328~S2
The West Australian Digital Archive is a subscription site which is available to use within the State Library building. Search the West Australian newspaper which is reproduced in full colour from July 2004 until yesterday.
http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=e1001654~S2
