Norfolk Newspapers

Newspapers included both national and local news. The personal columns often included people from outside the immediate area and, especially for people who lived near the boundaries with other counties, it is worth looking in the newspapers for those counties.

Present-day Newspapers
Newspaper Archives

Norfolk Newspapers
Publications

Transcribed Extracts
Newspapers in Adjoining Counties

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Present-day Newspapers

Eastern Daily Press
Eastern Evening News
Other Norfolk Newspapers
Please search on the Archant web site.
Web Wombat's List of Online Newspapers in England

Newspaper Archives

British Library (Colindale) Newspaper Library
Newspapers and periodicals from all over the world, from the 17th to the 21st century, including a searchable catalogue showing title, place of publication, and dates of publication. Note that the newspapers themselves are not available online.
Search for "norfolk" to see the newspapers published since the early 1700s and the parts of the county that they covered.

Norfolk Local History Libraries
The libraries in Norwich, Great Yarmouth, King's Lynn and Thetford have local newspapers.

This is a list of some of the early newspapers at the Local History Library in Norwich. Not all dates are included, and there may be large gaps.

Bury Gazette - 1824-1825
Bury and Norwich Post - 1802-1846
Diss Express - 1866-1954
Downham Gazette - 1880-1922
Eastern Daily Press - 1870 onwards
Eastern Evening Mail - 1906
Eastern Evening News - 1882 onwards
Eastern Morning Gazette - 1902-1904
Eastern Star - 1891-1892
Eastern Weekly Leader - 1894-1896
Norfolk Chronicle - 1776-1955

Norfolk Daily Standard - 1885-1905
Norfolk Monitor - 1845
Norfolk News - 1845-1961
Norwich Argus - 1863-1892
Norwich Gazette - 1706-1712, 1741-1747
Norwich Mercury - 1722-1998
Norwich Post - 1707-1712
Norwich Postman - 1708-1709
Norwich, Yarmouth and Lynn Courier - 1818-1823
Swaffham Journal - 1879
Yarmouth Weekly Standard - 1906

Norfolk Newspapers

Apart from newspapers covering all of Norfolk (such as the Eastern Daily Press, Eastern Evening News, Eastern Weekly Press, Norfolk Chronicle, Norfolk Daily Standard, Norfolk News, and Norfolk Weekly Standard), there were local newspapers for the following towns and their regions. For a full list and dates, search the British Library (Colindale) Newspaper Library catalogue via the link above.

Towns	Examples of Newspapers
Aylsham	Aylsham, Reepham and Foulsham Post
Cromer	Cromer, Sheringham and District Weekly Press
Diss	Diss, Harleston, Bungay, Beccles and Eye Journal
Downham Market	Downham Market Gazette
East Dereham	Dereham and Fakenham Times
Fakenham	Fakenham Post
Great Yarmouth	Yarmouth and Gorleston Times
Holt	Holt, Melton Constable and Wells Post
Hunstanton	Hunstanton News and County Press
King's Lynn	Lynn Advertiser and West Norfolk Herald
North Walsham	North Walsham Post and East Norfolk Standard
Norwich	Norwich Advertiser Norwich Gazette Norwich Mercury
Swaffham	Swaffham Journal
Thetford	Thetford and Watton Times
Wells	Wells Herald
Wymondham	Wymondham and Attleborough Express

Publications

Norfolk Newspapers

Euren, A. D.: History of Norwich Mercury.
The first provincial newspaper: a brief survey of the earliest Norwich newspapers, with facsimile reprints of the Norwich Mercury 1727-1728.
[Norwich, Norwich Mercury, 1924]
Fowler, E. and Payne, M.: The Norwich Post: its contemporaries and successors.
[Norwich, Norfolk News Co., 1951]
Goodwyn, Edwin Alvis: Selections from Norwich newspapers, 1760-1790.
[ISBN 0900227087, Ipswich: East Anglian Magazine Ltd, 1972]
Stedman, R.: Vox populi: the Norfolk newspaper press, 1760-1900.
[ISBN 0900592583, London, Library Association Thesis, 1971]

Lynn Advertiser

Simons, Janice: Marriage and Obituary Notices, extracted from The Lynn Advertiser and West Norfolk Herald.
[1848: ISBN 1873237049, King's Lynn, Norfolk, 1992]
[1851: ISBN 1873237065, King's Lynn, Norfolk, 1994]
Simons, Janice: Marriages and Obituary Notices, extracted from The Lynn Advertiser, Wisbech Constitutional Gazette, and Norfolk & Cambridgeshire Herald.
[1880: ISBN 1873237006, King's Lynn, Norfolk, 1990]
[1881: ISBN 1873237030, King's Lynn, Norfolk, 1991]
[1882: ISBN 1873237057, King's Lynn, Norfolk, 1992]
[1890: ISBN 1873237014, King's Lynn, Norfolk, 1991]
[1900: ISBN 1873237022, King's Lynn, Norfolk, 1991]

Transcribed Extracts

See the separate list of Transcribed Extracts.