British Newspaper Archive
Experiences & Reviews

My short experience with British Newspapers Archive have been a disappointment. The use of AI seems to have corrupted many of the files I wanted to us...

Was offered a free trial of Newspaper pages 3 free wi...

Simply CANNOT access the 3 free articles despoiire: 1. Registering 2. Speaking to Custiomner Services (Lovely young lady called nicole who tried to he...

I am very frustrated as I have been a member for years on this site and now all of a sudden I cannot get into the site I am trying to change my passwo...

Dealt with my problem...

This is an invaluable source for my research. It's not without fault as some of the scans are not legible or semi legible and it seems odd that there...

I can not thank Joann enough for helping this past week retrieve my account to Britishnewspaperarchives. Thanks to her, I now have access to my a...

WorldPay constantly declines both PayPal payments and Credit Card payments without reason - even after both PayPal and bank apps declare the payments...

This website is expensive more so because the auto-renewal is hard to avoid. The option to stop the subscription auto-renewing is not made clear at si...

This shower use the same auto-renewal trick that many companies now hit you with, but what's worse is that they then hide the steps to canc...

Be very careful using this resource which used to be feely available in libraries. It is very easy to get drawn in on a free search which leads you to...

Appalling Customer Service. Can't process my PayPal Pay As You Go payment. Already taken over a week to deal with the issue. Trying to blame PayPal bu...

Auto-renewal scam. Beware. Absolute disgrace: Just got my BNA subscription renewed for another 3 months, without being told in advance. Their auto-ren...

I like this site. Despite some of the images being illegible I have found lots of interesting articles about my ancestors and ev...

I was excited about signing up and to have access to so many newspapers. However, I found the quality on many of the news papers was unacceptably poor...

Expensive for what you actually get; as others have noted, the quality of some of the images is very poor, being either too dark or too light. Pages h...

Many of the newspapers I signed up to see were unreadable due to poor quality scanning. When I asked for a refund, they refused, citing the fact I'd l...

The Quality of downloaded images is so poor that many of them cannot be read. You can request higher quality images at £30 a go, but it is a complete...

Paid for this on an offer price and they ended my subscription without notice. When I tried to sign back up, I had to pay the full price,...

I recently used the British Newspaper Archive to conduct research on British history for a project I was working on. I must say, it was an amazing experience. The archive is packed with historical newspapers that were easy to access and search.

What stood out to me was the user-friendly interface of the website which made navigation smooth and hassle-free. Also, their powerful search engine allowed me to do quick searches based on keywords or phrases relevant to my research topic, thus saving me lots of time.

The newspaper articles provided in this archives are also very informative and well-preserved- some dating as far back as the 18th century! This added value not only helped build up my research but also gave insights into how people lived day-to-day during those stories periods from their own accounts!

Thanks so much, British Newspaper Archive Team! You have made researching about Britain's history way easier than it ever could be.