Hertfordshire Newspapers
and other sources of Hertfordshire News
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The Gentleman's Magazine was published between 1731 and 1922. It contains many items relating to Hertfordshire, including birth, marriage, bankruptcy and death notices. Its Hertfordshire entries have been reprinted in book form.
The Times is an indexed national daily newspaper first published in 1785
The County Chronicle and Weekly Advertiser for Essex, Herts, Kent, Surrey, Middlesex, &c was first published in 1788 but appears to have ceased covering Hertfordshire in 1841.
The Observer is a national Sunday newspaper, first published in 1791 with digital archives.
The Guardian - a national newspaper with digital archives online from 1821
Hertford and Ware Patriot was a radical paper published in Hertford 1833-1835.
Aylesbury News (later Bucks Advertiser) was first published in 1836 by John Gibbs. It was later edited by John's son Robert, who published a number of historical works on Buckinghamshire. One of these Buckinghamshire Local Occurrences (issued in four volumes) includes a fair number of references to Hertfordshire events.
The Illustrated London News for a London based publication, first published in 1842, which frequently included Hertfordshire items, with illustrations at a time when these were virtually unknown in the local press.
Buckinghamshire Advertiser covers the area around Uxbridge. It was founded in 1853 and had various titles. Initially it covered Rickmansworth and Watford, but later Watford papers will be a better choice.
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The St Albans Times & Herts Advertiser was founded by Robert Gibbs (brother of John Gibbs) in 1855, and the business later expanded, first as the publishers Gibbs & Bamforth, and later as Home Counties Newspapers Ltd. Its history is recorded in the book Family Group.
The Royston Crow was launched in 1855.
Herts & Essex Observer was founded in 1861 and was printed in Bishop's Stortford.
Leighton Buzzard Observer first published in 1861, with an online index which includes a useful number of Hertfordshire references.
Penny Illustrated Paper was a national paper published between 1861 and 1913. It has been scanned and a online index is available and contains some useful Hertfordshire references, often with illustrations.
Watford Observer has been published from 1863
Hemel Hempstead Gazette has been published since 1867
Hertfordshire Standard was published in St Albans between 1877 and 1907.
The Herts Illustrated Review was a monthly magazine, published in 1893, which folded after one year.
The St Albans Clock Tower was published between 1895 and 1897
Watford Illustrated started to be published in 1914 and is a valuable source for local information at the start of the First World War, but only lasted for 80 issues.
Hertfordshire Countryside - a magazine first published in 1946 on a quarterly basis, later monthly, which contains a significant amount of information on Hertfordshire history
There are temporary pages, which will be updated later for the Bucks Gazette, Bucks Herald, Hertfordshire Express, Hertfordshire Mercury, Pictorial Times
See Modern Hertfordshire Newspapers
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Page updated February 2008