Berks FHS Berkshire Newspapers

Berkshire Newspapers

Information about the titles of Newspaper and where they can be seen are listed in a recently published edition of the Gibson Guide "Local Newspapers" compiled by Jeremy GIBSON, Brett LANGSTON & Brenda SMITH (Fedn FHS, 2nd edn, 2002) - also available from from the Berkshire FHS Bookshop.

British Library Newspaper Library at Colindale

Most Newspapers can be seen at the Colindale Newspaper Library in London. In many cases they can also be seen in the relevant Local Studies Library or Record Office.

The following information is taken from the British Library Newspaper on-Line Catalogue at http://prodigi.bl.uk/nlcat/. Details of these (and those of other Newspapers) should always be checked. Not all issues are held by the British Library. Be aware that some papers are variants of another area with only a few changed pages.

Abingdon Area

The Abingdon Herald, Oxford Times and Midland Counties Advertiser 1868-1870

continued as The Abingdon Herald and Wallingford Chronicle 1970
continued as The Reading and Abingdon Herald 1870
continued as The Abingdon and Reading Herald 1870-1883
continued as The Abingdon Herald 1883-1910
continued as The North Berks Herald 1910-1939
continued as North Berks Herald and Didcot Advertiser 1939-1960
continued as North Berks Herald 1961-1974
continued as Abingdon Herald 1974-

The Oxford Messenger and Oxonian Advertiser 1873

continued as The Oxford Messenger, Banbury, Abingdon & Witney Telegraph and Oxonian Advertiser 1874-1876 subsequently discontinued

The Abingdon Christian Record 1874
The Abingdon Monthly Messenger 1875
The Abingdon News and North Berkshire Times 1878-1879

subsequently discontinued

The Abingdon Express, Berks, Bucks, Oxon, Hants and Wilts Observer 1887-1888
Abingdon Free Press and Didcot News 1902-1916
Oxfordshire Free Press, etc 1906-1916
Didcot Advertiser 1961-1974

continued as Didcot Herald 1974-

Wallingford Herald 1961-

Wantage Herald 1962-1981

continued as Wantage & Grove Herald 1981-Courier 1984-1985
continued as South Oxfordshire Courier 1985-1995
continued as Courier (South Oxfordshire edition) 1995-

Bracknell and Ascot Area

The Egham & Staines News and Weekly Journal for Ascot, Sunninghill, etc 1897-1908

subsequently amalgamated with the Surrey Herald

Ascot & Sunningdale Times & Virginia Water Post 1955-1956

continued as Ascot & Sunningdale Times 1956-1957
then incorporated with the Wokingham, Bracknell & Ascot Times

Bracknell Times 1956-1990

incorporated with the Wokingham, Bracknell & Ascot Times, 1957-65

continued as Bracknell & Ascot Times 1990

Bracknell News 1959-
Crowthorne Times 1983-1990

continued as Crowthorne & Sandhurst Times 1990-

Ascot District Observer 1984

continued as Ascot & Sunningdale Observer 1984-

Ascot Times 1984-1990

Maidenhead Area

Maidenhead Express Midweek 1986-1987

continued as Maidenhead Midweek 1987-1988
continued as Maidenhead Express Midweek 1988-1990
continued as Maidenhead, Slough, Windsor Express Midweek 1990-1991

Maidenhead Observer (midweek) 1994-

Newbury Area

The Newbury Journal, Hungerford Gazette, etc 1855-1856
The Newbury Weekly News and West Berks Advertiser 1867-1896

continued as The Newbury Weekly News and General Advertiser, etc. 1873-1901

Reading Herald, Wokingham Herald, Henley Chronicle, Basingstoke News & Thatcham Mercury, etc 1868-1869

continued as Reading Herald, Newbury Telegraph, Oxford Advertiser, Wokingham Herald, etc 1869

subsequently amalgamated with the Abingdon Herald

The Newbury Echo 1876
The Newbury Advertiser and General Newspaper for West Berks 1880-1881
Newbury Express 1886

continued as The Newbury Express and Reading Standard, etc 1886-1892

continued as The Newbury Express, Berks, Hants, Wilts, and Oxon Courier 1892-1899

The Newbury Weekly News and West Berks Advertiser 1869-1873

continued as The Newbury Weekly News and General Advertiser, etc. 1875-1974

continued as Newbury Weekly News 1974-

The Newbury and District Observer 1923-1924
The Newbury & District Free Press 1907-1909
Newbury Chronicle and Hungerford Herald 1910

continued as Newbury Chronicle, Hungerford Herald and Marlborough Mail 1910-1939

The Newbury Advertiser and Local Guide 1926
The Advertiser 1992-

Reading Area

The Reading Mercury, or, Weekly Entertainer 1723-1725

continued as The Reading Mercury and Oxford Gazette, etc. 1767-1831

continued as Reading Mercury, Oxford Gazette and Berkshire County Paper, etc 1831-1839

continued as Reading Mercury, Oxford Gazette, Newsbury Herald and Berks County Paper, etc. 1839-1960

continued as Reading Mercury, etc. 1960-1970

continued as Berkshire Mercury 1970-1979

The Reading Journal 1737-1740
The Reading Journal 1739

continued as The Reading Journal, or, Weekly Review 1744-1748

Berkshire Chronicle 1825-1912

continued as Berkshire Daily Chronicle 1912-1914
continued as Berkshire Chronicle 1914-1961
continued as Reading and Berkshire Chronicle 1961-1965
continued as Reading Chronicle 1965-

The Oxford City & County Chronicle 1837-1842

continued as The Oxford Chronicle and Reading Gazette 1842-1845
continued as Oxford Chronicle and Berks and Bucks Gazette 1845-1929
subsequently incorporated with Oxford Times

Berks Telegraph 1869-1973

subsequently incorporated with Reading Observer

The Reading Examiner, Windsor and Eton Herald, and Berkshire County Chronicle 1872-1874
Berkshire Weekly News 1872
Reading Observer, Berks Telegraph, and Bucks, Hants, Oxfordshire and Surrey Newspaper 1873-1878

continued as Reading Observer 1878-1924

Reading Express and Berkshire Independent, 1879-1884

The Wag 1889 subsequently discontinued
The Bellman, and Royal County's Commentator for Reading, etc. 1891
The North Berks Standard 1906
The Reading & County Times 1909-1910

subsequently discontinued

Reading Record 1912-1913

subsequently discontinued

The Caversham Observer 1923-1924

Reading Citizen 1924-1952
The Reading Co-operator 1932-1935

subsequently discontinued

Reading Review 1935-1949

continued as Reading & Berkshire Review 1949-1953

continued as Berkshire & Reading Review 1954

Evening Gazette 1935-1938

continued as Reading Gazette 1939

Berkshire Co-operative Leader 1939-1940

Berkshire Chronicle (Country edition) 1947-1961

continued as Reading and Berkshire Chronicle 1961-1965

continued as Reading Chronicle 1965-1967
subsequently discontinued

Reading Standard (Bracknell, Wokingham & Twyford edition) 1963-1965

subsequently discontinued

Reading Standard (Henley, South Oxon, Upper Thames edition) 1963-1965
Reading Standard (Thatcham, Tadley, Theale area) 1963-1965

subsequently discontinued

Evening Post 1965-1994

continued as Reading Evening Post 1994-

Reading Chronicle (midweek) 1986-
South Oxfordshire Chronicle 1987-

Slough Area

The Slough, Eton & Windsor Observer, etc. 1883-1953

continued as Slough Observer, Windsor and Eton Observer, etc. 1953-1974
continued as Slough Eton & Windsor Observer 1974-1990
continued as Slough & Langley Observer 1990-

The Windsor, Slough and Eton Express (Slough edition) 1958-1983

continued as Slough, Windsor & Eton Express 1983-1984
continued as Slough, Windsor, Ascot & Eton Express 1984-1986
continued as Slough Express 1986-1994
continued as Slough & Langley Express 1994-

South Bucks Observer 1984-
Slough Midweek Express 1986

continued as Slough Express Midweek 1986-1990
continued as Express Midweek (Slough edition) 1990
continued as Slough, Windsor, Maidenhead Express Midweek 1990-1991

Langley Express 1986-1994

continued as Langley & Iver Express 1994

Windsor Area

The Windsor and Eton Express, etc. 1812-1908

continued as Windsor, Eton & Slough Express, etc. 1909-1928
continued as Windsor, Slough & Eton Express, etc. 1928-1984
continued as Windsor, Slough, Ascot & Eton Express 1984-1986
continued as Windsor Express 1986-1991
continued as Windsor and Eton Express 1991-

The Surrey Standard, and Surrey, Middlesex, Sussex, Kent, Hants & Berks Advertiser 1835-1837

continued as Surrey & Middlesex Standard, and Agricultural, Commercial, and General Advertiser 1837-1840
continued as Surrey Standard, Windsor and Eton Journal and Middlesex Herald, etc 1840

Windsor & Eton Journal, and Middlesex Herald 1839-1841

subsequently incorporated with the Bucks Herald

Windsor, Eton and Slough Royal Standard 1861-1864

continued as Berkshire Standard 1864-1865

The Windsor and Eton News, and Slough Observer, etc 1866-1867
Windsor and Eton Herald and Home Counties Advertiser 1868

continued as Windsor and Eton Herald and Slough Journal 1869-1870
continued as Windsor and Eton Herald, Maidenhead and Slough Journal, and Berkshire County Chronicle 1871-1872
ontinued as the Reading Examiner, Windsor and Eton Herald and Berkshire County Chronicle (see under Reading)

Windsor, Eton, & Slough Advertiser, and Register for Domestic Servants, etc 1871-1872
The Windsor Gazette, and Eton College Journal 1874-1884

continued as Windsor and Eton Gazette, Slough and Maidenhead Chronicle 1884-1895

The Royal Press 1874-1876

subsequently discontinued

The Reading Examiner, Windsor and Eton Herald, and Berkshire County Chronicle 1872-1874
The Windsor Advertiser 1889-1892

The Windsor Chronicle, Eton, Slough, Clewer, Datchet, and Ascot Record 1895-1906
Windsor Chronicle 1910-1939
Windsor & East Berks Observer 1983-1990

continued as Windsor & Maidenhead Observer 1990
continued as Windsor & Eton Observer 1990-

The Leader 1983

continued as The Slough & Windsor Leader 1983-1986

Ascot, Windsor, Slough & Eton Express 1984-1986

continued as Ascot Express 1986-

Observer Midweek (Slough, Windsor, Maidenhead) 1985

continued as Windsor & Maidenhead Observer (midweek edition) 1985-1994
ontinued, in part, by the Maidenhead Observer (Midweek).

Royal Borough Messenger 1989-1990

Windsor & Ascot Express Midweek 1986

continued as Windsor Express Midweek 1986-1989

Windsor on Friday 1992-
Windsor & Eton Leader 1994-

Wokingham Area

Wokingham & Bracknell Gazette and County Review 1903-1904

continued as Wokingham, Bracknell & Crowthorne Gazette, etc. 1904-1905
continued as Wokingham, Bracknell & East Berks Gazette 1905
continued as East Berks Gazette, etc. 1906-1914
continued as Berkshire Gazette 1914-1927
continued as The Wokingham Gazette and Berkshire County Advertiser 1927-1930
continued as Wokingham Times and Weekly News 1930-1939
continued as Wokingham, Bracknell & Ascot Times & Weekly News 1939-1942
continued as Times & Weekly News 1942-1948
continued as East Berkshire Times & Weekly News 1948
continued as Times & Weekly News 1948
continued as Wokingham, Bracknell & Ascot Times & Weekly News 1948-1949
continued as Wokingham & Bracknell Times 1950-1956
continued as Wokingham Times 1956-1957
continued as Wokingham, Bracknell & Ascot Times 1957-1959
continued as Wokingham & Bracknell, Woodley & Ascot Times 1959-1965
continued as Wokingham Times 1965-

Wokingham and Bracknell Free Press and Forest Division News 1903-1904

subsequently amalgamated with Berkshire Chronicle

Wokingham Chronicle and East Berks Advertiser 1912

subsequently discontinued

Wokingham & Bracknell, Woodley & Ascot Times (Ascot & Virginia Water edition) 1960
Wokingham & Bracknell, Woodley & Ascot Times (Bracknell & district edition) 1960

The Berkshire Chronicle 1971-1975
Woodley & Earley Times 1986-1991


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