A project to digitise and place online historic newspaper collection.

http://www.nla.gov.au/ndp/

This extract from the front page of the web site says it all…..

On December 11th, 1858, in the midst of a gold rush, a man with the improbable name Amor de Cosmos inked up an old hand press and launched a newspaper — the British Colonist — into the world.    Published in Victoria, it became the leading paper in the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, and was the paper for the province of British Columbia until the emergence of Vancouver and competitors in the 1890s.

http://britishcolonist.ca/colonist.htm

Papers Past website for New Zealand historic newspapers. Excellent site

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast

Explore two million pages of 19th century newspapers

• Search 49 local and national titles using keywords  
• See your search terms in context  
• View complete articles from the  Penny Illustrated Paper and The Graphic  free of charge 
• OR buy a 24-hour pass for £6.99 allowing you to view up to 100 articles, or a seven-day pass with 200 article views for £9.99  
• OR access the whole site free if you are a member of a subscribing institution 

http://newspapers.bl.uk/blcs/

Richard Heaton has spend many hours compiling this newspaper database. The introduction states that all counties are covered but principally Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, London, Lancashire Middlesex, Surrey, Worcestershire, & Wiltshire. The work is ongoing and Richard is to be thanked by all for such a major effort. I’ve found several of my ancestors, it’s surprising what they got up to!!

 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dutillieul/ZOtherPapers/Index.html