National Library Board (NLB) catalogues digitised newspaper articles that are at least seventy years old, released as dozens of CSV metadata files by title and year range. The collection spans colonial-era and mid-twentieth-century Singapore and regional titles such as Malaya Tribune and Pinang Gazette. Historians, genealogists, and digital-humanities projects can discover which runs are available before visiting NLB platforms. Enquiries on access and rights go to [email protected].
This dataset is a list of digitised newspaper articles published 70 years ago or longer from the National Library, Singapore. These materials present a valuable resource on Singapore’s history, art and culture, digitised as part of an endeavour to preserve and provide better access to resources located within the library to enable users to explore and discover these resources. For enquiries, please email [email protected]
National Library Board CSV of digitised Morning Tribune newspaper articles from 1946 to 1949, with issue and page identifiers, article titles, opening text, and contributors. Historians and heritage researchers search post-war Singapore press coverage via NLB’s digitised archive. Enquiries: [email protected].
National Library Board CSV listing digitised articles from the Straits Chinese Herald (1894), with newspaper title, issue and page identifiers, edition, article title, contributor, and opening text snippets. Coverage aligns to NLB’s open-access newspaper programme for materials at least 70 years old. Historians and genealogists explore Singapore’s late-19th-century press and community voices. Enquiries: [email protected].
National Library Board CSV of digitised articles from the Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle for 1879, part of NLB’s open newspaper corpus published 70 years ago or longer. Columns cover newspaper title, issue and page identifiers, dates, article titles, first-50-word text snippets, and contributors. Historians and digital-humanities users search colonial-era Straits press. Enquiries: [email protected].
National Library Board CSV catalogue of digitised Malaya Tribune articles from 1934 to 1938, with issue, page, title, contributor, and text snippet fields. Historians studying interwar Singapore and Malayan public discourse use this NLB newspaper corpus. Enquiries: [email protected].
National Library Board CSV of digitised Malayan Saturday Post articles from 1924 to 1928, with issue metadata, titles, contributors, and opening text. Cultural historians exploring leisure and periodical culture in colonial Malaya rely on this NLB open dataset. Enquiries: [email protected].
National Library Board CSV catalogue of digitised articles from The Straits Echo (Mail Edition) covering 1922 to 1926, listing issues, pages, titles, contributors, and article text snippets. Supports historical research on colonial-era Singapore and Malayan press. Enquiries: [email protected].
National Library Board CSV catalogue of digitised articles from The Straits Echo (Mail Edition) covering 1917 to 1920, with issue, page, title, contributor, and opening-text fields. Historians and journalists researching early twentieth-century Malaya and Singapore use this open-access newspaper corpus. Enquiries: [email protected].
National Library Board CSV catalogue of digitised articles from the Malaya Tribune covering 1914 to 1918, with issue, page, and article metadata from National Library Singapore collections published 70 years ago or longer. Historians research World War I–era Malayan and Singapore press; enquiries: [email protected].
National Library Board CSV catalogue of digitised articles from Comrade (1946), with newspaper title, issue, page, and article identifiers from National Library Singapore collections published 70 years ago or longer. Historians explore post-war Singapore and Malayan press; enquiries: [email protected].
National Library Board CSV catalogue of digitised articles from the Prince of Wales Island Gazette for 1833, with issue, page, and article identifiers from National Library Singapore collections published 70 years ago or longer. Historians research early Penang and Straits Settlements journalism; enquiries: [email protected].
National Library Board CSV index of digitised Malaya Tribune newspaper articles from 1919 to 1923, with issue metadata, article titles, first-50-word excerpts, and contributors. Researchers explore interwar Malayan press history through NLB digitised holdings (70+ years old). Enquiries: [email protected].
National Library Board CSV index of digitised Straits Echo newspaper articles from 1910 to 1914, with issue and article identifiers, titles, first-50-word excerpts, and contributors. Historians search early twentieth-century Straits press coverage preserved by NLB (materials published 70+ years ago). Enquiries: [email protected].
National Library Board CSV index of digitised Indian Daily Mail newspaper articles from 1949 through 1953, with issue metadata, page numbers, and article titles. Supports early post-war Singapore and Indian community press research in NLB’s heritage programme. Enquiries: [email protected].
National Library Board CSV catalogue of digitised Straits Daily Advertiser articles from 1900, with newspaper title, issue and page identifiers, article titles, and opening text snippets. Supports turn-of-the-century Singapore press discovery. Enquiries: [email protected].
National Library Board CSV catalogue of digitised Morning Tribune newspaper articles from 1936 through 1941, with issue, page, and article metadata. Historians locate pre–World War II Singapore English-press coverage in NLB’s heritage digitisation programme. Enquiries: [email protected].
National Library Board CSV index of digitised Sunday Tribune (Singapore) newspaper articles from 1938 through 1941, with issue dates, page and article identifiers, titles, and contributor metadata. Supports late-colonial Singapore press research within NLB’s open historical newspapers programme. Enquiries: [email protected].
National Library Board CSV index of digitised The Penang Times newspaper articles from 1882, with issue dates, page and article identifiers, and related metadata. Supports late-19th-century Straits Settlements press research within NLB’s heritage digitisation programme. Enquiries: [email protected].
This National Library Board dataset indexes digitised articles from The Straits Maritime Journal and General News for 1895 and 1896, part of NLB's release of newspapers published 70 years ago or longer. Each row captures the newspaper title, issue id and issue date, edition, page id and page number, article id and article title, the opening fifty words of the article, and the contributor. The title's short two-year run makes this a compact but focused window into late nineteenth-century shipping and general news reporting in the Straits Settlements. Historians, maritime researchers and digital humanities projects use it for keyword discovery and for assembling text corpora from Singapore's colonial-era press.
This National Library Board dataset indexes digitised newspaper articles from the Straits Echo published between 1905 and 1909, part of NLB's programme to open up newspapers more than 70 years old. Each record identifies the newspaper title, issue id and issue date, edition, page id and page number, article id and article title, the first fifty words of the article text, and the contributing institution. The first-fifty-words field makes the collection searchable by keyword without opening every scan, which is helpful for locating coverage of a particular person, place or event. Historians, genealogists, students and digital humanities researchers use it to trace early twentieth-century news coverage and to build text-mining corpora.
National Library Board CSV index of digitised Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle articles from 1936 through 1941, with issue metadata, page numbers, and article titles. Supports late-colonial and World War II–era Southeast Asian newspaper research from NLB Singapore. Enquiries: [email protected].