Papers Past

Until the late 1970's most Libraries kept a daily newspaper for their Reference Department and stored them in big bound volumes. Over the years these volumes took up lots of space and when newspapers on microfilm became available many volumes were disposed of enabling the Libraries to save space.

I founded Papers Past in March 1981 and began acquiring collections of newspapers from Libraries, Government Departments and Private Collectors. Thus the Papers Past Newspaper Archive was established all those years ago. It now exceeds 200 tons of carefully preserved newspapers held in storage facilities across West Cornwall.

I adore newspapers and I give regular talks about them to local clubs and W.I. groups. Sometimes I can be found deep in the Newspaper Storage Vaults reading articles and old adverts by torchlight when really I should be moving stocks around or tidying up.