50th Birthday Newspapers

Finding the right gift for any occasion is challenging at the best of times, especially when marking such an important milestone. The charm of a personalized 50th birthday newspaper is down to one single detail; the recipient’s date of birth becomes the focal point of the gift, bringing with it a rare glimpse into the past. Have you ever wondered what happened just 50 years ago when you were born? Which famous icon do I share a birthday with? What significant event made the headline on my birth date? The questions are as limitless as the newspaper dates available to answer them. Offering regional, national and even discontinued newspaper titles, your gift is tailored from the offset.

Search our archive of original old newspapers

Let our archivist don their specs and rifle through the stacks, to retrieve the exact newspaper you’re after.

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FROM £39.99

50th Birthday Newspapers as Gifts

Including popular newspaper titles such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Dallas Morning News and much more, you get to choose the headline of your 50th birthday keepsake. The newspaper you select will be accompanied by a personalized certificate of authenticity guaranteeing the age of the paper itself, validated by one of our archivists.

Since our archives span as far back as the 1900s, the newspapers are protected under the necessary conditions to preserve the content, from the warehouse straight to your door. To add even more value to your 50th birthday gift you can present the newspaper in a variety of keepsake cases and gift packs too, to give them a memento like no other.

Our passion for history shows

3 million old newspapers in the archive.

100s of newspaper titles.

Authentic, original papers. Not copies.

History in your hands

Ships within days of ordering

Add a presentation gift box

A gift they won’t be expecting

Forget flowers. Sidestep the sock aisle. An original newspaper to commemorate a date from your recipient’s past is a memory that’ll last.

EXPERTLY PRESENTED

CHOOSE a deluxe gift box to protect this incredible gift for years to come.

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PRESERVED IN THE WORLD’S LARGEST PRIVATE ARCHIVE

Your newspaper will come from the echoing halls of the Historic Newspapers archive in Western Scotland, overseen by our team of ten archivists.

SELECTED AND RESTORED BY HAND

After you make your order, an archivist examines your paper, page by page. The paper is pressed flat and any flaws are rectified with archival repair tape.

PERSONALISED, PRESENTED AND DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR

Choose a gift box, and if you wish, add a bottle of the recipient’s favourite drink. However you choose to personalise your gift, it’ll be delivered within five days.

insights from our archivist

These aren’t replicas. They’re the actual newspapers that sat on newsstands up to 125 years ago. The one you buy could be the last copy in existence.

Prices can vary for several reasons, like popularity of a specific day, whether the paper is local or national, the paper’s age, and the number of copies left.

Missing papers give us a window into history. If a paper isn’t available for the date you’re after, it could be because that newspaper was on strike during the period.

FLYING OFF THE NEWSSTANDS

Bestsellers leave public ‘clamouring for copies’, reports suggest.