Hungarian Historical News Sources

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Arcanum Digitheca (Arcanum Database Ltd.)
This paid database offers free access to selections from 7 newspapers: Kossuth Hirlapja (July-December 1848), Vasárnapi Ujság (1867, 1914), Pesti Hírlap (September 1939), Népsport (November 1953), Szabad Nép (October 1956), Népszava (October 1989), and Világgazdaság (May 2004).
DigiTéka (Transylvanian Digital Library)
16 Hungarian dailies and weeklies from Transylvania published during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Elektronikus Periodika Archívum és Adatbázis = The National Electronic Periodicals Archive and Database (National Széchenyi Library)
Includes 523 items under "News, news services; Politics in general (politics, daily newspaper, news, advertisement)” from 19-20th centuries.
Magyar Elektronikus Könyvtár = The Hungarian Electronic Library (Hungaricana)
Dozens of local Hungarian newspapers (19-20th centuries) from various libraries.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Hungarian Radio Monitoring (Open Society Archives)
Digital copies of 1,072 "verbatim transcripts of daily news programs," prepared by Hungarian Monitoring Unit of RFE/RL and "broadcast on two Hungarian state radio stations, Kossuth and Petőfi, from January 1, 1988 to December 31, 1990."

Vera and Donald Blinken Papers (Open Society Archives)
The files of the former US Ambassador to Hungary (1994–1997) contain 166 digital versions of color photos taken by official, press corps photographers, documenting his meetings with numerous Hungarian political figures as well as President George H.W. Bush’s visit to Hungary (1989).
Árpád Ajtony Personal Papers (Open Society Archives)
The “found footage” collection of the French-based, Hungarian-born, émigré writer and actor (1944-2013) includes two English-language newsreels with images of the “new water facilities in Hungary” (ca. 1975) and US Defense Secretary “Donald Rumsfeld's testimony on Capitalism and Communism” at the United Nations (ca. 1975).

Arcanum Digitheca (Arcanum Database Ltd.)
This database of 3,845 Hungarian publications allows non-paying customers to search within the contents of 402 newspaper titles, 215 sectoral newspapers, and 49 emigrant newspapers. Snippets of the search results are available for free, but access to full-text version requires paid subscription.
Hungarian Newspapers and Other Materials from the 1956 Revolution (Library of Congress)
List of 44 newspaper titles microfilmed at LC ca. 1960: Miscellaneous Hungarian Newspapers from the 1956 Revolution (26 titles) and A Collection of Hungarian Newspapers and Pamphlets Published during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (18 titles).
Catalog of the National Audiovisual Archive = Nemzeti Audiovizuális Archívum (NAVA)
The database of the digital legal deposit archive (NAVA) includes catalog records for locally-produced programs of Hungarian television channels and radio stations. The content described in these catalog records, however, can only be accessed via a dedicated service network (“NAVA workstations”) operating at local libraries, museums, audiovisual archives, and educational institutions.