Our mission is to be the leading source of historic news from the 18th to 20th Century. We aim to provide researchers with high quality text searchable images, so that users surface relevant information with less effort..  

We have digital images from the largest private collection of the Police Gazette newspapers - both those published in London and Dublin. The collection runs from the early 1800's until the 1950's. 

At Lastchancetoread, we are proud to make our collections available to the research community. We believe that historic newspapers are unmatched in connecting us and with the lives lived by ancestors and are an untapped resource for anyone studying historic criminology.