Available to our digital subscribers, our fully digitised and searchable newspaper archive contains over 880,000 newspaper pages since 1823.
Read how a Gentleman’s Saints season ticket, with padded seats, in the West Stand at the Dell cost just £2 in 1898 – and how it was only £1 for Ladies!
Search for any key term or date and sort the results by several useful metrics to delve into the history of the club or the city of Southampton.
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More than 230,000 pages online
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The Echo archive has proved hugely popular since its upgrade in 2024, giving readers an unrivalled window into more than 130 years of local history.
Whether you are researching your family tree, revisiting major moments in Southampton’s past, or simply curious about how life used to be, a subscription unlocks the full Echo archive
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Cracking result for Saints here in 1886. Going to be using the term ‘the leather was put through’ in my report at Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday.#SaintsFC pic.twitter.com/QaIEZK6jbh
— Alfie House (@AlfieHouseEcho) February 26, 2026