Historic Newspapers Reviews 

Ordered Dec. 1 for a Christmas gift and they ship with the cheapest option, UPS Mail Innovations (no other option available). Gift is stuck in a warehouse close to me but won't be delivered until shipping volume goes down. When I reached out they didn't care, "just tell us if you don't get it and we will refund you". Awful.

Ordered as a Christmas present. The quality of the custom book is awful. It arrived pre-torn around the top of the binding and the pages weren't glued in square to the cover. The inside of the covers where the pages are glued in was also permanently creased. Absolutely not worth the price I paid and they need to sort their quality control out.

The quality & content is very poor the paper that it is printed on is cheap. Could not read some of the content, pages contain very little about subject had a lot of ads and fillers. I bought this as a gift. I am too embarrassed to give to the recipient.

Horrible customer service! I paid for express shipping on my order 12/12/2025, when I didn’t see my order move I spoke with Skye on 12/18/2025. I was told that there would be a delay and that the order would ship in 3-5 days with upgraded shipping.

Skye was VERY DISHONEST because I was sent a tracking number that had UPS ground shipping. I paid an extra $19.99 for express shipping so where did the upgrade go, because standard shipping is $14.99. If there were truly an upgrade this wouldn’t be taken 7 days to get to me and be arriving 5 days after Christmas.

I would not have wasted $180 on a Christmas gift that I am unable to give to the recipient because of this company inept management and customer service.

I didn't actually get a product from here. I attempted to order during their black Friday sale but their codes were bogus and wouldn't work. I went to order one anyway after the sale, and they jacked their prices up 20% from their normal prices. Seems like a scam of a company to me.

Stay far far away from this company, their quality and handling of products is so far from satisfactory. Their “tried and tested” packaging is just cardboard, not an ounce of bubble wrap or protection insight, especially for the foil printed items.

I’ve received damaged items both first order and replacement order, I’m done.

As other people have said, very cool idea but if you can’t nail basics things like handling of products with care and precision printing you shouldn’t be doing this work.

My Nottingham Forest one came yesterday, it’s a present for someone this Christmas. Paid extra for the foil blocking, gift box and personalisation but lacks the quality I expected. Paid £90odd with the extras.

Working in the print trade for over 30years I wasn’t happy with the casing in, the front is warped, the foil blocking has spread and just readable. I think it’s a cheap digital foil if I’m honest. The alignment of the title text isn’t centre. The content was less than I expected also, early years is very diluted.

The idea is great, the quality of the end product wouldn’t get out the factory for the company I work for. Save your money paying for any extras with this.

The plus is I got it when expected.

I ordered this as a birthday gift for my father, and the package has been lost. Customer service is not helpful at all and now I'm out $80. I'm extremely disappointed and didn't have anything to give for my dad on his birthday this year. So thanks!

I ordered this as a Christmas gift. It’s advertised to be a book of news articles about one specific team. Well it’s not, it’s a whole bunch of different team articles. Customer service was also horrible. I have tried to email them several times with no response. Do not order this.

I hold my hands up. I made a mistake. I ordered a Historic Newspaper book for the wrong football club. I placed the order and instantly received the confirmation email timed at 1408.

I immediately realised my mistake and replied to the confirmation email explaining this and asking to merely switch my order from one team to another (no other material changes). I have not requested any personalisation (name etc) for the item.

I received an email confirming receipt of that email at 1411; exactly 3 minutes after the order confirmation had been received.

This of course can all be proven via my email log.

I received a response at 1745 from customer services saying “Each of our Newspaper Books is made to order, which means that soon after completing your order our workshop is notified of the details and the process to print, trim, bind, and cure each book begins. As this process is entirely automated, we're unfortunately not able to make any changes to the details you've provided or selected while placing your order, nor are we able to cancel the order.”

I accept I made a mistake but will not accept that within 3 minutes or even within 2.5hrs it took someone to read and reply to my cancellation order, that they had started to print, trim, bind and cure the book!

If the company provided a customer services telephone number I could have spoken to someone within minutes of placing the order and got it changed.

Really poor customer service during what is meant to be the season of goodwill. Feels like it’s a company being run by bots and AI and not humans.

If anyone wants a Crystal Palace let me know. I shan’t be reordering the correct book, nor the multitude of other books I intended to order once I’d received the first one and was satisfied with it.

I ordered the personalized Birthday Book for an 80th birthday gift, and I couldn't be happier! The order was processed and shipped very quickly. The book itself is beautiful, with excellent quality and a wonderful personalization option. Highly satisfied!

Terrible company I made an order and tried to cancel 12 mins later as made a mistake and they refused to cancel the order 12 mins later!! I mean are they legally allowed to do that claiming it would have been printed already 12 mins later!! Would never use them again!!

The exterior of the product is of high, durable quality. However the font of the articles are extremely small -- making it nearly illegible. The photos are of poor quality --grainy and pixelated, unable to make out the images.

The idea behind the product is very cool, but the quality of the print just makes this product not worth it.

Very disappointing. Poor quality images, uninteresting headlines and book was warped ( like buying books from Amazon) A lot of money spent on nothing special.

The articles have ben reduced down to a nearly unreadable form. Little to no effort was made by this company to deliver clean copies. I could have created this with a copy machine from 20 years ago. I made the mistake of not looking at reviews before purchasing. I would not recommend.

What a shame, I would have purchased the Historic Newspaper for a birthday present, but glad I read the reviews first.

Disappointed my order apparently was delivered near my back door, don't know why as front door is propped open, however it is NO WHERE TO BE SEEN, can't speak to anyone, telephone mail box is full, no reply to emails!!!!!! This is a birthday present for Sunday 6th June

Almost unreadable. Very small print. Poor quality. A great disappointment.

My item came and had been damaged in transit! Claudia at customer service was extremely helpful and accommodating in getting a replacement sent to me! It is a birthday gift so I needed it soon and she helped me in a very timely manner! I can’t express how pleased I am with this customer service! The item is absolutely gorgeous and exactly what it shows online!

So so bad! Do not buy. Spent almost £60 on a birthday present and the pages look like bad print-outs. Some of them are folded over too. Even the paper quality is dreadful and the cover pages have air bubbles.