About the Courier
A weekly newspaper from the past, one year in every issue.
The Erstwhile Courier is a broadsheet newspaper, 32 pages or more in four sections, that goes out once a week. Each issue covers one year of history, written as if it went to press at the end of that year: the headlines, the inventions, the sport, the prices and the photographs of the day.
It runs for about fifty years. 1933–1982 is on sale now. Every reader starts at issue one and reads forward a year a week.
Every story is written in the voice of the papers of its year: the stakes and the feeling of the moment as people reported them then, and nothing that year could not have known. Pictures are in the public domain or licensed, every story is checked against its sources, and the sources for each year are published online.
It is given most often as a gift to a parent or grandparent. Senior-living and retirement communities, libraries and clubs take it through the Community Edition.
Who publishes it
The Erstwhile Courier is published from PO Box 397, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004. Email us at support@erstwhilecourier.com. Our editor gives every issue final approval before it is printed or published: see how the paper is made.