Your Life in Newspaper Headlines – The Mirror

Yes, but there are a few small caveats. Due to things like strikes and public holidays, sometimes no newspaper was printed.

• If you're ordering for a birthday after 1998, your birthday newspaper book will include 25 historical newspaper front pages, each followed by a blank scrapbook page. Handy for scribbling down stories and memories and attaching old photos.

• The Mirror was on strike from 26th March 1955–20th April 1955. Should your chosen birth date fall within the strike period, we'll insert a page into your book explaining that there were no papers available on that date.

• The birthday newspaper book will only include this year's birthday page if it is ordered 30 days after the selected date.

• No newspapers are printed on Christmas Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday or during strikes. If your chosen date falls on any of these, we'll use front pages from the following days. Papers are also occasionally withdrawn for legal reasons.

We can make books for people with birthdays from 1920 onwards (and we set the latest ‘start year’ as 1998 - anyone born later than this would have a slim book!). Before this date, the quality of the newspapers gets a little patchy as they’re so old. So unless you’re buying for someone like Ethel Caterham (born in 1909 and, as of 2025, the oldest woman in the world), you should be OK. The book will include headlines up to the last month: so if their birthday is 20th February 1971 and you order a book on the 21st March, your book will have a page from every year including this year.