I have subscribed to Newspapers.com to have access to hundreds of newspaper archives. Lately I have been looking for articles about Jews from the earliest newspapers they cover, which are British newspapers from 1700.
Reporting in those days was spotty, relying on letters received from distant lands, so it is hard to verify the stories, especially when they weren't considered important enough for the history books. Still, life for the Jews was pretty bad then.
For example, this article from The Newcastle Weekly Courant, June 26, 1717:
Or the same newspaper in 1716:
Or this story of Jews in Genoa forced to wear a yellow ribbon in 1724:
But this one really struck me, because it was a literal blood libel that time forgot, and several Jews were murdered because of it - just a tiny story in the Caledonian Mercury in 1726:
