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TrustScore 4 out of 5

4.2

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Evaluating 95 reviews, reviewers had a great experience with this company. Customers truly love finding unique personalized gifts for their family members, enthusiastically mentioning that items arrive quickly and make wonderful presents for truly special occasions. Additionally, people frequently praise the customer service team for being extremely responsive, friendly, and helpful when promptly resolving unexpected issues. Some reviewers were not happy with delivery conditions, noting that packages sometimes arrived damaged, wet, or poorly wrapped due to bad weather or rough handling during transit. Other consumers also mentioned occasional problems regarding lower print quality, blurry images, fading details, or warped book covers upon opening the delivery.

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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Fantastic present to give to give to someone who is a huge fan of a specific topic! Can't wait to give it at Christmas. Really good quality and great that can be personalised. Only issue I had to not... See more

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

I bought this as a birthday present for my great grandson who will be 10 next week so can’t say how good it is but I am told it is impressive & he will love it. Ordering & delivery was easy

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

My book arrived with a dented and dirty corner. The box had obviously fallen apart in transit and been taped up. When I told Historic Newspapers they immediately responded with multiple ways to fix... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

First item unfortunately got lost in the post. Tracking said it was delivered but nowhere to be found. I emailed the customer services and Heather resolved my problem very quickly, sending out a repl... See more


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We are delighted to have been delivering special keepsake gifts for important milestone occasions for over 30 years to our happy customers!


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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Excellent Customer Service

I recently ordered a product which arrived in a timely manner, but was not to my satisfaction. Following an email exchange, I was offered a replacement, voucher or full refund. I chose a refund, which was promptly processed. My experience of customer services has been excellent. I’d like to thank the team for resolving my query in a prompt and satisfactory manner.

Kam

4 June 2025
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

60th birthday present…

Brought this as a 60th birthday present for a relative, as it looked fantastic & when delivered I was not disappointed it was unbelievable, full of information all about the club, starting out in black & white then moving into colour & well presentated & the recipient was so thrilled with it.

26 May 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Not impressed

Sorry, wasn’t very impressed with this as it was just standard internals containing historical front covers from same date as selected, pre dating my daughters birth year so irrelevant for those first few pages and “first impressions count”. Also, all Daily Mirror headlines when would have been nice to mix it up (maybe I missed that part) and finally quality of the internal pages paper is poor like 1970’s school toilet paper (well not quite but it was the best analogy I could give). Disappointed to the point that I never even gifted and went straight to recycling. 0 stars

30 May 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The books arrived late and some unreadable

The books arrived and at least 25% is unreadable and the picture images are just black blobs. Complained but said it was the age of the newspapers, but that can't be the case as some are ok and some not. The photocopying hasn't been checked. Waste of money as we are unable to gift this. No refund offered and arrived 4 days too late for the event.

22 May 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Disappointed my order apparently was…

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

2 June 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 3 out of 5 stars

No more personalised message. Not good

Ordered many many times and always been excellent. But no longer can you order a bespoke little card with small succinct manful message. That has genuinely made this gift far less appealing. The card can’t cost more than pennies to create and at £75 there should be scope. Very poor change.

17 May 2025
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great Service and quick delivery

Great Service and quick delivery. Bought a paper for my 90 yr Aunt. It was a genuine newspaper from the day she was born. She was over the moon with it. She is still an avid reader of newspapers so this was an ideal present for her. Well worth the money to have seen her face when opening the gift box.

15 May 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 4 out of 5 stars

A surprise birthday present.

A surprise birthday present.
Attractively packaged and lots of relevant material.
A whole decade missing (1980-1990) so maybe a touch more attention to this type of detail.
An original concept, good that monochrome and colour incorporated.
A querky (large) size will present a bookshelf challenge for sure!
All-in-all a good product and a very welcome present for this Tangerine!

14 May 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great birthday gift!

I just celebrated my 60th birthday and I bought the personalized birthday newspaper book for myself and it's really neat. Every front page of the NY Daily News from my birthdate on. It's a nice look back in time seeing what events happened on your birthday every year. The cover design is awesome too! I would recommend this to anybody who wants to buy a special birthday gift.

21 May 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Fantastic gift idea!

The book is GORGEOUS! I bought it for my mother for her Birthday as a diehard tennis fan and she is obsessed. The perfect keepsake coffee-table book. All the ordering and delivery was faultless, highly recommend.

12 May 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Not impressed!

Not impressed!

I ordered an item from this company 5 days ago and paid priority delivery so I would have it in time for a family member's birthday this weekend. Not only has the item not even been despatched yet but I have had no update or notification from this company that there would be a delay. I only know because I contacted them to get an update. I've then asked if I can change the delivery address so it goes directly to the recipient and been told no! So I've paid a ridiculous amount for priority delivery and now I'll have to pay again to post it on….when it eventually arrives that is!

28 March 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 2 out of 5 stars

It was Just well below standard

It was Just well below standard. I ordered a Birthdate Book for both of my Daughters and it was ALL the UK Mirror that does not really have any worthwhile News on the front page. to be honest it was not good but the Idea is Super. This Company Failed me with the Exinusion so I am Very Disappointed in the Selection of News Paper Used

19 March 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Very poor service

Used the address lookup bar during the final steps of paying for my order. Saw my full address line come up in full so selected it and proceeded to next steps. Only to find out days later that their system has removed the house number. I replicated the steps thinking it must have been my error, but it did it right in front of my eyes. Very poor customer service as 1) no one contacted me to advise the address is incomplete, so they sent out the order, which is now being returned and will not be here on time and 2) they now want to charge another delivery fee

Whilst I appreciate that I should have checked the address in the end, this has never happened with any (and I've used many) other address lookup functions I've used, hence didn't know it was physically possible. What's the point of allowing to select full address, including house number from the list, if you then going to remove parts of it???

12 March 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I would not recommend

I ordered one of these the end of February for a special birthday present through Etsy,it was supposed to be delivered by march 3rd but it didn't arrive so I am now awaiting a refund

5 March 2025
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