Library & Cultural Services: Art History: News Archives

News Archives: Introduction

News articles and reviews can provide useful information about historical and current events (e.g. exhibitions), artists and artworks - for example, you could use them to find out how a particular artwork was perceived at the time it was created/exhibited, or to trace an artwork's provenance.

You can use the links below to search the news archives to which the library subscribes.

Contemporary News Archives

Nexis
Provides news from over 2000 global sources - including UK national and regional newspapers, international newspapers and foreign language news sources in Dutch, French, German, Arabic, Spanish and Portuguese - from the 1980s to the present. Updated daily.
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Box of Broadcasts (BoB)
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) is an off-air recording and media archive service. It allows you to record TV and radio programmes scheduled to be broadcast over the next seven days as well as retrieving programmes from the last seven days from a selected list of recorded channels. In addition, you can watch programmes from the archive (back to around 2007 for 9 key channels), create clips, and compile your favourite shows into playlists.
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Historical News Archives

Proquest historical newspapers
Historical newspaper archive which includes The Guardian, The Observer and The New York Times.
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news on screen
This BUFVC database lists over 180,000 news stories produced by ninety British cinema newsreels and cinemagazines, with details of production, content and release taken from the original issue sheets and other data sources. A programme of digitisation has added some 80,000 newsreel documents to the database in PDF format. There is extensive background information, including a biographical database of newsreel staff, a database of abstracts of relevant literature, newsreel histories and articles.