Library & Cultural Services: Art History, Curating and Heritage: 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

Factiva

Factiva is the Library's key newspaper database, offering full text access to thousands of newspapers from around the world, in a variety of languages. It includes many key national newspapers of record, as well as more local or regional newspapers. Additional content comes from Web newspapers, news wires, and business information sources.
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

Gale Primary Sources
Gale Primary Sources provides access to a range of collections and newspaper archives. These databases include The Times; The Sunday Times; The Independent; The Daily Mail; Archives of Sexuality and Gender; British Library Newspapers; Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920; 17th and 18th Century Burney Newspapers Collection; and more.

Shibboleth users
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.