Newspaper articles and news programmes can provide useful information about historical and current events. Using news articles as primary sources can allow you to:
Because newspapers sometimes contain commentaries or retrospective articles about events, they can also be classed as secondary sources.
You can use the links below to search the news sources to which the library subscribes.
Worldwide full text of international newspapers, trade publications, business newswires, press release wires, media transcripts, news photos, business-rich web sites, investment analyst reports, market research reports, country and regional profiles, company profiles, historical market data, etc.
The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection represents the largest single collection of seventeenth and eighteenth century English news media available from the British Library and includes more than 1,000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the period.