Library & Cultural Services: Interdisciplinary Studies: News and Media

News and Media: Introduction

News and media content can provide useful information about historical and current events, representations of particular individuals or groups and topics in politics, social policy, criminology and education. Bear in mind though that mainstream news and media articles are not normally considered to be academic sources, so you will also need to use academic books and journal articles to supplement your argument.

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

Contemporary News and Media

Nexis
Contains company information for 11,000 companies world-wide, daily financial and business news, the full text of the Financial Times. Also includes news from over 2000 global sources with a 40 year archive.
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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. BoB is produced by the British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC), Cambridge Imaging Systems and Bournemouth University.

Historical News Archives

Gale Primary Sources
Artemis Primary Sources (previously called British Newspapers 1601950) from Gale Group includes access to the following databases: 17th-18th century Burney Collection newspapers; 19th Century UK Periodicals; Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2004; The Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2012; The Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2010; The Sunday Times Digital Archive, 1822-2006; The Times Digital Archive; Independent Digital Archive,1986-2012; Telegraph Historical Archive 1855-2000; Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1791920; and Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Shibboleth users
Proquest historical newspapers
This historical newspaper archive provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
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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.