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

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, and from the archive (back to around 2007 for 9 key channels).

Institutional login

Historical News Archives

Gale Primary Sources
Gale Primary Sources provides access to a range of collections and newspaper archives. These databases include the 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
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.

Institutional login

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.