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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 onwards. Updated daily.
The Economist online offers authoritative insight and opinion on international news, politics, business, finance, science and technology. It publishes all articles from The Economist print edition (including those printed only in British copies) and maintains a searchable online archive that dates back June 1997 (for articles published prior to 1997, you will need to use The Economist Historical Archive). It also offers a variety of web-only content, including blogs, debates and audio/video programmes.;OFF CAMPUS ACCESS: In order to access articles using the search function, please adapt the URL to include the following information 0-www-economist-com.serlib0.essex.ac.uk. For example: https://www.economist.com/1843/2020/09/28/during-lockdown-i-rediscovered-nature-and-the-colour-green change to: https://0-www-economist-com.serlib0.essex.ac.uk/1843/2020/09/28/during-lockdown-i-rediscovered-nature-and-the-colour-green;PLEASE NOTE: The Economist are experiencing issues with certain browsers (particularly Chrome) and recommend using Firefox to access content.
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The latest UK and international business, finance, economic and political news, with comment and analysis from the Financial Times team, plus a 5 year archive of the Financial Times.
Searchable index to newspapers held by the British Library. Please note that you can only view the images of the newspapers for free if you are within British Library premises; if you are searching from anywhere else you will need to buy either a credit package or a subscription.
Selection of the FBIS Daily Reports. The reports translated into English and covering the period 1974-1996 are transcripts of foreign radio and television broadcasts, newspapers, periodicals and government statements from countries around the world.
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, 1790-1920; and Eighteenth Century Collections Online.
Archive of original articles providing a digestible but detailed summary of the world’s most significant political, social and economic events since 1931, drawn from a wide range of press and other sources in a variety of languages.
The Daily Mail has been at the heart of British journalism since 1896, regularly changing the course of government policy and setting the national debate. As well as providing access to the regular edition of this path-breaking newspaper, the archive also contains the Atlantic Editions, printed on board the transatlantic cruise liners between 1923 and 1931.
The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2010 ('EHA') is the fully searchable complete facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper which is essential reading for anyone engaged in politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide. In 8,000 issues and more than 600,000 pages, EHA offers full-colour images, multiple search indexes, topic and area supplements and surveys, together with a gallery of front covers and a selection of exportable financial tables.
The Rand Daily Mail, a Johannesburg daily, is a critically important title that pioneered popular journalism in South Africa. It is renowned today for being the first newspaper to openly oppose apartheid and contribute to its downfall. Search news articles from 1902-1985.
Fully searchable complete facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper which is essential reading for anyone engaged in politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide.
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.
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.
Screenonline is a website devoted to the history of British film and television, and to Britain's social history as revealed by film and television. The site features hundreds of hours of video clips from the vast collections of the bfi National Film and Television Archive, alongside thousands of stills, posters and press books and several hours of recorded interviews with film and television personalities. This material is supplemented by rich and authoritative contextual material by expert writers, specially commissioned for screenonline.
