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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.;PLEASE NOTE: The Economist are experiencing issues with certain browsers (particularly Chrome) and recommend using Firefox to access content.
OFF CAMPUS ROUTE: Link to The Economist (search functionality not viable via this route)
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.
PressReader contains the current issues of a selection of newspapers and magazines from over 120 countries in over 60 languages.
OFF-CAMPUS ACCESS: Select "sign in" via "Library or Group". Search for University of Essex. Sign in using "OpenID Connect" and select University of Essex.
A list of the historical newspaper archives to which the library provides access is available via the History subject guide.
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.
