Library & Cultural Services: Literature: News and Media

News Sources: Introduction

News articles and reviews can provide useful information about people, events and publications/films/performances. You can use the links below to search the news sources to which the library subscribes.

Contemporary News Sources

Factiva
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.
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 Sources

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.