Library & Cultural Services: Philosophy: News Sources

News Sources: Introduction

News articles and reviews can provide useful information about sociological, political and cultural topics. You can use the links below to search the news sources to which the library subscribes.

Contemporary News Sources

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).

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Historical News Sources

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.