Burney Collection
The Burney Collection includes nearly one million pages from 1,270 parliamentary papers, pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks, and newspapers published in England, Ireland and Scotland between 1600-1800. Full facsimile and fully searchable.
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FT.com
- Subject coverage: news
- Size/scope: the Financial Times is an international daily newspaper with a special emphasis on business and economic news. In addition to the content appearing in the printed newspaper the online version gives access to personalised news alerts, specialist blogs and videos
- Type of content: newspaper articles
- Date range: 2006 to date
- Level of access: full text available.
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Google News Archive
- Subject coverage: historical archives including newspapers/magazines, news archives and legal archives
- Type of content: newspaper articles
- Level of access: some full text available.
The Guardian Digitised Newspaper
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- Subject coverage: news
- Size/scope: Guardian Digitised Newspaper provides a full facsimile of The Guardian enabling you to see the pages as they were published
- Type of content: newspaper articles
- Date range: 2010 to date (3 month delay)
- Level of access: full text available.
The Independent Digital Archive
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- Subject coverage: news
- Size/scope: The Independent Digital Archive provides full facsimile, searchable copies of the entire run of the newspaper, from its very first issue in 1986 until the end of 2012, enabling you to see all the stories and pages as they were published. Users can search, retrieve and browse every article, page and edition of the newspaper, gaining insight into a crucial period of 20th/21st century culture and society and how the media represented it. Featuring journalists and columnists from across the political spectrum, the paper is generally regarded as centrist, taking idiosyncratic views on the free market, social issues and culture
- Type of content: newspaper articles
- Date range: 1986-2016
- Level of access: full text available
Lexis+
- Subject coverage: law and tax
- Type of content: Contains UK lcgislation currently in force, many law report series, some full text law journals, and full text works of legal commentary, such as Halsbury's Laws. Includes practical guidance materials, such as step-by-step guides, practice notes, checklists, forms, and precedents.
- Level of access: some full text available.
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Nexis Uni
- Subject coverage: multidisciplinary database of local, regional, national, and international newspapers. It also includes journals, broadcasts, newswires, blogs, legal sources, and business/company information
- Type of content: local, regional, national, and international newspapers, with some journals and other media
- Level of access: full text.
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Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers
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Parts 1 and 2 of the British Library Newspapers collection, spanning 1800-1900, contains regional and local newspapers. The content totals over three million pages and reflects the social and political developments of the time. Coverage includes everything from well-known historic events and cultural icons of the time, to sporting events, arts, and culture. This resource also includes contextual essays regarding the role of newspapers in the Victorian age, bibliographic headnotes, and a chronological overview. Full facsimile and fully searchable.
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals
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Part 1: Women’s, Children’s, Humour, and Leisure. This resource includes full-text of 100 titles and 1.2 million pages from periodicals published in the UK between 1800 and 1900. Its focus is on the birth of modern magazine publishing in the UK. Content included:
- Women's writing, from Hearth and Home to the suffragist, The Vote via Women and Josephine Butler's The Dawn
- The rise of children's entertainment and education, with titles including Boys' Own and Little Folks
- Popular sports and hobbies, from gardening and horse racing to cricket and cycling
- Satirical and comic titles such as Punch, Fun, Judy and Figaro
- Newly captured images, including approximately 8,000 in colour.
Full facsimile and fully searchable.
Onlinenewspapers.com
- Subject coverage: international directory of online newspapers
- Type of content: links to online newspapers
- Level of access: some full text available.
PressReader
- Subject coverage: newspapers
- Size/scope: over 2,000 UK and international newspapers
- Type of content: all major daily and business newspapers, also general business and industry publications
- Type of content: facsimiles of newspapers
- Date range: last 365 days for most titles (The Guardian last 14 days only)
- Level of access: full text.
The Times Digital Archive (TDA)
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- Subject coverage: News
- Size/scope: An excellent resource for historical and biographical research. TDA provides a full facsimile of The Times enabling you to see the pages as they were published. The paper of record, it is an authoritative source of contemporary reporting and commentary on events for the past 200 years
- Type of content: Newspaper articles
- Date range: 1785-2019
- Level of access: Full text available.
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Times Higher Education online
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- Subject coverage: higher education news
- Type of content: newspaper articles
- Date range: 2013 to date
- Level of access: full text available.
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