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The newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757 - 1817) represent the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media. The 700 or so bound volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets were published mostly in London, however there are also some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India.
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Factiva |
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Factiva provides full text access to 20,000+ sources from more than 159 countries in 22 languages, including more than 400 continuously updated newswires. Coverage includes all major daily and business newspapers, primarily back to early 1990s. Sources also include both general business and industry publications such as The Economist, Forbes, Fortune, Finanz & Wirtschaft, BusinessWeek, Far Eastern Economic Review, etc., plus industry-specific titles such as Advertising Age, Caterer & Hotelkeeper, Computerworld, Retail Week and Travel Weekly.
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Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1974-1996 |
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FBIS Daily Reports, 1974-96 consists of translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals and government statements from nations around the globe. These media sources were monitored in their language of origin, translated into English and issued by a US government agency.
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Free online access to hundreds of scanned and digitised newspapers; some collections go back to the 19th Century. | |
Lexis®Library (formerly LexisNexis Butterworths) |
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Contains extensive law and tax materials. Provides access to UK legislation currently in force, many law report series and some full text journals. Includes full text works of legal commentary, plus forms and precedents. Provides an online version of Halsbury's Laws (the major legal encyclopaedia). Contains EU and international legal materials.
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Full facsimile access of UK national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of the 19th century.
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Full facsimile access of six nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers. | |
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Searchable by country or continent, this free site contains links to thousands of world newspapers. | |
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PressDisplay provides a convenient way to read over 900 UK (national and regional) and international newspapers on one site. Access to the newspapers is available on the day they are published both on and off-campus. The latest 90 days of each newspaper is available for most newspapers.
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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.
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