This comprehensive news collection is ideal for exploring issues and events at the local, regional, national and international level. Its diverse source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos.
Use it to explore a specific event or to compare a wide variety of viewpoints on topics such as politics, business, health, sports, cultural activities and people. Content is easily searched and sorted through an intuitive, map-based interface.
Nexis provides news and business information from a range of sources, including UK national and regional newspapers, international newspapers and newswires, and foreign language news sources in Dutch, French, German, Arabic, Spanish and Portuguese. It also provides business information from professional and trade magazines and company profiles and industry reports from a variety of sources.
British Library Newspapers contains full runs of influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of British society. Coverage is from 1732 to 1950, and a number of new titles have recently been added to the collection, including the Westmorland Gazette, Leeds Intelligencer, and the Liverpool Daily Post. Now including Irish newspapers
The collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
NB: British Library Newspapers (1732-1950) includes the vast majority of the newspapers contained within the British Newspaper Archive (BNA). Exclusions are low print runs and material with poor legibility. BNA content is exclusively available to higher education institutions via the BL database.
An online, fully searchable facsimile, Gale's Financial Times Historical Archive delivers a near-complete run of the London edition of this internationally known daily paper, from its first issue through to 2021. Every article, advertisement, and market listing is included—shown both individually and in the context of the full page and issue of the day.
This historical archive is a comprehensive research tool for those studying economic and business history and current affairs of the last 120 years.
Initially focused on the global financial and economic issues that were to become the predominant forces of the twentieth century, the Financial Times expanded coverage in the post-war years, reporting on topics such as industry, energy, and international politics. In more recent decades, coverage of management, personal finance, and the arts has been added.
BFI Player is an online service, streaming landmark British and European independent films. Click on the link above to create an account (or sign in if you already have one). Select Lancaster University from the dropdown list and authenticate subscription using your university credentials. T&Cs: You will need to re-subscribe at the start of each academic year. BFI Player is unavailable outside the UK. Rentals and festival events are not included in the subscription offer.
BoB is an off-air recording and broadcast media archive service available to Higher Education Institutions providing access to TV and radio programmes from over 65 'free-to-air' channels using a programme guide and a search option.
It includes a permanent archive of all broadcast content from nine channels: BBC1 London / BBC2 / BBC4 / ITV London / Channel 4 / More4 / Channel 5 / BBC Radio 4 / BBC Radio 4 Extra.
There is an option to schedule recordings up to seven days in advance and request programmes broadcast over the previous 30 days.
Kanopy provides access to over 18,000 films. If you set up a personal account, you can save things to your watchlist. There are curated playlists for different areas of interest, e.g. Shakespeare. Use the search function to find relevant material to your studies.
100% free streaming service search-engine that offers a wide range of documentaries, movies, and TV shows. Users can have a personalised view of the shows available to them from different streaming services in one place.
Artstor offers 3 million images from leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists. These collections are rights-cleared for use in education, encompass a wide variety of disciplines, and are presented alongside a set of specialized tools for teaching and learning.
Register for a personal account for additional functionality: download images from Artstor's core collections (as well as the public collections); save and organise images; and export fully-captioned images to PowerPoint presentations.
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