LibGuides: Education and Childhood Studies: News and Media

Media Search

Use this box to search the library catalogue for media items:

Box of Broadcasts

The iPlayer for education

BoB is a service from the British Film and Video Council that enables you to record and view TV and radio online from over 65 free-to-air channels in the UK, including an archive of over 2 million programmes. BoB is available to staff, students and researchers at member universities and colleges across the UK. It includes searchable programme transcripts and subtitles.

Television and Film

These resources provide access to television news and current affairs broadcasts: ideal for seeing how major events were reported at the time.

BFI Inview

Over 2,000 non-fiction film and television titles from the 20th century to the early 21st, including party political broadcasts and current affairs programmes.
BBC Archive

Publicly available archive of selected highlights from the BBC over the last 75 years.
Chronicle

‘Chronicle’ is a collection of BBC Northern Ireland’s television news from the Sixties and Seventies. This resource is provided by the British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC). The digitised content spans a 7 year period (1969-1976) of Northern Ireland’s history and provides a wealth of different political, historical and cultural perspectives.
British Council Film Collection

Free access to a historic archive of 120 films made during the 1940s which focussed upon how Britain lived and worked. They are therefore fascinating to social historians.The site also includes some background essays on film history and themes from BFI specialists.
Kanopy Film Streaming Service

Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service for educational institutions that provides 12 million students and faculty with access to more than 26,000 films each year.

Multimedia Resources

There are lots of really interesting and unusual types of material out there for you to use in your presentations and assignments. Work through this short tutorial to find out more about finding:

      TV clips
      Social Media
      Copyright free photos
      Podcasts

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Current UK Newspapers

Search tip: limit your search by date to reduce the number of results.

LexisLibrary - UK News
Includes all national UK newspapers except:

Access to all national UK newspapers (excluding the Financial Times) and over 100 regional and local titles. Covers the last 20-25 years depending on publication.
The Financial Times
1996 to date

Newspaper Archives

The newspaper archive links below provide access to digital copies of the whole newspaper (including pictures and adverts), covering the major events of the 20th Century.

17th & 18th Century Burney Collection

Newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) providing a comprehensive collection of early English news media.

Off campus access requires Shibboleth/University user ID and password.
The BBC Listener Archive 1929 -1991

A weekly publication, established by the BBC in 1929 as the medium for reproducing radio - and later, television - programmes in print, including political and cultural news stories.

Off campus access requires Shibboleth/University user ID and password.
British Newspapers 1600-1900

Cross searches both the 17th-18th century Burney collection newspapers and the British Library 19th century newspaper collection.

Off campus access requires Shibboleth/University user ID and password.
The Guardian and Observer Archive 1791-2003

Off campus access requires Shibboleth/University ID username and password.
The Illustrated London News 1842-2003

Off campus access requires Shibboleth/University user ID and password.
The Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985

Off campus access requires Shibboleth/University user ID and password.

19th Century British Library Newspapers
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Provides access to a cross section of 19th century national and regional titles (including the Hull Packet).

Off campus access requires Shibboleth/University user ID and password.

Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2004
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This archive provides more than 100 years of the Daily Mail newspaper online. In addition to the regular edition of the newspaper, the archive includes the Daily Mail Atlantic Edition, which was published on board the transatlantic liners that sailed between New York and Southampton between 1923 and 1931.

IP on campus/Shibboleth off campus (University User ID and password)
New York Times Archive, 1851-2014
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The Historical New York Times with Index (1851-1993) provides search capability using subject terms and topics for focused and targeted results in combination with searchable full text, full page, and article-level images from the Historical New York Times.


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