Electronic newspapers

Key databases

• Factiva is an international news database providing an archive of 10,000 sources from 152 countries in 22 languages. As Factiva is such a huge database, it's best to try and focus your search. See our News FAQs for more help.
• LexisLibrary is a legal database which includes articles from UK national and regional news sources. See our News FAQs for more help.
• NewsFilm online provides video news stories from the ITN/Reuters archives.

Historical news archives

• Nineteenth century British Library newspapers (via Gale Databases) contains digital editions of a wide variety of national and regional British newspapers from the 19th century. The database also provides contextual essays about the role of newspapers during the period.
• Seventeenth & Eighteenth century Burney Collection newspapers (via Gale Databases) a digital archive of 17th and 18th century British Newspapers gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney. The collection, approximately 1,270 titles, includes pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers published in England, Ireland and Scotland, plus a selection of papers from British colonies in the Americas and Asia.
• Both databases can be searched simultaneously through British Newspapers 1600-1900
• The Guardian and The Observer (1791 - 2003) (via ProQuest). The complete digital edition of the Guardian (1821 - 2003) and the Observer (1791 - 2003) with all articles, advertisements and illustrations.

• Times Digital Archive (via Gale Databases). The complete digital edition of The Times (London), 1785-1985, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations.

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