Theatre and Performance Studies: News & Newspapers

This database features the newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757 - 1817). It is a comprehensive 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.

Factiva provides full text access to Australian newspapers, and newspapers and news wires from around the world. Besides newspapers, the database allows users to browse through a collection of global content sources from 200 countries – including continuously updated newswires from Dow Jones and Reuters, journals and magazines, websites, blogs, and multimedia

As part of TROVE's Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program (ANDP), The National Library of Australia focuses on digitising newspapers published before 1955 on the general understanding that they are out of copyright. Newspapers published after 1954 remain in copyright and require permission from the publishers to digitise and deliver online. Some newspaper titles published after 1955 have been made available due to individual agreements with the publisher.

This interface enables users to simultaneously search or browse across multiple newspapers including: 17th-18th century Burney Collection newspapers, and the historial archives of the Daily Mail [1896-2004], Economist [1843-2013], Listener [1929-1991] , Illustrated London News [1842-2003], Sunday Times [1822-2006], the Times [1785-2011], and the Times Literary Supplement [1902-2012].

NewsBank is ideal for exploring issues and events at the local, regional, national [Australian] and international level. Its diverse source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos. Your can search for a specific event or compare a wide variety of viewpoints on topics such as politics, arts and culture, business, health, sports, and people.

Includes full page images and article images from the New York Daily Times (1851 to 1857) and the New York Times from its first issue in 1857 to 2014. The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue, cover to cover, in downloadable PDF files.

The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Coverage includes all titles of these newspapers. Observer (London, England) (1791- ) and The Manchester guardian and British volunteer (1925-1828), Manchester guardian (Manchester, England : 1828) (1828-1959), Guardian (Manchester, England) (1959- ).

The Washington Post (1877-2004) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Individual issues can be selected or the complete range can be searched by subjects, companies, people, products, and geographic areas. Each issue of every newspaper is indexed thoroughly, not only top news stories but also detailed information on the arts, sports, business, and popular culture. Items such as editorials, editorial cartoons, obituaries, and letters to the editor from well-known people are indexed.

The nineteenth-century run of the Sunday Times remains fairly inaccessible outside of this collection, and its content had been relatively unknown. Now this rich, historical social and cultural content is made available to researchers via this archive. The twentieth-century run of this weekly newspaper is powerful in its hard-hitting investigative journalism and thoughtful analysis, with in-depth information and widely researched, long-term news stories. It is an important resource for all humanities and social sciences courses.

The Times Digital Archive is an online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of The Times, one of the most highly regarded resources for eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century news coverage. The Times has offered readers in-depth, award-winning, objective coverage of world events since its creation in 1785 and is the oldest daily newspaper in continuous publication. With over 12 million articles available, the archive supports research across multiple disciplines and areas of interest.

Trove provides integrated access to over 45 million items from a range of the National Library's collaborative services and from elsewhere. Sources includie: The Australian National Bibliographic Database - containing location information from more than 1,200 Australian libraries, The Picture Australia program, The Australian Research Online program, The Music Australia program, The Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts, and The People Australia program, and some overseas sources.