Library guides: Performing Arts: Newspapers and news sources

Current news databases

Use Nexis UK and Factiva to search for international, national and regional news, and access the full text of those newspapers which are normally restricted by paywalls, such as The Times (London) and the New York Times.

These databases are updated daily. They provide you with the full-text of the article, but no accompanying images, graphics or charts.

Nexis UK
Full-text coverage of national, regional and international news from a range of sources including newswires. Updated daily and with many titles having a 20 year archive, useful for current affairs and seeing how topics have been reported.
Articles generally have no formatting or images.
Limitation
- Users may print and download for personal use only single copies of up to ten documents in Full Text Format from the results of one search.
- Users are prohibited from downloading substantial parts of the database and materials cannot be stored for longer than 90 days.
- Nexis cannot be used for any non-academic purposes and text data mining is not permitted.
- The right to retrieve and store machine-readable copies of Materials is limited to the retrieval of a single copy of a reasonable portion of the Materials included in any individual file of the Online Services using the downloading commands of the Online Services or your web browser software and storage of that copy in machine readable form for no more than 90 days, primarily for one person’s exclusive use, to the extent the storage of those Materials is not further limited or prohibited by the Additional Terms.
- For further information please see Library Services’ Online Resource Policy.
Factiva
Offers full text from a range of sources including international newspapers, trade publications and magazines. Many titles have a 20 year archive and content is updated daily, making it useful for business, industry news and reports.
Please note that articles generally have no formatting or images.
Limitation
- The length of time to store a single copy of downloaded materials from this resource in machine readable form is limited to 30 days only.
- Text data mining is not permitted within our Factiva UK licence.

Digital archives

Daily Mail Historical Archive 1896-2016
Fully searchable and browsable digital archive. Includes images, adverts etc in addition to text.
Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2020
Fully searchable and browsable digital archive. Includes images, adverts etc in addition to text.
Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2021
Fully searchable and browsable digital archive. Includes adverts, market listings etc in addition to text.
Guardian (1821-2003) and Observer (1791-2003) Archive, The
Fully searchable and browsable digital archive. Includes images, adverts etc in addition to text.
Independent Historical Archive, 1986-2016
Fully searchable and browsable digital archive. Includes images, adverts etc in addition to text.
New York Times Archive with Index 1851-2020, The
Fully searchable and browsable digital archive. Includes images, adverts etc in addition to text.
For current coverage please see New York Times.
Sunday Times Historical Archive, 1822-2021
Fully searchable and browsable digital archive. Includes images, adverts etc in addition to text.
Telegraph Historical Archive (1855-2016)
Fully searchable and browsable digital archive. Includes images, adverts etc in addition to text.
This archive includes both The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph (launched in 1961).
Times Digital Archive; 1785-2019
Fully searchable and browsable digital archive. Includes images, adverts etc in addition to text.
See also: Sunday Times Digital Archive.
Washington Post archive (1877 - 2008), The
Searchable and browsable digital archive. Includes images, adverts etc in addition to text.