Some links for web-sites about
Newspapers, Magazines and other Media .
These LINKS-Topics have been been compiled from the links submitted by RootsChatters.
Many thanks to everyone who has contributed.
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NewsreelsNewsreels on British Pathe www.britishpathe.comView thousands of old newsreels at the
British Pathe Website from the start of the boar War to the 1970s.
Newsreels on YouTube Movietone News - 1940s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1Gt6hPuMawPathe 'Seven Nightly News' bulletin - 15th August 1945
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nvwMcjAwiwBBC- Nation on Film http://www.bbc.co.uk/nationonfilm/archive.shtmlMoving History http://www.movinghistory.ac.uk/index.htmlResearch guide to U.K.’s 12 public sector moving image archives. Presenting detailed information & clips from these fascinating & valuable film & television collections. Follow links above to find more about archives & browse over 100 selected film clips from collections.
Edwardians Online http://www.qualidata.ac.uk/edwardians/about/introduction.aspProject aiming to improve access to archived, qualitative data. Main outcome of project is an online resource that provides content-based access to a collection of oral history interviews with people who lived in Edwardian Britain.
British Council Film-
archive of over 120 short documentary films made during 1940s to show the world how Britain lived, worked and played.
NewspapersGazettes http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/Published By Authority. Official Newspaper of Record for the UK and a modern, efficient way to disseminate and record official, regulatory and legal information in print, online and electronic forms.
with links to
The London Gazette /
http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/The Edinburgh Gazette /
http://www.edinburgh-gazette.co.uk/The Belfast Gazette /
http://www.belfast-gazette.co.uk/The London Gazette is the oldest published newspaper produced in the Uk.
Useful for searches of Officers from WWI amongst other things.
The Guardian and the Observer Archives http://guardian.chadwyck.co.uk/passwordThe Scotsman Archive http://archive.scotsman.comThe British Library of Newspapers
http://www.uk.olivesoftware.com/Default/welcome.asp?skin=BL&QS=Skin%3DBL%26enter%3DtrueA great site which is fully searchable by newspaper or article
The British Library: British Newspapers 1800 - 1900 http://newspapers.bl.uk/blcs/Explore two million pages of 19th century newspapers
Partially free.
The Newspaper Archive http://www.newspaperarchive.com/A Worlwide searchable Database
http://www.newsplan.co.uk/The NEWSPLAN London and the South East web-site provides details of about 2,500 titles of local newspapers, past and present, relating to the London and South East region of the United Kingdom.
The entries include main titles and titles of their variant editions for local areas, together with predecessor and successor titles; start and end dates of newspapers; and, where and in what sequences the newspapers are held in (largely) public libraries and archives within London and the South East. Many copies, too, are held by the British Library Newspaper Library.
Early 18th. Century Newspaper Reports http://grubstreet.rictornorton.co.uk/Not whole newspapers, but a selection of articles, under the following headings:
- Trials at the Old Bailey, Hangings at Tyburn, Famous Criminals, Mobs and the Pillory
- Love and Marriage, Abandoned Children, Rape and Infanticide, Sodomites and the Drury Lane Ladies
- Bills of Mortality, Suicides, Natural Catastrophes, Horrid Accidents and Funeral Customs
- Health and Beauty and Advertisements for Quack Medicines
- Daily Life, Work and Poverty, Runaway Apprentices and Slaves, Commerce, Trade and Bankruptcy
- Religion, Witchcraft, Jews, French Protestants
- Scientific Inventions, Wonders of Nature and Monstrous Births
- Politics and Public Order
- Low-Life Literature
Tending as it does, to the sensational and villainous, it could be useful, if you have a black sheep (or more), or maybe a skeleton (or two, or more) in the family.
UK-NEWSPAPER-EXTRACTS Mailing Listhttp://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/UK/UK-NEWSPAPER-EXTRACTS.htmlI have just spent an hour reading through some fascinating newspaper clips from various U.K.Newpapers
Links checked July 2013________________________________________________________
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