Tag: newspapers
Primary Sources: Media History Digital Library
The Media History Digital Library (MDHL) is a digitized collection of media publications in the public domain, consisting of important trade publications and fan magazines, mostly from the first half of the twentieth century. The publications can be browsed, or searched using Lantern, a tool developed by the MHDL and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Communication Arts. Titles currently included are:
Business Screen (1938-1973)
Cine-Mundial (1916-1946)
Close Up (1927-1933)
The Film Daily (1918-1948)
International Photographer (1929-1941)
Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (1916-1949)
Journal of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (1950-1954)
The Educational Screen (1922-1962)
Modern Screen (1930-1960)
Motion Picture [Magazine] (1914-1941)
Motion Picture Daily (1931-1960)
Motion Picture Herald (1931-1948)
Motion Picture News (1913-1930)
Motion Picture News Booking Guide (1922-25)
Moving Picture World (1907-1919)
Photoplay (1914-1940)
Radio Age: Research, Manufacturing, Communications, Broadcasting, Television (1942-1957)
Radio Broadcast (1922-1930)
Screenland (1920-1960)
Sponsor (1946-1964)
Talking Machine World (1906-1928)
Variety (1905-1941)
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Primary Sources: The British Union of Fascists: newspapers and secret files
Part of British Online Archives, The British Union of Fascists: newspapers and secret files collection includes documents from the UK National Archives and the Imperial War Museum related to the 1930s British fascist movement led by Sir Oswald Mosley.
Three principal publications of the BUF, Action (1936-1940), Blackshirt (1933-1939) and Fascist week (1933-1934) are reproduced here. The collection also includes information gathered by the Home Office, the Police, MI5 and the Cabinet Office on Mosley and his second wife Lady Diana Mosley.
Primary Sources: The Times of India (1838-2005)
The Library has recently acquired the historic newspaper The Times of India. Originally founded in 1838 as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce (1838-1859), it became the Bombay Times and Standard (1860-1861) after merging with two other popular newspapers. After another merger in 1861, it was renamed The Times of India (1861-present).
The searchable database includes content from 1838-2005.
Primary Sources: PapersPast
The National Library of New Zealand has digitized more than 90 New Zealand newspapers and periodicals, covering the years 1839 to 1945. The titles and dates of the newspapers that are included are available on the Papers Past website.
The papers are searchable full text and can be browsed by region, date, and title.
The Papers Past site also provides a link to the Māori Niupepa Collection, historic newspapers published primarily for a Māori audience between 1842 and 1932.
Primary Sources: TROVE
Produced by the National Library of Australia, TROVE serves as a portal for digital collections as well as a depository for digital content.
What you can find in TROVE:
- digitized Australian newspapers with holdings dating back to 1803 and up to 1954 (though a few date later)
- books and other print materials
- journal articles
- theses and data sets to give you an insight into Australia’s research effor
- objects
- photographs and artworks
- music, both printed and recorded, and
- videos
- the full text of the Australian Women’s Weekly from 1933 to 1982
- archived copies of selected Australian websites from 1996 to the present
- collected information about people and organisations
- lists of resources created by other Trove users
Primary Sources: American Popular Entertainment
The American Popular Entertainment collection from the University of Illinois contains digital facsimiles of historic newspapers and trade journals published for the entertainment industry in the US between 1853 and 1929. These works include trade perspectives, features, and travel information on vaudeville, music performance, burlesque, and other popular forms of entertainment of the period.
The collection currently includes:
New York Clipper 7 May 1853 – 12 July 1924 (3605 issues)
Player 8 December 1911 – 21 November 1913 (102 issues)
Vaudeville News 16 April 1920 – 8 June 1929 (286 issues)
Je suis Charlie Hebdo
Paying homage to the cartoonists and founding editors of the satirical French weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo who lost their lives earlier today in a senseless act of violence, I’ve highlighted some of their printed works held in UC Berkeley’s collection:
A gauche, toute! / Wolinski.
Aïe! : les années 80 / Wolinski.
Un apartheid à la française : dix réponses à la “préférence nationale” / SOS racisme ; préface de Fodé Sylla ; illustration Tignous.
B̂ete, ḿechant et hebdomadaire : une histoire de Charlie hebdo, 1969-1982 / Stìephane Mazurier.
Cabu en Amérique / Jean-Claude Guillebaud, Laurent Joffrin.
Cabu 68 / Cabu, Laurence Garcia ; avec José Artur … [et al.].
Contre les hommes–tout contre! / Anne-Laure Schneider ; dessins de Wolinski.
Dialogues de sourds / Wolinski.
Dis maman, y’a pas de dames dans l’histoire? / Maryse Wolinski ; illustrations de Wolinski.
Il n’y a pas que la politique dans la vie / Wolinski
Lettres d’insulte / Dieudonné ; illustrées par Tignous ; préface de Brigitte Tanguy.
Marx, mode d’emploi / texte de Daniel Bensaïd; dessins par Charb.
Les meilleures couvertures de Charlie Hebdo
Mitterand et son beauf’ : [bande dessinée] / Cabu.
La reine des pommes / Chester Himes ; Wolinski.
Sarko circus / Cabu.
Les sentinelles : comédie en deux tableaux / Pierre-Robert Leclercq ; dessins de Cabu.
Trial: Japan Times Archive and the Japan Chronicle Weekly
We have trial access to the Japan Times Archive and the Japan Chronicle weekly through December 31, 2014.
These are both English resources on Japan.
Japan Times Coverage from Mar. 22, 1897 to 2013.
Japan Chronicle Coverage from 1919 to 1941.
Primary Sources: Digitized Iraq Newspapers
The Middle East Materials Project (MEMP) at the Center for Research Libraries has digitized two newspapers related to Iraq, from original holdings at UCLA Libraries, that are now available to researchers.
Habzbuz is an illustrated, satirical Arabic-language newspaper published in Baghdad after the 2003 invasion. MEMP has digitized issues from 2003. The newspaper contains a wealth of political cartoons on events and public figures during the U.S. occupation.
Al-Iraq is an Arabic-language newspaper of the Iraqi diaspora community, published in Glendale, California. The issues included in this digitization project are from April 2011 to October 2013.
Primary Sources: Freely available digitized newspapers
A librarian at Bowling Green State University has created some truly excellent portals to digitized historical newspapers freely available on the web.
Historical U.S. Newspapers Online
The home page includes links to sites that provide access to newspapers from multiple states, the remaining links are organized by state.
Historical Canadian Newspapers Online
The home page includes links to National and multi-province papers, the rest are organized by province.
Historical Newspapers Online
The guide provides links to digitized newspapers from countries around the world.