British/United Kingdom-Western European History Core Sources

Contains publications and archives of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) including briefing papers, special reports, pamphlets, conference papers, and monographs, as well as audio recordings of key figures in international affairs from 1920 to 2008. Includes access to the full text of Chatham House's two flagship publications: International Affairs and The World Today.

Search every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2013. Full-color images, multiple search indexes, exportable financial tables and a gallery of front covers highlight a key topic of each week, all combine to offer a primary source of research covering the 19th and 20th centuries.

Provides access to the entire run of the world's first fully illustrated weekly newspaper. Areas covered include politics, social history, fashion, theater, media, literature, advertising, graphic design, and genealogy.

Provides concise geographic, historical, economic, political, social and cultural overviews of each country in the world; and biographical profiles of current and key past leaders. The complete archive, from 1864 to present, is included. Features major international organizations and a tool for easy comparison of a wide range of data fields across all countries of the world. View a tutorial on this database https://link.springer.com/searchhelp.

Access full text of reports issued 1975-1996 created by the U.S. intelligence community to benefit policy makers and analysts, FBIS Daily Reports offer foreign views and perspectives on historical events from thousands of monitored broadcasts, and publications. See World News Connection for broadcasts from 1996 to 2013. See FBIS Electronic Index, below, for a subject search option.

Cross-search Mason's Gale newspaper archives collections using a single interface.
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Includes Poole’s index to Periodical Literature, covering titles in the sciences, humanities, law, medicine, and the arts and literature; as well as indexes to books, newspapers, the visual arts, and government documents. Spans data from the 11th century through 1930.

Covers the events, lives, values and themes that marked the advent of commercial lifestyle publishing in Britain and the rapid rise of modern magazine culture.

Covers the events, lives, values and themes that shaped the 19th century world, including the role Britain played beyond its own borders as an imperial power throughout the nineteenth century.

Provides a full-image archive of every page published by The Times [London] from 1785-1985. Offers fully searchable text within the images. Search news articles, obituaries, images, advertising and classifieds — virtually everything that appeared in the newspaper. Tutorial for the Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985 database.

Includes more than 160 newspapers originating in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland selected by the British Library to best represent different political and cultural segments of 19th century British society.

Documenting 200 years of cultural, political, social and historical events, this is a collection of English news media, including newspapers, newsbooks, proclamations and pamphlets. It provides researchers with information and insight into England’s development as a world power, as well as the emergence of the modern newspaper.