Newspapers and Magazines
You can access a vast range of newspapers and magazines online and free of charge with your Roehampton login – both current and historical content.
These make great sources of information for your assignments, whether you are looking at reports of past events as they happened, or up-to-the-minute coverage of current affairs.
You can use them to identify changing political, economic, linguistic and social trends, by tracking commentary on issues over time; or read reviews of art and culture across the generations. Or even just read about your favourite leisure pursuits in a study break!
See below for more information about how to access these resources.
Current Newspapers and Magazines
The Library subscribes to a wide range of current newspapers and magazines that you can access free of charge with your Roehampton login. Most can be accessed via the PressReader app, but some titles are individual subscriptions. See below for further details.
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Access thousands of current, international newspapers and magazines. You can also download the PressReader App. Note: To log in, click sign in at the top of the screen, select Library or Group, then find University of Roehampton and Sign In via Open Athens. Spotlight on PressReader blog post.
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Worldwide news and business database. This content is unavailable in UR Library Search and can only be found here on the Nexis platform.
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Click 'login' at the top of the page and then ‘register now’ and fill in the form to gain access.
Users will need to create an account on The Economist to gain access. - Financial Times This link opens in a new window
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Provides articles, in-depth 'Special Reports', facsimile of the newspaper from 2005 onwards, and company and financial information.
Note: you will have to create a personal account on FT after first sign in to access the resource. - Vogue Archive This link opens in a new window
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The Vogue Archive contains the entire run of US Vogue magazine, from 1892 to the current month, reproduced in images indexed by garment type, designer and brand names.
Past Newspapers and Magazines: digital archives
The Library subscribes to a several digital archives of historical newspapers, magazines and other ephemera such as pamphlets, theatre programmes, playbills etc. These rich sources of material, also known as "primary sources", go back as far as the 17th century and give a direct connection to past events.
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Explore historic newspapers, pamphlets, acts of Parliament, and other early publications from the 1600s and 1700s, from Britain, Europe, America and India.
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The British Library’s archives of searchable facsimiles of regional and national newspapers from the 19th century.
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A cross-searchable platform of eight databases containing digital reproductions of newspapers, periodicals, books and ephemera from the 17th to 20th centuries, including archives of the Illustrated London News, the Listener, Times & Times Literary Supplement (TLS).
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Local, regional and national UK news archive from 1791 - 2003. Note: to access current issues, see Pressreader.
- Illustrated London News This link opens in a new window
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A digital archive of the world's first weekly illustrated newspaper from 1842 to 2003, providing contemporary accounts and images of significant British and world events.
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Archive of printed ephemera covering everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- Listener Historical Archive This link opens in a new window
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Complete, searchable digital archive of The Listener, the journal published by the BBC from 1929-1991.
- New York Times with Index (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
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Content from the New York Times (1851-2015) with index (1851-1993).
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The Times newspaper in facsimile from 1785 - 2019.
- TLS Historical Archive This link opens in a new window
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Full text of the Times Literary Supplement from 1902-2013.
- Vogue Archive This link opens in a new window
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The Vogue Archive contains the entire run of US Vogue magazine, from 1892 to the current month, reproduced in images indexed by garment type, designer and brand names.