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access a vast range of newspapers and magazines online and free of charge with your Roehampton login – both current and historical content.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!
Daily newspapers such as the Guardian and thousands of global magazines can be accessed via PressReader. See below for more information about this and many more sources of current and historical titles.
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.
- PressReader This link opens in a new window
Access UK & International newspapers and magazines via the PressReader App. Note: To log in, click Sign In (top of the screen) > Library or Group > find University of Roehampton > Sign In via OpenAthens. Read our Spotlight on PressReader for Wellbeing blog post.
- Nexis UK This link opens in a new window
Worldwide news and business database. This content is unavailable in UR Library Search and can only be found here on the Nexis platform.
- Economist This link opens in a new window
British weekly magazine of news and opinion, covering world politics, economics, business, finance, science and technology.
Users will need to create an account to gain access - to do this click 'login' at the top of the page, select ‘register now’ and fill in the form.
- Financial Times This link opens in a new window
Daily news focusing on international business and economics. Also includes company and market data and the FT Digital Edition, a replica of the printed newspaper from different countries. You will need to register for an account using your Roehampton email to gain access (see Additional Info for instructions).
- Vogue Archive This link opens in a new window
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.
- 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Explore historic newspapers, pamphlets, acts of Parliament, and other early publications from the 1600s and 1700s, from Britain, Europe, America and India.
- British Library Newspapers This link opens in a new window
The British Library’s archives of searchable facsimiles of regional and national newspapers from the 19th century.
- Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
Digital reproductions of newspapers, magazines, books and ephemera from the 17th to 20th centuries, including archives of the Illustrated London News, the Listener, Times & TLS.
- Guardian and Observer (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
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
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.
- John Johnson Collection This link opens in a new window
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
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
Content from the New York Times (1851-2015) with index (1851-1993).
- Times Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
The Times newspaper in facsimile from 1785 - 2019.
- TLS Historical Archive This link opens in a new window
Full text of the Times Literary Supplement from 1902-2013.
- Vogue Archive This link opens in a new window
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.