24 Hour Library - news and current affairs

Description: Contains full runs (where possible) of 48 influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of the 19th century British society. Includes The Bristol Mercury (1819-1900).

Home login: Once connected fill in the library membership number box: enter the letters ANP followed by your complete library card number with no gaps. Then select 'Proceed'.
Library access: No Username or password needed.

Use 19th Century British Library Newspapers.
List of the 19th Century British Library Newspapers available (pdf, 109 KB)

Description: Complete facsimile copy of the ILN from it's launch in May 1842 until 2003. The ILN commissioned a galaxy of great artists and draughtsmen to cover wars, royal events, scientific invention, and exploration. In 1855 it launched the world's first colour supplement. Over the years the publication played host to distinguished contributors, including Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Wilkie Collins, Rudyard Kipling, and Agatha Christie; and artists such as Melton Prior, William Heath Robinson, F Matania, Mabel Lucie Atwell and H.M. Bateman.

Home login: Once connected fill in the 'Library membership number' box - enter the letters ANP followed by your complete library card number with no gaps. Then select 'Proceed'.
Library access: No Username or password needed.

Use Illustrated London News.

Description: Full-text and up-to-date content of these newspapers: Bristol Evening Post, The Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, The Daily Mirror, The Sunday Mirror, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, The Economist, The Evening Standard, The Express, The Express on Sunday, The Guardian, The Independent, The Independent on Sunday, The Irish Independent, The Sunday Independent, The News of the World, The Observer, The Sun, The Sunday Times, The Times, The Western Daily Press.

Home login: Once connected enter the letters ANP followed by your complete library card number with no gaps. Then select 'Log in'.
Library access: No Username or password needed.
Other formats:All Bristol Libraries have daily newspapers.

Use Newsbank.
View Instructions for using Newsbank. (pdf, 86 KB)

Description: Pathé produced short Newsreels covering British cultural life from 1910 to the early 1970s. These film sources are available free as 'previews'. Relive the opening of 'The Portway' or the first arrival of the banana boats in Bristol. Do you remember the 1953 floods, the snowy winter of 1963? What about newsreels shown in cinemas during World War II? Both local and national events are captured here for posterity.

Home login: No Username or password needed.
Library access: No Username or password needed.

Use Pathé News.

Description: Complete facsimile copy of the Times newspaper from 1785-1985. Content from 1986 onwards is available on Newsbank. All the text is fully indexed and searchable - advertisements, captions for photographs and illustrations, personal notices, sports results, wartime casualty lists.

Home login: Once connected fill in the 'Library membership number' box - enter the letters ANP followed by your complete library card number with no gaps. Then select 'Proceed'.
Library access: No Username or password needed.
NB - our license only allows 2 people to use the service at the same time. Please try again later if you cannot log on straight away.

Use Times Digital Archive.
View Instructions for using the Times Digital Archive.  (pdf, 175 KB)