NEWSPAPER, THE MEDIA AND POLITICS
- Online Databases
- Online newspapers
- News agencies and organisations
- Television, radio and cinema sites
- Parliaments and Government
- Political parties
Online Databases
- Gazettes online: search the London, Belfast and Edinburgh gazettes
- Infotrac Newspapers:
Our subscription to Infotrac Newspapers cover full text access to the following titles:
Financial Times January 2nd 1996 - Current The Guardian January 1st 1990 - Current New York Times January 1st 1985 - Current The Sunday Times July 7th 1985 - Current The Times July 1st 1985 - Current - Times Digital Archive 1785 - 1985
Online newspapers
Many national newspapers and some local newspapers now have websites that contain the day's stories as well as a limited archive of previous day's stories.
- Belfast Telegraph
- Daily Express
- Daily Mirror
- Evening Standard
- Financial Times
- The Guardian
- The Independent
- Online newspapers: a directory of newspaper websites around the world.
- The Scotsman
- Telegraph
- Times and Sunday Times
The Times Literary Supplement and Times Higher Education Supplement also have their own Websites:
News agencies and organisations
Television, radio and cinema
- BBC listings: information about BBC programmes and listings.
- British Film Institute: information relating to all aspects of the film industry.
- Internet Movie Database: information about films from the early twentieth century onwards.
Parliaments and Government
- European Parliament website
- House of Commons Hansard: sessions of Hansard for the House of Commons dating back to 1989
- House of Lords Hansard: sessions of Hansard for the House of Lords dating back to 1996
- Houses of Parliament Website
- Mayor of London and Greater London Authority Website
- Oultwood Local Government Website: links to local government and councillors' Websites
- Political science resources: an exhaustive set of links to politics sites worldwide by Richard Kimber.
- Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674-1834
- 2001 Census on-line: the results of the 2001 national census
Political Parties
These parties have one or more MPs in the House of Commons:
- Conservatives
- Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern
- Labour
- Liberal Democrats
- Plaid Cymru
- Respect - The Unity Coalition
- Scottish National Party
- Sinn Fein
- Social Democratic and Labour Party
- Ulster Democratic Unionist Party
- Ulster Unionist Party
These parties have representatives in either the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly, Greater London Assembly or European Parliament:
- Green Party of England and Wales
- Green Party of Scotland
- Scottish Socialist Party
- UK Independence Party
- Veritas
Popular electronic resources
Bibliography of British and Irish History
International Bibliography of Art
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Times Digital Archive 1785 - 1985
Times Literary Supplement Archive
