We’ve extended access to some of our heavily used newspaper archives in a cost-effective way by taking advantage of the discounted rate offered by the Gale Accelerate programme.
Permanent access
We have permanent access to the additional years of the following archives. These complement our existing Gale holdings which you can access through NUsearch.
This archive covers the full run of The Independent from its first issue in 1986, with the supplement increasing coverage to 2021. The collection also includes The Independent on Sunday from 1990-2016.
This supplement increases the coverage of The Sunday Times archive, beginning in 1822. It was a separate paper from The Times until 1st January 1967, when both papers came under the common ownership of Times Newspapers Ltd. To this day, The Sunday Times remains editorially independent from The Times with its own remit and perspective on the news.
This supplement increases the coverage The Daily Telegraph, beginning in 1855, as well as The Sunday Telegraph, launched in 1961.
This digitised collection includes seventeenth and eighteenth century English news media available from the British Library. Part 2 adds the Burney Additional Newspapers collection, which includes pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks, and newspapers from across the period.
British Library Newspapers delivers a wide range of local and regional voices to reflect the social, political, and cultural events of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Adding to our existing access to Parts I-V, Part VI: Ireland is a collection focussing on Irish newspapers and digitised microfilm, and Part VII: Southeast Asia is a collection of English-language newspapers and periodicals published in former British colonies in Southeast Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand).
Extended temporary access
By signing up to the Gale Accelerate programme for one year, we’re also able to bring you extended access to the following primary sources which members of the academic community have previously been interested in.
At the end of this academic year, access to these four sources will end. However, we’ll evaluate usage and hope to leverage the value for money provided by this programme to expand our access permanently to at least one of them. Please send any feedback to the Libraries Collections team: collections@nottingham.ac.uk
This collection features newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets, and broadsheets that form the Nichols newspaper collection held at the Bodleian library, covering the period 1672-1737.
This primary source collection provides an extensive illustration of the developing world that was nineteenth century Britain. The archive provides a wealth of material on politics and political figures in the age of discontent and reform, working-class radicalism and the political response, as well as other developments in nineteenth century society, such as industrialisation, social deprivation and religion.
These documents cover the State Papers series relating to France, Dunkirk, Portugal, Spain, Malta, the Italian States and Rome, Genoa, Tuscany, Venice, Savoy and Sardinia, Sicily and Naples. The Treaties series contains various diplomatic records, and the Royal Letters series includes mainly original letters from foreign royal personages, and drafts of letters from members of the British royal family.
The Listener was a weekly magazine established by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in 1929. It was developed as the medium for reproducing broadcast talks, initially on radio, but in later years television as well, and was the intellectual counterpart to the BBC listings magazine Radio Times.
Posted on Monday 15th September 2025