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Newspapers and other online news sources from the 17th-21st centuries

Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: Online
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Thursday, 28 May 2026, 11.30am to 1pm

Newspapers are a valuable resource for researching not only news but also many other aspects of political, economic, social and cultural life. In this session we will introduce key online sources of news and how to make best use of them. The focus will be on historical and contemporary newspapers from the 17th century across most countries of the world.

After the session participants will understand: the value of newspapers in research; the difficulties of using newspapers in research and effective search techniques, and be able to use a range of sources for searching and reading (including historical newspapers, contemporary newspapers
and audio-visual news sources).

Intended audience: Taught student; Researcher and research student

Speaker(s): Jo Gardner, Isabel Holowaty, Rachel D'Arcy Brown

Series: Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Department: Bodleian Information Skills (Unit)

Organiser: Helen Bond

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