Library Guides/ English Language and Culture

Newspapers

A list of available current newspapers and newspaper archives, licensed by the library or freely available online

Current newspapers

Financial Times This link opens in a new window
British online newspaper that focuses on business and economic current affairs.
Le Monde This link opens in a new window
Online access to Le Monde. Latest 30 editions in pdf and 365 days rolling archive on the website. max. 10 simultaneous users.
max. 10 simultaneous users. Articles up to one year old can be read online.
The New York Times This link opens in a new window
Online access to The New York Times articles from 1851-1922 and from 1980 to the present.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Dutch and foreign newspapers and other sources for news and journalism.
Gale OneFile: News This link opens in a new window
Access major U.S. and international newspapers online to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, or other fields

Licensed newspaper archives

The Guardian (1821-2003) & The Observer (1791-2003) This link opens in a new window
Early American newspapers This link opens in a new window
Los Angeles Times 1881-1997 This link opens in a new window
New York Times 1851-2018 This link opens in a new window

Other online archives

Delpher (kranten) This link opens in a new window
Digitized Dutch newspapers from 1618 to 1995
Chronicling America This link opens in a new window
Over 1400 American newspaper titles from 1836 - 1922

Independent Voices
Independent Voices is an open access collection of American alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals. The series 'Little magazines' contains many alternative literary magazines published during the latter half of the 20th century.

AM Explorer. Global Humanities This link opens in a new window
Collections of primary sources from the 15th to the 21st century.

The Arden Shakespeare Miscellany
A gem of a reference book covering everything you could possibly want to know about Shakespeare between two handsome covers. Entries are quite short and range from ""What did Shakespeare look like?"", ""Shakespeare on Film"" and lists of compliments, oathes, lovers'' vows and boys and girls names. There is an entry for each play too, summarising its plot and outlining major characters and themes. Details are given of the debates surrounding Shakespeare''s identity, the known and fanciful facts of his life, and descriptions of the theatres in which he worked and the acting companies of which he.
Beowulf
Original text with verse translation by J.G. Nichols.

Cambridge Companions Online
Full-text access to the 'companions' series of Cambridge University Press
Cambridge Histories Online
CHO is a digital collection of 250+ titles published since 1960 as part of the Cambridge Histories series. The collection presents an authoritative reference compendium for histories of many countries (e.g. Britain, Europe, US, Middle East, Far East, Latin America).
Dictionary of Old English Corpus (DOEC)
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
All books published in English from 1475-1700 in facsimile

Evans: Early American Imprints Series I en Supplement
This digital collection contains virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America from 1639 to 1800

ProQuest One Literature
Access to historical and contemporary content by and about celebrated and lesser-known authors from around the world.