New Books

New books have been added to the Brotherton Library. You can find a list on the library website at: http://lib5.leeds.ac.uk/ralist/bl0.htm

New Books

New books have been added to the Brotherton Library. You can find a list on the library website at: http://lib5.leeds.ac.uk/ralist/bl0.htm

NewsFilm Online

Selected news from the ITN/Reuters archive is now available via NewsFilm Online at: http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b2999437~S4 NewsFilm Online is a JISC-funded service comprising a selection of news stories and programme scripts – some 3,000 hours of footage; c. 60,000 stories. Video playback and downloading are available to staff and students.
You can access the service via the Library Catalogue or the list of databases for Communication Studies. You then need to select the University of Leeds from the Federated Search screen, and then log in with your ISS username and password.

The John Johnson Collection

The John Johnson collection of printed ephemera from the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, is now freely available online at: http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b2999119~S4 It contains some 65,000 printed items produced in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and covers many different types of printed document, including posters and handbills for various entertainments, broadsides relating to murders and executions, book and journal prospectuses, popular topographical prints, and a range of printed advertising material. The collection is a rich source of material on life in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.