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It happened today
I’ve been thinking about news lately. At the British Library we’ve just piloted a television and radio news service, called Broadcast News, which has selected news broadcasts from May 2010 onwards...
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The newsreel man
A recent article by Andrew O’Hagan in the London Review of Books has caused quite a stir. Written in the aftermatch of the Jimmy Savile scandal, it exposes a culture of child abuse from past decades...
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This is the news
I wear several hats. Some hats I have worn and now discarded; some hats I have tried to discard but they just won’t slip away. I have found this in my online life, where I have produced blogs on...
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News of the world
Part of ‘I Wanted to See All of the News From Today’ for 30 August 2013, 18:30 News is not an absolute. Though we talk about world news, what is news to one person is to necessarily news to another....
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Leaving Colindale
The national newspaper collection is on the move. Next month, the British Newspaper Library – part of the British Library – will be leaving Colindale, north London, its home since 1932. Countless...
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The Newsroom
The other Newsroom Every now and again someone will come up to me and say that they like something on my blog, and I have to ask them which one. I have produced too many websites, blogs and the like...
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Look! We Have Come Through!
Video wall in the Newsroom I didn’t know what to call this post, but whenever I’ve been through some tumultuous period and come out the other side, the exultant title of D.H. Lawrence’s 1917 book of...
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News of the Week as Shown in Films
Motography, 28 November 1914, via the Media History Digital Library One of my favourite items popping up on my feed reader (thank you NetVibes) is the weekly News of the Week feature from the...
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It speaks for itself
‘A million minutes of filmed history’ – someone in the communications team of the AP Archive must have been mightily pleased when they came up with that tag line for promoting their release online of...
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From print to digital
The Independent, from independent.co.uk This is the text of a blog post on the archiving of news which I wrote recently for the British Library’s Newsroom blog. Wherever possible – or wherever it...
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Spotless
Spotlight I went to the cinema this afternoon to see Spotlight, and I was very impressed. It is fully deserving of its Academy Award. It is not only a gripping, sobering account of priestly child abuse...
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Found online # 2 – Newspaper archives
Welsh Newspapers Online Returning (a little later than planned) to this occasional series on useful online resources, here’s a listing of newspaper archives. I happen to work at one of the world’s...
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Newsreels and history
Gaumont-British News team, c.1936 This is the text of a talk I gave to a research event on newsreels at CIAC research centre, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal, on 9 February 2017. I’ve also...
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Printer’s devil
Richard Coyle as Larry Lamb (below) and Bertie Carvel as Rupert Murdoch, in Ink (via almeida.co.uk) Ink is a new play running at the Almeida Theatre in London, written by James Graham, author of the...
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Newspaper data and news identity
Below is the text of a paper I gave recently at ‘Language Matters‘, the 5th Transfopress Encounter in Paris. Transfopress is an international network of archivists, librarians and scholars interested...
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Robot news
Xinhua’s English-speaking, AI-generated newsanchor Xinhua, China’s state news agency, announced this week what was claimed to be the world’s first AI news anchor. It presented to a conference in Wuzhen...
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Collecting news
Corante, or, Newes from Italy, Germany, Hungarie, Spaine and France (September 1621), British Library In two years’ time, it will be the four hundredth anniversary of the newspaper in this country. The...
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Filming Windrush
Windrush arrivals, from ‘Pathé Reporter Meets’, Pathé News 48/51I have been having an online discussion with a couple of journalists about newsreels of the Empire Windrush and the arrival of West...
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Nobody knows anything
The screenwriter William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President’s Men, The Princess Bride) wrote one of the essential books on Hollywood, Adventures in the Screen Trade. Among...
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Analysing the past
There are exciting changes happening in how we use newspapers to study the past. After decades in which the use of newspapers in research meant leafing through volumes or scrolling through microfilms,...
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