{"id":2284,"date":"2018-08-03T09:06:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T09:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/?p=2284"},"modified":"2018-08-03T09:07:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T09:07:17","slug":"new-to-the-library-illustrated-london-news-historical-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/2018\/08\/03\/new-to-the-library-illustrated-london-news-historical-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"New to the Library: Illustrated London News Historical Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m delighted to let you know that the Library now has access to The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003<\/strong> from Gale Cengage. Illustrated London News<\/em> was the world\u2019s first pictorial weekly newspaper and this archive gives access to the full run of this iconic illustrated newspaper.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

You can access The Illustrated London News Historical Archive<\/strong> via the Databases A-Z list<\/strong> <\/a>and the Newspapers & Magazine databases list<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The first issue of Illustrated London News<\/em> was published on\u00a0Saturday 14 May 1842 and as the world\u2019s first fully illustrated weekly newspaper, it marked a revolution in journalism and news reporting.<\/p>\n

\"\"

Screenshot from front page of Illustrated London News, May 14, 1842; pg. [1]; Issue 1.<\/p><\/div>The newspaper presented a vivid picture of British and world events and commissioned a large number of artists and draughtsmen to cover wars, royal events, scientific invention, and exploration.<\/p>\n

\"\"

Screenshot from Illustrated London News Historical Archive. Illustrated London News (London, England), Saturday, May 12, 1945; pg. [1]; Issue 5534.<\/p><\/div>Founded by Herbert Ingram it was a weekly publication up until the early 1970s after which publication became much more infrequent up until 2003 when it ceased publication.<\/p>\n

\"\"

Screenshot from Illustrated London News Historical Archive showing first colour supplement. Illustrated London News, December 22, 1855; Issue 775 and 776 Christmas (Supplement).<\/p><\/div>\n

The Illustrated London News<\/em> gives you a different perspective on events happening during 1842-2003 and provides a valuable alternative voice to other newspaper archives the Library already has access to for that period e.g. The Times Digital Archive<\/strong>, The Guardian and The Observer<\/strong> Historical Archive<\/strong>, The Scotsman<\/strong> Historical Archive<\/strong>,\u00a0 Daily Mail Historical Archive<\/strong>, The New York Times<\/strong> Historical Archive<\/strong>, etc. You can access these databases and the many more that are available via the Newspapers & Magazines databases list<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can cross-search\u00a0The Illustrated London News Historical Archive<\/strong> along with the other newspaper archives we have access to from Gale, via Gale\u2019s NewsVault<\/a>. You can also cross-search with other primary source archives from Gale via Gale Primary Sources<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can access The Illustrated London News<\/strong> via the Databases A-Z list<\/strong> <\/a>and the Newspapers & Magazine databases list<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can access all the online newspaper archives already available at the Library via the Newspapers & Magazines database list<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Access is only available to current students and staff at University of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

Caroline Stirling \u2013 Academic Support Librarian for History, Classics and Archaeology<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m delighted to let you know that the Library now has access to The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003 from Gale Cengage. Illustrated London News was the world\u2019s first pictorial weekly newspaper and this archive gives access to the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,3,4,164],"tags":[64,119,97,133,7,6,18,17,65],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7dF2q-AQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2284"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2296,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions\/2296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}