From 1 August 2008 Newsfilm Online will deliver over 3,000 hours of news stories across the 20th Century and into the 2000s to subscribing institutions. Please visit www.nfo.ac.uk for access.
The site you are currently visiting was created for the scoping study of the digitisation project. It produced 67 news stories and associated clips which are FREELY accessible and may be browsed by decade or theme.
On 30-31 August 1958 London's Notting Hill witnessed serious race rioting. There was some alarm in the country at large. In a report prepared for a main evening news bulletin ITN's Reginald Bosanquet investigated the local black population's views on race relations in Notting Hill. He was joined in the report by the black journalist, Ernest Ickle, who sought to discover what local white residents felt.
This is a British Paramount newsreel report about the 1956 Suez crisis. British Paramount was notably the only British newsreel to make explicit references to there being opposition to the British government's policy and actions. At the time this story was released British and French troops were en route to Egypt, where they would make airborne and sea borne landings.
From 1 August 2008 Newsfilm Online will offer access to film and television news content to users throughout UK higher and further education. The newsfilm will be delivered in downloadable form. For subscription information please visit JISC Collections.
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