Recognised as one the most important historical archives ever assembled, BBC Monitoring: Summary of World Broadcasts is now available as a digital primary source collection for the first time.
Published by the historical e-resource specialist Readex, this new collection:
Offers unprecedented academic research value
Comprises 70,000+ multi-page reports, containing millions of radio and television broadcasts translated into English by BBC Monitoring
Provides exceptional, first-hand, real-time coverage of the 20th century, with perspectives unavailable elsewhere
"This is the history of the world speaking to the world." – Nick Cull, Professor of Communication,
University of Southern California
Learn More and Explore
To find out more about BBC Monitoring: Summary of World Broadcasts, we invite your library to view the press release, read this blog post, and view this 1‑minute video from Readex:
Text Analysis Tools for Researchers
Readex is passionate about supporting academic research in the Digital Humanities.
Their new collection, BBC Monitoring: Summary of World Broadcasts, is enhanced by a range of text analysis tools, known as the Readex Text Explorer.
Powered by Voyant Tools, the Readex Text Explorer enables researchers to identify and draw out linguistic and thematic patterns across multiple articles within the collection, and export them into a range of visualisations.
