Newspapers on Microfilm
- Free - Just ask a member of the library team to book an appointment
- Reading Room
Part of: Free activities and events, Chester Heritage Festival 2022
Part of: Free activities and events, Chester Heritage Festival 2022
We have over 274 years’ worth of Cheshire newspapers on microfilm. Our collection starts at 1733 and ends at 2009. You are welcome to use our microfilm reader for free. Just ask a member of the library team to book an appointment.
Microfilm is a method of preserving and storing large amounts of printed material in the space of a small reel. It is ideal for newspapers as they’re bulky to store and the newsprint paper they’re printed on deteriorates rapidly.
Each page of the newspaper is copied and minimised down to a tiny image, and these are then printed consecutively on a reel of film. The images can later be expanded and displayed using specialised equipment, which allows users to scroll the film from page to page.
As the majority of newspapers only have online content starting in the 1990s, microfilm can be a useful source of information that you may not be able to access otherwise. For example, we’ve used our microfilm collection to do research on our building from when it opened as an ODEON cinema in 1936 to its closure in 2007 and the beginning of plans for Storyhouse.
1pm - 5pm
Looking to queer figures and their stories as our stimulus and inspiration, this celebratory workshop will focus on both writing and performing spoken word poetry.
Learn new skills, perfect existing ones, earn your Secret Spy badge, make new friends and have lots of fun this February half-term!
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Looking to queer figures and their stories as our stimulus and inspiration, this celebratory workshop will focus on both writing and performing spoken word poetry.
Learn new skills, perfect existing ones, earn your Secret Spy badge, make new friends and have lots of fun this February half-term!
Join everyone’s favourite family doctor, Dr Amir Khan, for a fascinating, heart-warming, and frequently hilarious evening.
Youth Vibe over 18s is a group for D/deaf, Hearing loss or CODA people ages 18-25 to meet like-minded friends and have fun.
PopVox Choir is a contemporary fun and friendly choir for adults. They will be performing at Storyhouse as part of Storyhouse women.
Student nurses from Chester University will be showcasing their newly formed choir at Storyhouse.
1 hr 29 | A young boy and an adolescent girl, who have travelled to Belgium from Africa, pit their invincible friendship against the cruel conditions of their exile.
1 hr 35 | A darkly comic film about terrible people. Signe and Thomas are in an unhealthy competitive relationship that takes a vicious turn
1 hr 51 | The complex, subtle, tender and heart-rending story of a young girl’s journey to adolescence in a village menaced by drug cartels and people traffickers.
1 hr 49 | A teacher struggling for inspiration is sent to the remotest school in the world. It takes being so far away to understand the importance of his work.