Keesing's World News Archive
Founded in 1931, Keesing’s quickly became the trusted source upon which experts on international affairs from around the world rely to establish objective, historical facts concerning world events. Each month from our office in Cambridge, UK, we write and publish Keesing’s Record of World Events, the successor to the weekly Keesing’s Contemporary Archives. The Keesing’s archive comprises the full text of these two consecutive reference series.
Keesing’s has been used for decades in numerous government offices of foreign affairs and intelligence agencies. Major news bureaux, encyclopedias, news magazines, and think-tanks keep Keesing’s at hand because they know that it can give instant historical perspective by providing detailed, accurate, and concise information on the places, people, and events that contribute to today’s breaking news.
Keesing’s website applies the latest search technologies to explore this exclusive data archive of more than 98,000 detailed, authoritative, and concise reports which record and describe the world’s major political, economic, and social events since 1931. Each month we add at least 150 stories, comprising more than 60,000 words, which summarise the previous month’s events. Extensive cross-reference links embedded within articles deliver instant historical context. Online subscribers also enjoy advanced searching, filtering, and clustering tools and the facility for users to assign their own tags to articles. Subscribers can cluster search results using their own tags, tags created by other users, or by the growing list of items that the Keesing’s editors have tagged. The tagging feature, along with the new function giving subscribers the ability to attach notes to Keesing’s articles and save them to a private portfolio, allows subscribers to create their own personal current affairs database in parallel to the Keesing’s archive.
Historical Spellings: Many countries have changed their names, merged, seceded, or gained independence during the 77 year span of our coverage. Investigating the possibility of an alternative country name may be a route to pursue if your search results are inexplicably poor. For example, if you are researching the history of Benin, the country would be referred to as Dahomey in articles earlier than 1975.
For more information please visit Keesing’s archive Website: http://www.keesings.com 
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