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News Archive for July, 2016

  • From the Arctic to the Caribbean: Film Indexes and Databases on the Moving Image Gateway

    This Gateway includes over 1,900 websites relating to moving image and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or amendments, please contact us by email or telephone (020 7393 1500). Afbare – Arctic Documentary Films The Arctic and Barents Documentary Film database contains records for over 35,000 […]

  • New BoB Twitter handle

    We’re updating the BoB Twitter account to reflect our new branding; you can now find BoB @OnDemandBoB. All our followers and previous tweets will stay attached to the new handle, so if you’re following us you don’t need to do anything. Just make sure you tag @OnDemandBoB in your BoB tweets, as the old handle will no longer […]

  • An even better BoB is here…

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    BoB is our on demand television and radio service for education, and an even better version is here…

  • Media Screen Round-up, June 2016

    The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research and published at the BUFVC by Andrew Ormsby This month’s round-up includes journal articles on the use of early newsreel footage in war reporting, and a look at how amateur films were used to construct identity in postwar Britain. […]

  • Brexit, climate change and Hamlet the game theorist: latest additions to the Moving Image Gateway

    This Gateway includes over 1,900 websites relating to moving image and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or amendments, please contact us by email or telephone (020 7393 1500). All Squared Lively mathematics podcast featuring Katie Steckles and Christian Perfect in conversation with interesting mathematicians. The […]