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- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoEBu2Q8ia_Plr7aQ7Twml69cRSfKI_3S
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Astronomy, Botany, Ethnology, Geology, History
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- Film/Video
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- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
Among the many millions of objects held across Cambridge University’s eight museums, Botanic Garden, Centre for South Asian Studies, and University Library, are a huge number of wonders related to the world’s largest democracy: India.
India Unboxed is a collection of eight short films telling the stories behind some of these objects. The videos, which are available via Cambridge University’s Youtube Channel, were created as part of a year-long celebration across the University and city of Cambridge to mark the UK–India Year of Culture 2017.
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- https://soundcloud.com/oupacademic
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- History, Law, Literature, Music
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- Radio/Sound
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- Streaming/Download
A selection of audio resources from the Oxford University Press. Music, literature, history and the law are well represented. Editors of the Oxford World’s Classic Series offer useful insights - ‘audio guides’ - into the works of their authors. The selections include Jane Austen’s teenage writings, ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ by Henry James, Tolstoy’s ‘Anna Karenina’, Henry Mayhew’s ‘London Labour and the London Poor’ and many others.
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- https://sketchfab.com/britishmuseum
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
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- Archaeology, History
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- Film/Video
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- Archives/Museums
The British Museum has created a series of 3 dimensional digital models of some of the artefacts in its collections and put them online. It is now possible to manipulate and rotate the Lewis chess set, the Rosetta Stone, a marble portrait of Julius Caesar, a column from the temple to Artemis at Ephesus and many others. Some of the models are accompanied by audio descriptions to add context and extra information.
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- http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- History, Politics and Government, Psychology
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Bi-weekly podcast produced by a group called The New York City Skeptics, covering aspects of critical thinking, philosophy, science and ethics, with forays into history, politics and psychology. The podcast features guests from a wide range of academic disciplines. The podcasts are free and are accompanied by full transcripts.
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- http://revisionisthistory.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Education, History
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- Radio/Sound
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- Streaming/Download
Podcast in ten episodes presented by Malcolm Gladwell, who, in each programmes, revisits an idea, person or event from history, that has been overlooked, forgotten, or misunderstood. Amongst the subjects explored by Gladwell are the inequalities of the American higher education system, an undercover research project undertaken by the Pentagon in Vietnam and Elizabeth Thompson Butler, a 19th century painter.
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- http://www.boweryboyshistory.com/bowery-boys-podcast
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- Arts and Humanities
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- American Studies, History
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Two New Yorkers - Tom Meyers and Greg Young - present a series of podcasts about the history of their city, exploring hidden stories from the metropolis, often focusing on a particular person, place or event and discussing everything from sport and politics to crime and music.
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- https://ifiplayer.ie/collections/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, History, Media Studies, Religious Studies, Social Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
The IFI Player presents a freely available selection of material from the collections of the Irish Film Archive. Feature films, animations, documentaries, adverts, amateur films, travelogues and newsreels tell the story of Irish social, political and cultural history in moving images. The site features a wealth of fascinating material - from this award winning film about W.B. Yeats to a Telecom Eireann advert in which Bob Geldof warns of the idiocy of vandalising public telephones. Other films explore the Troubles, the events of Easter 1916, the Irish emigrant experience in America, the Irish landscape, tourism and religion. Users can search by keyword, browse by genre, or explore the curated collections section. Some of the films are accompanied by classroom worksheets for teachers and students.
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- https://historyofjapan.wordpress.com/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- History
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Weekly podcast about the history of Japan produced by PhD student Isaac Meyer. Meyer’s approach is comprehensive and chronological. Contextual help is provided by a timeline and glossary.
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- https://coventryuniversity.podbean.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Art, Computing, Design, Economics, Education, History, Mathematics, Media Studies, Music, Politics and Government, Sports Science
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download, Web Links
This collection of podcasts features freely available recordings of lectures and talks from Coventry University. The podcasts are arranged according to category, which cover the full range of academic subjects, are arranged according to faculty and subject area as well as broader topics relating to the university itself.
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- https://www.ashmolean.org/podcasts
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Archaeology, Astronomy, German Studies, History, Languages, Literature
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- Film/Video
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Series of curated podcasts in which an academic from Oxford University chooses an object from the Ashmolean Museum and speaks about it in the context of their own research and interests. Historians, scientists, mathematicians and linguists take their turn, amongst them Diarmaid MacCulloch speaking about the Reformation in the context of a medal from the reign of Henry VIII and Marcus Du Sautoy on the mathematical implications of carved neolithic stones.
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