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- https://radharc.ie/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Religious Studies, Social Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Archives/Museums
Radharc was an Irish television documentary religious affairs series broadcast by RTÉ Television from 1962 until 1996. The documentaries were created by a film unit funded by the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, John Charles McQuaid, in anticipation of the inauguration of television broadcasting in Ireland by RTÉ in December 1961. The film unit was staffed exclusively by Catholic priests, including Joe Dunn, Desmond Forristal and Sean Lemass. The Irish language word radharc means vision, view, or panorama.
The Radharc collection is one of the most important and substantial bodies of work held by the Irish Film Institute. The collection totals some 2,340 cans and 2,093 broadcast quality tapes. Over 130 documentaries deal with non-Irish issues. The material acquired comprises the various preservation elements required to produce a finished documentary, including soundtracks, voiceovers, sound effects, off cuts, final mix negatives, cutting copies and final prints, with copyright in the films shared between the Radharc Trust and RTÉ.
A number of the titles can be viewed freely on the website.
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- https://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/thenewsroom/2015/06/uk-general-election-2015-the-broadcast-archive.html
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Media Studies, Politics and Government, Social Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums
The British Library undertook an intensive recording programme of UK television and radio broadcasts covering the 2015 general election. 1,775 programmes were recorded between 26 March (the date of the first TV debate) and 8 May, including the full election night broadcasts of all the main UK channels, plus those of BBCs Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, STV, and reporting of the night’s events from Al Jazeera English, CNN, France 24 and Russia Today. There are party political broadcasts, manifesto launches, debates, campaign events, press conferences, documentaries, leader profiles, interviews, dramas, comedies and news broadcasts, from 27 television and radio channels.
The full list of programmes, listed by date and classified by programme type, is available to download as an XLS spreadsheet. All the programmes are available to researchers at either of the British Library’s two sites – St Pancras in London and Boston Spa in Yorkshire.
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- https://www.aamarchives.org/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- History, Politics and Government, Social Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums, Video Sources
This site tells the story of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement and its campaigns to support the people of South Africa in their fight against apartheid. The AAM also conducted similar campaigns for Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Angola, and against South Africa’s attacks on its neighbours. The website features a plethorra of digitised resources including audio interviews with people who were involved in the movement, and videos of interviews, promotional films and footage of events, rallies and festivals. There are many other digitised resources, including leaflets, posters, conference programmes, badges, annual reports, postcards etc. All the resources are accompanied by a description, with rights information and other metadata where available, as well as textual information covering the history of the movement and its campaigns.
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- https://www.chomsky.info/index.htm
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- Social Sciences
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- American Studies, Languages, Media Studies, Politics and Government, Social Studies
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- Reviews, Video Sources, Web Links
The official website of American linguist, cognitive scientist and political theorist and activist, Noam Chomsky. Simply designed and clearly laid out, the site has biographies, a bibliography and links to transcripts of interviews, articles, interviews and reviews. The Audio and Video page has hundreds of links to recordings of talks, interviews and speeches with Chomsky, dating back to the early 1970s, including this debate, filmed at the Eindhoven University of Technology in 1971, between Chomsky and French philosopher Michel Foucault on the subject of human nature.
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- http://podacademy.org/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, Film Studies, Literature, Media Studies, Politics and Government, Social Studies
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Blogs, Podcasting
A platform for podcasts covering the arts, social sciences, business and economics, and science and the environment, this independent, not-for-profit initiative was set up in 2011 by a group of academics, journalists and IT specialists and aims to keep abreast of research in the academy as well as work that throws light on events in the news, thus combining rigorous scholarship with an up-to-the-minute accessibility. Recent podcasts include Laura Mulvey’s Death 24x a second in which she analyses the relationship between stillness and the moving image in cinema; an interview with Angela Phillips, Reader in Journalism at Goldsmiths, University of London and chair of the ethics committee of the organisation, Media Reform on the background to the Leveson Inquiry; and a look at Youth unemployment in the UK with author Callum Biggins who has written about the subject for the London-based liberal think tank CentreForum.
All the podcasts are accompanied by a full transcript and the site also features a blog and links to other educational sites.
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- http://www.learnhigher.ac.uk/groupwork//index.php
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- Social Sciences
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- Social Studies
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- Streaming/Download
Hosted by the LearnHigher website, this video resource is designed to help students and teachers understand and overcome the challenges of group work projects. It takes the form of a dramatised case study - divided into ten episodes - which follows the progress of a group of students who have been randomly selected to work together to develop a presentation entitled ‘The barriers to learning’. Each episode focuses on a particular challenge, such as planning, allocation of tasks, dealing with conflict within the group, coping with a tutor who has poor communication skills and a final section in which each student summarises their view of the experience, both good and bad. Some of the episodes are accompanied by a follow-up video which analyses what has taken place and profers alternative scenarios. and videos are accompanied by a variety of textual hints and tips designed to facilitate discussion.
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- https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Advertising, American Studies, Architecture, Environmental Studies, Geography, Photography, Social Studies, Women’s Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Distributors, Footage Sources
Gigantic company offering rights managed and royalty free content, including moving images, music as well as stills. Getty now manages collections previously known as Image Bank and Archive Films (see separate entries).
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- https://www.altfg.com/blog/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, Politics and Government, Social Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Blogs
Since 2005, the Los Angeles-based Alt Film Guide (formerly ‘Alternative Film Guide’) has been offering an ‘alternative’, offbeat look at the world of film. The blog contains thought-provoking reviews, in-depth interviews with filmmakers and authors, and extensive coverage of film awards, gay-related cinema and gay film festivals around the world, World Cinema classics, Old Hollywood classics, DVD releases, and assorted film events in the Los Angeles area.
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- http://audioboo.fm/
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- Social Studies, Technology
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- Radio/Sound
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- Blogs
Site for the iPhone audio blogging application. Audio recordings with photos attached can be uploaded to the website and linked to webpages and Facebook. Further developments are in development including links to Twitter.
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- http://vision.port.ac.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Agriculture, Geography, History, Social Studies
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- Archives/Museums, Information Sources
The Vision of Britain Through Time website, an initiative of the Great Britain Historical GIS (GBH-GIS) based at the University of Portsmouth. gives e-access to over two centuries’ worth of facts, figures, surveys, maps, election results and travel writing showing how 15,000 UK places have changed. It includes new-to-view historic boundary maps, a land use survey that helped to defeat Hitler, unemployment and wage records, farm surveys from 1866, the biggest e-library of historic British travel writing and the results of every Parliamentary election since 1833.Funded by JISC as part of a programme to offer a wider audience free access to academic research and resources.
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