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- Link
- https://soundcloud.com/oupacademic
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- History, Law, Literature, Music
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- 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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- Link
- http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- History, Politics and Government, Psychology
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- 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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- Link
- http://www.boweryboyshistory.com/bowery-boys-podcast
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- American Studies, History
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- 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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- Link
- https://ifiplayer.ie/collections/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, History, Media Studies, Religious Studies, Social Studies
- Medium
- 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.
Other Online Moving image
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- Link
- https://historyofjapan.wordpress.com/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- History
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- 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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- Link
- https://coventryuniversity.podbean.com/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Art, Computing, Design, Economics, Education, History, Mathematics, Media Studies, Music, Politics and Government, Sports Science
- Medium
- 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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- Link
- https://www.ashmolean.org/podcasts
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Archaeology, Astronomy, German Studies, History, Languages, Literature
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- 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.
Other Online Moving image
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- Link
- http://australiansatwarfilmarchive.unsw.edu.au/
- Category
- Social Sciences
- Subject
- History
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
Over 2,000 video interviews, covering conflicts in which Australia has been involved, from World War One to Afghanistan . The archive encompasses the battlefront, the home front, media and entertainment, children, teachers, wives, workers and clerical staff. The project is an initiative of the Australian government and is hosted by the University of New South Wales, Canberra. Searching is done by theme - usually the name of the conflict - and then divided by sub-theme. Users can watch the interviews as video, or listen to them as audio files. Each interview is accompanied by a full transcript.
Other Online Moving image Audio
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- Link
- http://www.samthewheels.co.uk/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- History, Social Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Blogs, Streaming/Download
Clovis Salmon - aka Sam the Wheels - is a first generation Jamaican migrant who arrived in the UK in the 1950s. Between the 1960s and the 1980s Salmon filmed the everyday life of the Caribbean community in Brixton, making him one of the first black documentary filmmakers in Britain. This site is a participatory arts project featuring digitised footage from Salmon’s personal archives as well as numerous video interviews with Brixtonians, including gay rights activists, anarchist squatters, rectors, artists, Rastafarians and dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson. The site appears not to have been maintained for some time but most of the videos are still playing out.
Other Online Moving image
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- Link
- http://blogs.bard.edu/arendtcollection/
- Subject
- History, Politics and Government
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Databases, Streaming/Download
The Hannah Arendt Collection is a website featuring a selection of digitised materials from the collection held by the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. The site features a small number of audio clips including Arendt speaking on power and violence and then answering questions about the subject.
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