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- http://www.witness.group.shef.ac.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- History, Social Studies
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- Radio/Sound
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- Blogs, Streaming/Download
An oral history project created by the History Department at the University of Sheffield. The interviews were carried out by trained history students in the department. Common themes include Sheffield during World War II, local politics, youth culture and the music scene, the Miners’ Strikes and the impact of deindustrialisation on the city. A separate resource documents the history of the Walkley Action Group, a campaigning group which protested against planned slum demolition in the 1970s. A blog keeps users appraised of updates to the site.
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- http://www.darrenreidhistory.co.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- American Studies, History
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
This website was created by Dr Darren Reid who teaches American Studies at the University of Edinburgh and features podcasts, interviews, links, and reviews on American cutlure and history. Reid’s site hosts his two main podcasts: one on the History of the American Frontier, the other on The Artist in American History which presents a series of lectures and documentaries which explore how comic books have reflected and informed the societies that made them. Another of Reid’s podcasts - American Studies and History- is available at iTunes and considers American history through the lens of artists, musicians, chroniclers and film makers.
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- https://askhistorians.libsyn.com/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- History
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- Radio/Sound
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- Discussion Lists, Podcasting, Streaming/Download
This podcast was created by the moderators of the largest online history forum, askhistorians.reddit.com and aims to provide serious, academic-level answers to questions about history. The content includes interviews with experts and highlights particularly useful answers from the forums.
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- https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- History, Languages, Literature
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting
A fortnightly podcast which offers a chronological history of the English language, beginning with its Indo-European roots and tracing its development via its Germanic origins and relationships to other languages. The podcast’s host Kevin Stroud is knowledgeable and communicates clearly, covering aspects of linguistics, writing, palaeography and ancient history, as well as his core subject. The podcast, which comes out fortnightly, is free and is also available on iTunes.
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- https://www.commonwealthoralhistories.org/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- History, Politics and Government
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Blogs, Streaming/Download, Web Links
The aim of this AHRC-funded project is to produce a digital research resource on the history of the Commonwealth since 1965, based on sixty interviews with major figures in the recent history of the organisation. Politicians, diplomats and civil servants discuss the evolution of the Commonwealth, focusing on key themes including leadership; mediation; bilateral and collaborative international pressure for racial justice; developmental issues and democratisation. An introductory page gives a Chronology of significant events. Researchers can search the reource by interviewee name, theme and by country discussed. There is also a helpful Glossary of names and terms, and Citation advice. Full transcripts of the interviews are available on the site and can also be downloaded as PDFs.
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- https://www.dovermuseum.co.uk/Exhibitions/Coal-Mining-in-Kent/Oral-History.aspx
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- History, Social Studies
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Databases, Streaming/Download
The CHIK project was set up to record the memories and life experiences of the people of the coalfield communities of Kent. Following a ‘life history’ approach, rather than focusing on a particular topic, these recordings cover not only miners’ working lives in the collieries of East Kent, but also memories of school, childhood games, sports, and the whole range of domestic, cultural and social activities and relationships. The archive, which is held by Dover Museum, consists of over 200 hours of recordings, a selection of which is freely available to listen to on this website.
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- http://www.het.org.uk
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- History, Politics and Government
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- Radio/Sound
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- Blogs, Courses, Organisations, Podcasting, Streaming/Download, Web Links
This is the website of an organisation which works with schools, colleges and communities across the UK to educate about the Holocaust and its contemporary relevance. The website features details of the trust’s outreach activities, conferences, and other events, as well as a blog and links to related sites. A series of Podcasts featuring interviews and lectures are freely available to download, or can be subscribed to via iTunes.
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- https://www.historyextra.com/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- History
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Blogs, Journals, Podcasting, Streaming/Download, TV/Radio listings, Web Links
This is the official website of the BBC History Magazine. The digital editions of the magazine are only available to paying subscribers but there is a substantial amount of free content, including a news section, book reviews, TV and radio listings and a weekly podcast, which is free to download, and has an archive dating back to 2007. There is also a series of blogs by various contributors, many of which include video content, such as this interview with Dr Hannah Dawson about the history of ideas, which considers Thomas Hobbes and his definition of the Social Contract.
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- https://www.city.ac.uk/cambridge-spies-the-guy-burgess-files
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- History, Media Studies, Politics and Government
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Streaming/Download, Web Links
This fascinating microsite presents the only known audio recording of spy Guy Burgess, which was made by Burgess in 1951, just before he defected to the Soviet Union. In the recording, Burgess recalls his meeting with Winston Churchill in 1938. The tape was recovered from the FBI by two academics at City University: former head of ITN, Professor Stewart Purvis and media historian Jeff Hulbert. The site tells not only the story of how Purvis and Hulbert tracked down the recording but also includes a contextual essay on the significance of the tape, an events timeline, a full transcript of the tape’s contents, an FBI memo by J. Edgar Hoover, a video recording of the moment when Purvis and Hulbert opened the package from the FBI, and a Channel 4 News report by Michael Crick about the story.
The material is all freely available on the site. Researchers wishing to download any of the content are required to fill in a short request form.
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- https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/collections/world-war-I
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- History, Literature
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Information Sources, Streaming/Download, Video Sources
This digital archive was launched on the 100th anniversary of the First World War. Featuring contributions from ten national libraries and twenty film archives, there are 500,000 digital objects here, with resources from three big European projects, each dealing with different materials relating to World War One. The site collates material from Stories From the Public, Europeana Collections 1914 - 1918 and The European Film Gateway 1914 projects, as well as including additional items from New Zealand, Australia and America.
The British Library, who have contributed to this project, have created their own World War One educational resource, designed for secondary school and FE teachers and students. This includes 500 newly digitised resources from Europeana 1914-1918, accompanied by newly-commissioned articles by historians as well as teachers’ notes.
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