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- Link
- http://anzacsightsound.org/about
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Film Studies, History
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
Beautifully designed site featuring digitised footage, sounds and documents from New Zealand and Australian film archives about the First World War. The site was created to commemorate the centenary of Australia and New Zealand’s involvement in World War One by showcasing audio-visual material related to the war held by Nga Taonga Sound & Vision (NTSV) and the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA). Designed for browsing, the site has been arranged according to three main subjects: Homefronts, Battlefronts and Aftermath. Within each subject users can browse content arranged according to different themes, including cinema going, the home front, conscription, war in Europe, the Gallipoli Campaign, Anzac Day etc. Users can also search for material via an interactive timeline and map.
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Audio
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- Link
- http://thankfulvillages.co.uk/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- History, Music
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Blogs, Streaming/Download
Musician Darren Hayman has created this website to document his ‘project about rural life’ in which he visits every one of the 54 Thankful Vilages in England and Wales . A Thankful or Blessed Village, is the name given by writer and educator Arthur Mee to a settlement where every soldier returned alive from the First World War. The films, music and text on the site rarely refer directly to the Great War itself: Hayman’s project is more a way of exploring aspects of life in small rural communities and documenting his own responses to his journey through the music he makes - written and recorded in each village as he travels the country.
Other Online Moving image Audio
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- Link
- http://www.slate.com/articles/slate_plus/history_of_slavery.html
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- American Studies, History
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
Nine episode podcast series about the history of American slavery presented by Slate Magazine. Each episode is told from the point of view of a particular enslaved person, and takes a chronological approach in order to show how the institution of slavery changed over time. Presented by journalists Rebecca Onion and Jamelle Bouie, the series also features contributions from historians. There is a range of interesting supplementary materials, including an interactive animation which gives a powerful sense of the scale of the trans-Atlantic slave trade across time.
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- Link
- https://www.eh-resources.org/podcast/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Environmental Studies, Geography, History
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
This is a podcast about the history of human societies and their interaction with the environment. The periodic programmes feature interviews with academics and researchers working in the field, reports on conferences and discussions about the use and methods of environmental history. The podcasts are accompanied by brief bibliographical list and a textual summary. The podcasts cover a broad range of subjects including the climatic influence of forests, the problems of rewilding and the environmental history of the River Tyne.
The site is also linked to Environmental History Resources, which contains a blog, text essays and links to other environmental history resources on the web.
The website is maintained by Dr Jan Oosthoek, an environmental historian based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia who has lectured and researched at the Universities of Newcastle (UK) and Edinburgh.
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- Link
- https://www.socratica.com/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Archaeology, Art, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Geography, History, Languages, Literature, Mathematics, Physics
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Blogs, Streaming/Download
Educational videos on a wide variety of disciplines, inspired by the ethos that certain ideas and concepts benefit from being presented in an engaging audiovisual format. A blog on the ‘Socratica Method’ features highlights from the collection and information about the use of av material as a pedagogical tool. There are also four language channels: German, Spanish, Portuguese and French. Suitable for various levels, from primary to university. Although the videos are not arranged according to educational level it is generally clear from the context who the intended audience is.
Other Online Moving image
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- Link
- https://gastropod.com/
- Category
- Science and Technology
- Subject
- Biology, Food, General Science, History, Nature
- Type of resource
- Blogs, Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Gastropod looks at food from the perspective of science and history. The podcast is nicely designed and is produced and presented by Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley, who are both journalists with an academic background in the sciences. Witty and stimulating in equal measure and with an archive going back to 2014, there are two episodes a month, each one a mixture of short items and longer in-depth reports. Episodes have covered caffeine, fungi, alcohol consumption, the calorie as a unit of energy and snails. Each podcast comes with notes, and is often accompanied by stills and short videos. The podcasts are available on Soundcloud, iTunes and as RSS feeds.
Other Online
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- Link
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtwKon9qMt5YLVgQt1tvJKg/about
- Category
- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
- Subject
- Chemistry, History, Physics
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Organisations
A series of engaging, lively videos produced for the Royal Society. The format is simple: in each episode video journalist Brady Haran and Keith Moore, the Royal Society’s Librarian, look at a single object in the society’s collections and discuss its scientific and historical significance. Among the objects uncovered are Captain Cook’s quadrant, the letters of H.G. Wells, a very powerful 18th century magnet and some very expensive 19th century photographs.
Other Online Moving image
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- Link
- https://www.kanopystreaming.com/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Agriculture, American Studies, Archaeology, Art, Biology, Business Studies, Chemistry, Dance, Design, Economics, Education, Engineering, Film Studies, General Science, Geography, German Studies, History, Information Studies, Mathematics, Media Studies, Medicine, Music, Photography, Physics, Politics and Government, Social Studies, Technology, Women’s Studies
- Type of resource
- AV services, Streaming/Download, Video Sources
On-demand streaming platform for educational institutions featuring over 26,000 films from leading producers including PBS, BBC, the Criterion Collection, First Run Features, Media Education Foundation, but also many other smaller, niche producers. The site offers both a platform from which to stream films as well as providing a video hosting service. A full range of academic subjects is covered and many of the films, programmes and clips are not otherwise available on DVD. The site also features detailed analytics so that librarians can more easily assess how the site is being used by students. Subscription is based on paying only for the films which students and institutions actually watch.
Other Online
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- Link
- https://historyonthebox.wordpress.com/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- History
- Type of resource
- Blogs, Discussion Lists, Video Sources
Website created by history students and researchers at the University of Leicester with the aim of showing how clips from Box of Broadcasts (BoB) can be used in the teaching of history. Each entry focuses on an individual programme and includes a link to BoB. Many of the entries consider the appropriateness of the programme in the context of teaching, and whether it could be used best in primary, secondary or further and higher education.
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Record only
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- Link
- http://vectorsdev.usc.edu/NYCsound/777b.html
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- History, Social Studies
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
This site aims to recreate the soundscape of New York in the early twentieth century. Contemporary newsreel footage, with the live sound foregrounded, provides a fascinating perspective on a defining aspect of the urban experience during the Jazz Age. The bulk of the clips are taken from the 1920s but the time span runs between 1900 - 1932. Website navigation is via a beautifully designed map of New York city and the surrounding areas. The newsreel footage (mainly Fox Movietone) and sounds are enhanced by the presence of noise pollution complaints (some with documentation) from the time, taken from the Municipal Archives of New York, ranging from printing plants in Brooklyn to barking dogs in Queens.
Learning on Screen