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  1. Brtish Library: Taking Liberties Streaming

    Link
    https://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/takingliberties/index.html
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    History, Law, Politics and Government, Social Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download

    This audio and video section is part of a larger, interactive website originally set up to accompany the Taking Liberties exhibition on the 900-year struggle for Britain’s freedoms and rights, held at the British Library in 2008-2009. Although the exhibition is now over, the collection of podcasts, interviews, videos and curator talks will remain available online. A virtual curator presents a series of short videos on key aspects of the Magna Carta, and there are audio recordings of talks given during the exhibition including Professor A.C Grayling on British ‘liberty; Trevor Phillips on equality and human rights in modern Britain; Ken Livingstone in a panel debate about fundamental freedoms in a world of climate change; Nigel Sadler on the Minutes of the Committee for Abolition of the Slave Trade; Polly Toynbee chairing a debate on women’s rights in the 21st century; ; Professor Nicholas Vincent on the Magna Carta; Shami Chakrabarti of Liberty on the dangers of quick-fix legislation; as well as talks on the Human Rights Act 1998, The Wolfenden Report and Paine’s Rights of Man.

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  2. Imperial War Museum Sound and Film Collections Streaming

    Link
    https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
    Subject
    History, Politics and Government, Social Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Archives/Museums, Footage Sources, Information Sources, Streaming/Download

    The Imperial War Museum holds a rich and varied collection of sound, film and video recordings covering twentieth and twenty-first century conflict, from the Boer War to Afghanistan. The website gives access to the catalogue details of over 33,000 sound recordings, primarily oral history interviews recording the memories of civilians and service personnel with regard to their experiences of conflict, but also significant holdings of speeches, sound effects, broadcasts, poetry and music. There are also details of over 23,000 hours of film and video, covering all aspects of conflicts relating to Britain, Commonwealth or former empire countries, as well as reflecting aspects of civilian life in wartime and military life in peacetime. As well as newsreels, these include public and service information films, documentaries and unedited combat film, and amateur films. Over 90,000 items from the collections have digitised images, sound or video that and may be viewed or listened to online. Selected items are also available for loan or sale.

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  3. Harlem Digital Archive Streaming

    Link
    http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/harlemarchive/
    Category
    Social Sciences
    Subject
    Ethnology, History, Social Studies, Social Welfare
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Archives/Museums

    This ongoing projects aims to establish an archive for the audiovisual assets about Harlem located at Columbia University and in Harlem as a whole. The Harlem Digital Archive will be a repository and the source for a wide range of teaching and learning materials that can be deployed in the university classroom setting and more broadly in libraries and museums, online, and in educational television and radio. Currently includes several podcasts and short videos as well. This site links to several elated projects - many related lectures held at Columbia can also be viewed at Harlem\'s Heritage .

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  4. Sociology Central Crime and Deviance Channel Streaming

    Link
    http://www.sociology.org.uk/cc_home.htm
    Category
    Social Sciences
    Subject
    Social Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Courses, Streaming/Download

    The Crime and Deviance Channel is a subscription-only site offering a range of teaching tools (based around four major categories: Text, PowerPoint, Video and Audio resources) that can be integrated into both classroom and VLE-based schemes of work. Channel subscribers gain access to a wide range of resources designed to bring the topic of Crime and Deviance to life in lively and informative ways. The Channel currently contains around 130 minutes of video and 70 minutes of audio material plus extensive text-based and PowerPoint resources. Channel resources are organised around seven key themes that can be accessed from the Channel Menu at any time: Theories of Deviance; Power and Control; Social Distribution of Crime; Globalisation and Crime; Suicide; Research Methods; Exam Bytes.

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  5. StartingUni Streaming

    Link
    http://www.le.ac.uk/beyonddistance/startinguni/
    Category
    Social Sciences
    Subject
    Education, Social Studies
    Medium
    Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Podcasting

    StartingUni.info podcasts are recordings of students talking about their experiences of starting university. It features a range of topics which new students will find useful, such as accommodation, money management, the first few days at university, assessments, etc. Although the recordings are mostly of students studying biological sciences at the University of Leicester, most of what they say will apply to any course at any university.

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  6. Islam Channel Streaming

    Link
    https://www.islamchannel.tv/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
    Subject
    Current Affairs, Politics and Government, Social Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download

    The Islam Channel is the first free-to-air, English language, Islamic-focused television channel available globally via the internet and digital television platforms. It aspires to be an alternative channel that advances unbiased and accurate images of Islam and Muslims and endeavours to bring about cultural understanding and awareness for a peaceful and harmonious co-existence amongst communities

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  7. BBC Archive Streaming

    Link
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Social Sciences
    Subject
    Art, Biology, Economics, History, Media Studies, Medicine, Social Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download, TV/Radio listings

    The site began by concentrating on explaining the holdings and workings of the BBC Archives, using short videos, accompanied by written text, and frequently-asked questions. Separate pages cover different aspects of the Archive and issues relating to them - television, sound, written, photographic, contributor rights, preservation and cataloguing, test cards and ceefax, the bits between programmes, and the BBC Heritage Collection. Since 2008 the website has diversified to include themed collections of archival radio and TV programmes (streamed complete or as extracts), documents and photographs. Topics currently featured include the Holocaust, Cuba and the Cold War, Doctor Who, WW2 relations with the USSR, Francis Bacon, the birth of the NHS, survivors of the Titanic, and working class life. Also available are the complete series of David Atttenborough’s 1956 ZOO QUEST FOR A DRAGON and MEN AND MONEY (1964), and the first BBC colour series from 1957, WHAT WE WORE, on the history of fashion. The front Archive page also links to other sections of the BBC website that host archival collections - IN OUR TIME, Radio 3 World Music Archive, WOMAN’S HOUR, World Service Archive, and clips from PLANET EARTH and AUTUMNWATCH in the Wildlife Finder.

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  8. The British Monarchy Streaming

    Link
    https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRoyalChannel
    Category
    Social Sciences
    Subject
    History, Media Studies, Social Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Streaming/Download

    Her Majesty the Queen has launched a Youtube channel to get her message to a global audience. The site streams her latest Christmas message, as well as the first one, broadcast in 1957, and other short films showing day-to day life and duties of members of the royal family. Archive footage includes the Queen Mother’s wedding and ROSES FOR THE ROSE QUEEN 1917 - silent newsreel footage featuring Queen Alexandra’s West End tour among the rose-sellers.

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  9. EUtube on Youtube Streaming

    Link
    https://www.youtube.com/user/eutube
    Category
    Social Sciences
    Subject
    Economics, Geography, Politics and Government, Social Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Streaming/Download

    The YouTube space of the European Union, showing videos on EU policies and initiatives.

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  10. RSA: Vision Streaming

    Link
    https://www.thersa.org/events/video
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
    Subject
    Business Studies, Design, Economics, Education, Politics and Government, Religious Studies, Social Studies, Technology
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Archives/Museums, Podcasting, Streaming/Download

    The RSA (Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce) works to remove the barriers to social progress. It drives ideas, innovation and social change through an ambitious programme of projects, events and lectures. These lectures, available as live webcasts, streamed video or audio, and podcasts, feature some of the world’s most influencial thinkers such as Steven Pinker, and cover a wide range of topics such as whether scientists get the media they deserve, the science of persuasion, secularism, and restructuring the global economy for a sustainable future. There is also a series of podcast interviews with Royal Designers. A particularly notable new addition is the ingenious RSA Animate series, which includes animated interpretations of essays from the likes of Philip Zimbardo, Jeremy Rifkin and Barbara Ehrenreich.

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