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- Link
- https://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk/search-results?key=WnsiUCI6eyJjb2xsZWN0aW9uIjoiRmlsbSBDb2xsZWN0aW9uIn19&WINID=1569504061134
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, History
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
The LMA is a public research centre that specialises in the history of London. The film collection explores different aspects of London life including its architecture, people, open spaces, events and even civic administration. The films showcase events such as the Lord Mayor’s Show, people such as Charles Dickens and Florence Nightingale, and engineering feats such as the Barbican and Hammersmith Flyover. The earliest films in the online collection date back to 1929; the latest to 1984.
Other 
Online 
Moving image
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- Link
- https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/collection/victorian-film
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, History, Media Studies, Social Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
An excellent selection of films made over the last years of Queen Victoria’s reign which show how filmmaking was transformed from the pursuit of a handful of showmen, chemists and amateur enthusiasts into a dynamic industry, and from fairground novelty into the greatest entertainment of the age. The films, available for free via the BFI PLayer, have been organised into eight categories: Inventing Film Language, Victoria’s New Media Pioneers, Victorian Entertainment, England Expects, Pomp and Circumstance, The Victorian Street and Victorian Mysteries.
Other Online Moving image
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- Link
- https://www.essexarchivesonline.co.uk
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- History, Photography, Social Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
This is the catalogue for the Essex Record Office, which holds not only documents, maps and photographs but also sound recordings and videos. The collections cover oral history; selected items from BBC Essex radio; selections from local hospital TV and talking newspapers; videos of local interest, including many from the East Anglian Film Archive; dialect recordings; and recordings of music performed by local musicians, including a major collection of folk music and folk dance drawn from Essex sources. The site also offers well-produced user guidelines to four registers: family, house, vehicles and electoral rolls. Official registers are excellent avenues into researching many aspects of local history and culture but their records can sometimes be difficult to understand, so the tips on how to search and how to make sense of the results are very useful. The advanced search tool can be used to narrow results to one type of material only (e.g. audiovisual). To watch the moving image and sound holdings an account needs to be created, and registration is free.
Other Online Moving image 
Audio
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- Link
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004t1hd
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- History
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download
A BBC World Service series in which people who lived through moments of history bring a personal perspective to world events. The content is organised into four categories. Episodes available now: this includes over 2,400 programmes of ten minutes each; Podcasts: here the programmes are grouped into Archives which date back to 2010; Collections, which are organised thematically and currently include Iranian History; Black History; African History; Women in History; Soviet History; World War One and Two; Scientific History, Animals Who Made History; Indian History; Cuban History and the Vietnam War; Films, which contains over 250-four-minute clips. The content is truly extraordinary. Some treasures include: South Africa’s first free elections, How organic farming started, the Jamaican Slave rebellion of 1831, The First Digitally-Animated Feature Film, Gays and Lesbians and the British Miners’ Strike, The First Heart Transplant and The First Alzheimer’s Patient.
Other Online Moving image Audio
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- Link
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00srz5b
- Category
- Science and Technology
- Subject
- History, Mathematics
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Is mathematics the driving force behind modern science? In this BBC podcast series, Professor Marcus du Sautoy shows how mathematic finds a role in the real world. For example, an astronaut and an investment analyst explain the power of calculus; in another episode, it is explained how a solution to an eighteenth century mathematical conundrum paved the way to the search engines we use in internet. Each episode lasts 15 minutes and they are available indefinitely.
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- Link
- https://www.exploratorium.edu
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Art, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, General Science, History, Mathematics, Nature, Physics, Technology
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download, Web Links
A public learning laboratory, The Exploratorium, is devoted to just that: exploring the world through science, art and human perception. Their mission is ‘to create inquiry-based experiences that transform learning worldwide’ and perhaps more importantly their vision is ‘a world where people think for themselves and can confidently ask questions, question answers, and understand the world around them’. The museum makes available a vast range of, video programmes, organised by subjects, including: Arts (532 videos), Astronomy and Space (220), Biology (331), Chemistry (97), History (35), Mathematics (19), Nature of Science (13), Perception (55), Physics (215), and Social Science (575). There is also a Websites section with over 35, 000 pages of content, which can be explored by subject too.
Other 
Record only
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- Link
- https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/collection/disabled-britain-on-film
- Subject
- Film Studies, History, Media Studies, Social Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
A free collection of over 170 films on BFI Player exploring the representation of disabled people in film over the last century from across the UK. Highlights include: Artificial Limbs (1916), Zero Hour (1928), Y Gwr O Gwr Yr Aran (1978), Ian Dury (1983), Hands Solo (2009), Trapped Rhythms (2016) and The Maske (2017). The collection has been grouped into five themes: Care or Cure?, Body Politic, Fundraising and Charity, Up Close and Personal, and Nothing About Us Without Us.
Other Online Moving image
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- Link
- https://www.parcast.com/history/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- History
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Entertaining podcast which aims to bring history to life by telling unexpected anecdotes, describing the real personalities behind big names, and examining each individual’s lasting impact on the world. Remarkable lives covered so far include, among others, Albert Einstein, Marco Polo, Leonardo Davinci, Karl Marx, Marie Curie, Copernicus, Adam Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Galileo, Thomas Edison, Frida Khalo, Robin Williams and Gregor Mendel. New episodes are added every other Wednesday, with each typically lasting between 45 and 60 minutes.
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- Link
- https://workingclasshistory.com/category/podcast/
- Category
- Social Sciences
- Subject
- American Studies, History, Politics and Government, Social Studies, Women’s Studies
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download, Web Links
Who makes History? This resource, launched in 2014, is dedicated to recording and popularising people’s history, that is, the history of ‘everyday women, men, people of colour, migrants, indigenous people, LGTB people, disabled people, workers, the unemployed, housewives and single mothers, as opposed to the history of rich and powerful individuals, kings, queens and politicians’. The collection of podcasts presented here tell the stories of past struggles which still resonate today. Each episode has a ‘Footnotes’ section, which offers links to relevant resources including short videos, articles written at the time, and websites. Events covered so far are: the Grunwick strike of East African and Asian women workers in London 1976-8; The Angry Brigade, Britain’s first urban guerrilla group; Anti-Nazi youth movements in World War II; Workmates: organising with agency workers on London Underground; Industrial Workers of the World in the US, 1905-1918 and 1918-1950s; The West Virginia mine Wars, 1902-1922; The Vietnam War strike wave; Spanish Civil War; The League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit; Women in the Miners strike; Peterloo massacre with Mike Leigh; Women in the early IWW (Industrial Workers of the World Union).
Other Record only
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- Link
- http://cottonfaminepoetry.exeter.ac.uk/database/index.html
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- History, Literature
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums
This is a unique database of poems written in response to the Lancashire Cotton Famine of 1861-65. Many of the poems are by the mill workers most affected by the famine and are written in the Lancashire dialect. The poems, published by the local newspapers of that time, are presented here with a commentary, audio recitations and musical performances which draw directly from them. This is an ongoing project of special interest for literary scholars and historians. There are some 100 poems collated so far, of which some are of a high quality, according to Dr Simon Rennie. For example, a Work, Lads, and Think by wool sorter Williffe Cunliam. The database can be searched by date, publisher and place of publication.
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