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National Digital and Media Archives
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British Pathe Archive
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Northern accents on t'net
Collect Britain www.collectbritain.co.uk
British Library launches a right gradely website with sound recordings of Northern English accents and dialects - but fear not those of you in Midlands the far East, the deep South and West your chance is on the way....there'll be 100,000 images and 300 hours of recordings by September 2004 covering all regions in England.
Football to farming, shipbuilding, steelwork, mining and much more, the interviewees discuss a huge array of subjects. They reflect not only ways of speaking but also ways of life that have changed forever, making the site a treasure trove of local and social history.
Jonathan Robinson, Curator of English Accents and Dialects at the British Library Sound Archive, said: "The way people speak in Northern England has changed over the last half a century. Contrary to popular belief, there is still an incredible amount of regional diversity and the recordings on this website illustrate elements both of continuity and of change. It has all been made possible by the fact that the British Library's oral history holdings include two wonderful collections - the Survey of English Dialects, recorded by Leeds University in the 1950s and the Millennium Memory Bank, recorded by the BBC in 1998/9."
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ITN Archives
www.itnarchive.com
As well as the British Pathe archive the ITN archive holds resources from Reuters, ITN, Channel 4 Archive, Empire News, Universal News, British Paramount, Gaumont British, Gaumont Graphic, VISNEWS, Tinseltown Entertainment, Airtime Television News, Sam Silver, Images of War and Open Media. This is the world’s largest news archive and is used for research, news and media producers all around the globe. Provides commercial services.
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The National Archives
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
The National Archives are a new organisation launched in April 2003. It has one of the largest archival collections in the world, spanning 1000 years of British history, from Domesday Book to government papers recently released to the public. You can see this collection at Kew, West London, or view certain documents online. The National Archives also advises people on the location of non-public records and manuscripts relating to British history. Includes The Public Record Office (PRO) and the Historical Manuscripts Commission (HMC) Almost all references on this site to the Public Record Office should now be taken to read The National Archives.
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Public Record Office
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The Learning Curve
http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk
The Learning Curve is an on-line teaching resource, structured to tie in with the History National Curriculum from Key Stages 2 to 5. The Learning Curve contains a varied range of original sources including documents, photographs, film and sound recordings. Created and maintained by the Public Record Office (PRO).
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The Moving Image Gateway
http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/gateway/
The Moving Image Gateway (MIG) is a new service that collects together websites that relate to moving images and sound and their use in higher and further education.
The sites are classified by academic discipline, some forty subjects from Agriculture to Women's Studies, collected within the four main categories of Arts & Humanities, Bio-Medical, Social Sciences and Science & Technology. Each site has been evaluated and described by the BUFVC's Information Service, which regularly checks and updates the database. Sites are highlighted which have video or audio streaming. There are some 600 sites on the MIG database at present, and it continues to grow at the rate of ten per month.
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The Film Archive Forum
http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/faf/
See Regional Archives
The Film Archive Forum represents all of the public sector film and television archives which care for the UK's moving image heritage. Its members include the BFI's National Film and Television Archive, the Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive, the Scottish Screen Archive, the National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales, and the eight English regional film archives. The Forum represents the UK's public sector moving image archives in all archival aspects of the moving image, and acts as the advisory body on national moving image archive policy.
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The Aerial Reconnaissance Archives
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