LibGuides: Audiovisual resources: Other audiovisual resources

Archival Sound Recordings (British Library) This link opens in a new window
Online sound archives from the British Library, including music, interviews, oral history, radio recordings, field recordings.

BBC Podcasts
Podcast directory
BBC Sound Effects
Archive of over 33,000 sound clips from the BBC from the past 100 years.

Box of Broadcasts This link opens in a new window
Box of Broadcasts provides access to over 2.2 million TV and radio broadcasts from over 75 channels, including most of the UK’s freeview network, all BBC TV and radio content from 2007, and several foreign language channels. This resource is not available outside the UK.
Read our blog post for useful tips about using this resource.

BUFVC Gateway
Over 2,000 websites relating to moving image and sound materials, arranged by subject area.
CHARM - 78rpms
5,000 sound recordings of 78rpm discs from the 'Musicians of Britain and Ireland 1900-1950' project.
Freesound
Collaborative database of Creative Commons-licensed sounds.
Google podcasts
Podcast directory
Independent Radio Archives
Archives of independent local radio from 1973-1996 held at Bournemouth University.
National Jukebox
Thousands of historical sound recordings from the US Library of Congress.
Radio Garden
Project to enable users to listen to local radio stations around the world as they broadcast.

LGBTQ oral history group
Special interest group of the UK Oral History Society, recording, preserving and celebrating the lives and experiences of LGBTQ people.
Oral history collections from the British Library
Overview of oral history recordings on various themes from the British Library sound archive (some are available online)
Oral history society
Includes advice, events and special interest groups.
World Bank oral histories
Oral histories from 1961 to the present. Can search by country.

Archive of Digital Art
Has been documenting the rapidly evolving field of digital installation art for more than a decade.
Luxonline
Resource for exploring British film and video artists. Includes video clips, articles and biographies.
Live Art Development Agency resources
Links to useful research resources, including library catalogue, online screenings, audio resources and research guides.
UbuWeb
UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts. It hosts a wide range of texts and audiovisual materials.
Open Game Art
Provides a variety of high quality, freely licensed art for use by free/open source game developers.

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