Videos, stills, texts and audio from European broadcasters and audiovisual archives.
Films on DemandThis link opens in a new windowStreaming educational videos in a broad range of subjects, from health and medicine to humanities and social sciences.
Collection ranges from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts.
Kanopy StreamingThis link opens in a new windowStreaming educational films and documentaries and includes PBS series and Criterion Collection films. See a list of current Kenyon licenses.
Naxos Video LibraryThis link opens in a new windowStreaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries. Access is limited to 5 simultaneous users at a time. To create playlists, contact the reference desk to obtain login credentials.
Socialism on FilmThis link opens in a new windowCollection of documentary films, features, and newsreels showing life behind the Iron Curtain, as seen by filmmakers from the USSR, Vietnam, Cuba, China, East Germany, Eastern Europe and more. The films illuminate how socialist countries saw themselves and the world around them during the major political & social events of the time.
Alinari ArchivesThis link opens in a new windowPhoto library that includes 5.5 million images documenting the history, culture, customs, society, art, architecture, industry and landscape of both Italy and the world, from mid-800 to the present (available in English or Italian).
Oxford Art OnlineThis link opens in a new windowScholarly art encyclopedia covering global art and architecture from prehistory to present, with entries on artists, architects, craftsmen, patrons, movements, locations, and periods, as well as scholarly articles and bibliographies.
RIBApixWorld architecture of all periods together with related subjects such as interior design, landscape, topography, planning, construction and the decorative arts.
Wellcome ImagesWellcome Images is one of the world's richest and most unique collections, with themes ranging from medical and social history to contemporary healthcare and biomedical science.
All our images are available on demand in digital form. Search online or use the expertise of our professional scientific and historical researchers.
Whether it's medicine or magic, the sacred or the profane, science or satire - you'll find more than you expect.
This unrivalled collection contains historical images from the Wellcome Library collections, Tibetan Buddhist paintings, ancient Sanskrit manuscripts written on palm leaves, beautifully illuminated Persian books and much more.
The Biomedical Collection holds over 40 000 high-quality images from the clinical and biomedical sciences. Selected from the UK's leading teaching hospitals and research institutions, it covers disease, surgery, general healthcare, sciences from genetics to neuroscience including the full range of imaging techniques.
Audio Archive (Internet Archive)Collection ranges from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings.
Ethnomusicology: Global Field RecordingsThis link opens in a new windowIncludes audio recordings, videos, field notebooks and journals documenting musical traditions and how music interacts with different societies and cultures all over the globe.
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IPA SourceThis link opens in a new windowTranscriptions and translations of opera arias and art song texts
Naxos Music LibraryThis link opens in a new windowStreaming classical music library. Access is limited to 5 simultaneous users at a time. To create playlists, contact the reference desk to obtain login credentials.
Ad*AccessOver 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955.
Advertising America ArchiveThis link opens in a new windowPrimary source papers, from the J. Walter Thompson advertising firm archive, that reveal many aspects of twentieth-century cultural, social, business, marketing, consumer and economic history.
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AdViewsThousands of television commercials created or collected by the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) advertising agency, dated 1950s - 1980s.
Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920Over 2,800 advertising items and publications dating from 1850 to 1920, illustrating the rise of consumer culture and the birth of a professionalized advertising industry in the United States.
Medicine and Madison AvenueOver 600 advertising items and publications dating from 1850 to 1920, illustrating the rise of consumer culture and the birth of a professionalized advertising industry in the United States.